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Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents
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These are lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents.
Main lists
[edit]- List of articles about the Three Mile Island accident
- List of Chernobyl-related articles
- List of civilian nuclear accidents
- List of civilian radiation accidents
- List of crimes involving radioactive substances
- List of criticality accidents and incidents
- List of military nuclear accidents
- List of nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents
- List of nuclear and radiation accidents by death toll
- List of nuclear meltdown accidents
- List of orphan source incidents
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![The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, the world's largest single nuclear power station, was completely shut down for 21 months following the 2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake.[1]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Kashiwazaki_Kariwa-April_2011.jpg/250px-Kashiwazaki_Kariwa-April_2011.jpg)
The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, the world's largest single nuclear power station, was completely shut down for 21 months following the 2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake.[1] -
Erosion of the 150-millimetre-thick (5.9 in) carbon steel reactor head at Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant, in Oak Harbor, Ohio, USA, in 2002, caused by a persistent leak of borated water -
The Hanford Site, in Benton County, Washington, USA, represents two-thirds of America's high-level radioactive waste by volume. Nuclear reactors line the riverbank at the Hanford Site along the Columbia River in January 1960. -
This image of the core from the SL-1 disaster, Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States, served as a reminder of the necessity for proper reactor practice and safeguards. -
![The 18,000 km2 expanse of the Semipalatinsk Test Site (indicated in red), in present-day Kazakhstan, covers an area the size of Wales.[2]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Wfm_sts_overview.png/250px-Wfm_sts_overview.png)
The 18,000 km2 expanse of the Semipalatinsk Test Site (indicated in red), in present-day Kazakhstan, covers an area the size of Wales.[2]
![The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, the world's largest single nuclear power station, was completely shut down for 21 months following the 2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake.[1]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kashiwazaki_Kariwa-April_2011.jpg)
![The 18,000 km2 expanse of the Semipalatinsk Test Site (indicated in red), in present-day Kazakhstan, covers an area the size of Wales.[2]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wfm_sts_overview.png)
Lists by country
[edit]- List of nuclear power accidents by country
- Nuclear reactor accidents in the United States
- List of nuclear and radiation fatalities by country
Individual disasters, incidents and sites
[edit]- 2024 Nuclear incident at Khabarovsk, Russia
- 2022–2023 Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant leak
- 2019 Radiation release during explosion and fire at Russian nuclear missile test site
- 2017 Airborne radioactivity increase in Europe in autumn 2017
- 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
- 2001 Instituto Oncologico Nacional radiotherapy accident
- 2000 Samut Prakan radiation accident, Thailand.[3]
- 1999 and 1997 Tokaimura nuclear accidents
- 1996 San Juan de Dios radiotherapy accident
- 1994 Theft of radioactive material in Tammiku, Estonia.[4]
- 1993 Tomsk-7 accident at the Reprocessing Complex in Seversk, Russia, when a tank exploded while being cleaned with nitric acid. The explosion released a cloud of radioactive gas (INES level 4).[5]
- 1990 Clinic of Zaragoza radiotherapy accident
- 1987 Goiânia accident
- 1986 Chernobyl disaster and Effects of the Chernobyl disaster
- 1985 Explosion during refuelling of the K-431 (formerly K-31) submarine
- 1982 Lost radiation source in Baku, Azerbaijan, USSR.[6]
- 1980 Houston radiotherapy accident.[6][7]
- 1979 Church Rock uranium mill spill
- 1979 Three Mile Island accident and Three Mile Island accident health effects
- 1974–1976 Columbus radiotherapy accident.[6][7]
- 1969 Lucens reactor
- 1968 Thule B-52 crash
- 1966 Palomares B-52 crash
- 1964 SNAP 9a satellite releases plutonium over the planet earth, an estimated 630 TBq or 2100 person-Sv[citation needed] of radiation was released.
- 1962 Thor missile launch failures during nuclear weapons testing at Johnston Atoll under Operation Fishbowl
- 1961 SL-1 nuclear meltdown
- 1961 K-19 nuclear accident
- 1959 SRE partial nuclear meltdown at Santa Susana Field Laboratory
- 1958 Mailuu-Suu tailings dam failure
- 1957 Kyshtym disaster
- 1957 Windscale fire
- 1957 Operation Plumbbob
- 1954 Totskoye nuclear exercise
- 1946–1954 Bikini Atoll nuclear tests
- Hanford Site
- Rocky Flats Plant, see also radioactive contamination from the Rocky Flats Plant
- Techa River
- Pollution of Lake Karachay
- 1945 and 1946 Demon core
- 1942 Leipzig L-IV experiment accident
See also
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- Atomic spies
- International Nuclear Event Scale
- List of books about nuclear issues
- List of environmental disasters
- List of films about nuclear issues
- List of hydroelectric power station failures
- List of industrial disasters
- Nuclear fallout
- Nuclear safety and security
- Nuclear terrorism
- United States military nuclear incident terminology
- Vulnerability of nuclear facilities to attack
References
[edit]- ^ The north korean Parliament's Greens-EFA Group - The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2007 Archived 2008-06-25 at the Wayback Machine p. 23.
- ^ Togzhan Kassenova (28 September 2009). "The lasting toll of Semipalatinsk's nuclear testing". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
- ^ Pallava Bagla. "Radiation Accident a 'Wake-Up Call' For India's Scientific Community", Science, Vol. 328, 7 May 2010, p. 679.
- ^ "The radiological accident in Tammiku" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2004-02-18.
- ^ Timeline: Nuclear plant accidents BBC News, 11 July 2006.
- ^ a b c Johnston, Robert (September 23, 2007). "Deadliest radiation accidents and other events causing radiation casualties". Database of Radiological Incidents and Related Events.
- ^ a b Ricks, Robert C.; et al. (2000). "REAC/TS Radiation Accident Registry: Update of Accidents in the United States" (PDF). International Radiation Protection Association. p. 6.
External links
[edit]- Radiation exposures in accidents - Annex C of UNSCEAR 2008 Report (Comprehensive list of accidents with details)
- "The world's worst nuclear power disasters". Power Technology. 7 October 2013.
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