Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Tasirin haɗarin nukiliya ya kasance batun muhawara tun lokacin da aka gina na'urorin nukiliya na farko a 1954 kuma ya kasance babban mahimmin abu a cikin damuwa na jama'a game da wuraren nukiliya. An ɗauki matakan fasaha don rage haɗarin haɗari ko don rage adadin radiyo da aka saki zuwa muhalli, duk da haka kuskuren ɗan adam ya kasance, kuma "akwai haɗari da yawa tare da tasiri daban-daban da kuma kusan haɗari da haɗari". Tun daga shekarar 2014, an sami hatsarori da abubuwan da suka faru na nukiliya fiye da 100 daga amfani da makamashin nukiliya. Hatsari guda hamsin da bakwai ko kuma mummunan hadari sun faru tun bayan bala'in Chernobyl, kuma kimanin kashi 60 cikin dari na dukkan hadari da ke da alaka da nukiliya / mummunan hadari sun faru a Amurka. Babban haɗarin tashar wutar lantarki ta nukiliya sun haɗa da bala'in nukiliya na Fukushima Daiichi (2011), bala'in Chernobyl (1986), da haɗarin Tsibirin Mile Uku
(1979), da kuma hadarin SL-1 (1961). Hatsarin makamashin nukiliya na iya haifar da asarar rayuka da kuma tsadar kuɗi don aikin gyara.