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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 an earthquake in 2007.
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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, USA
, served as a reminder of the necessity for proper reactor practice and safeguards.
The 18,000 km
2
expanse of the
Semipalatinsk Test Site
(indicated in red), in present-day
Kazakhstan
, covers an area
the size of Wales
.
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These are lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents.
Main lists
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List of attacks on nuclear plants
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 nuclear meltdown accidents
List of military nuclear accidents
List of orphan source incidents
List of nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents
List of nuclear and radiation accidents by death toll
List of articles about the Three Mile Island accident
Lists by country
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List of nuclear power accidents by country
List of nuclear and radiation fatalities by country
Individual disasters, incidents and sites
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edit
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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
.
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1999 and 1997
Tokaimura nuclear accidents
1996 San Juan de Dios radiotherapy accident
1994
Theft of radioactive material in Tammiku
,
Estonia
.
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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).
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5
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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
.
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6
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1980 Houston radiotherapy accident.
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1979
Church Rock uranium mill spill
1979
Three Mile Island accident
and
Three Mile Island accident health effects
1974–1976
Columbus radiotherapy accident
.
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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 6300GBq or 2100 person-Sv 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
1950
Desert Rock exercises
Bikini Atoll
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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Nuclear fallout
Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents
List of books about nuclear issues
List of civilian nuclear ships
List of films about nuclear issues
Vulnerability of nuclear plants to attack
United States military nuclear incident terminology
International Nuclear Event Scale
Atomic spies
Nuclear terrorism
Nuclear safety and security
Nuclear accident
Nuclear power phase-out
List of hydroelectric power station failures
List of industrial disasters
List of environmental disasters
Portal
:
Nuclear technology
References
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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
.
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Pallava Bagla. "Radiation Accident a 'Wake-Up Call' For India's Scientific Community",
Science
, Vol. 328, 7 May 2010, p. 679.
^
https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/Pub1053_web.pdf
[
bare URL PDF
]
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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
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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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Nuclear and radioactive disasters, former facilities, tests and test sites
Lists of
disasters
and
incidents
Crimes involving radioactive substances
Criticality accidents and incidents
Nuclear meltdown accidents
Military nuclear accidents
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Nuclear and radiation fatalities by country
Nuclear weapons tests
China
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United States
Sunken nuclear submarines
List of orphan source incidents
Nuclear power accidents by country
Individual
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and sites
2019
Nyonoksa radiation accident
2011
Fukushima nuclear accident
2001
Instituto Oncológico Nacional#Accident
1996 San Juan de Dios radiotherapy accident
1990
Clinic of Zaragoza radiotherapy accident
1987
Goiânia accident
1986
Chernobyl disaster
Effects
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1985
Chazhma Bay nuclear accident
1985–1987
Therac-25
accident
1982
Andreev Bay nuclear accident
1980
Kramatorsk radiological accident
1979
Three Mile Island accident
and
Three Mile Island accident health effects
1969
Lucens reactor
1962
Thor missile launch failures at Johnston Atoll
under
Operation Fishbowl
1962
Cuban Missile Crisis
1961
K-19 nuclear accident
1961
SL-1
nuclear meltdown
1957
Kyshtym disaster
1957
Windscale fire
1957
Operation Plumbbob
1954
Totskoye nuclear exercise
Bikini Atoll
Hanford Site
Rocky Flats Plant
1945
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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