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These are lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents.


Main lists

* List of nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents * List of nuclear and radiation accidents by death toll * List of civilian nuclear accidents * List of civilian radiation accidents * List of criticality accidents and incidents * List of nuclear meltdown accidents * List of military nuclear accidents * List of orphan source incidents * List of Chernobyl-related articles * List of articles about the Three Mile Island accident * List of crimes involving radioactive substances


Lists by country

* 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

* 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 The Fukushima nuclear accident was a major nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima, Japan, which began on 11 March 2011. The cause of the accident was the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, which r ...
* 2001 Instituto Oncologico Nacional radiotherapy accident * 2000 Samut Prakan radiation accident, Thailand.Pallava Bagla. "Radiation Accident a 'Wake-Up Call' For India's Scientific Community", ''Science'', Vol. 328, 7 May 2010, p. 679. * 1999 and 1997 Tokaimura nuclear accidents * 1996 San Juan de Dios radiotherapy accident * 1994 Theft of radioactive material in Tammiku, Estonia. * 1993 Tomsk-7 accident at the Reprocessing Complex in Seversk, Russia, when a tank exploded while being cleaned with nitric
acid An acid is a molecule or ion capable of either donating a proton (i.e. Hydron, hydrogen cation, H+), known as a Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory, Brønsted–Lowry acid, or forming a covalent bond with an electron pair, known as a Lewis ...
. The explosion released a cloud of radioactive gas (INES level 4).Timeline: Nuclear plant accidents
BBC News, 11 July 2006. * 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. * 1980 Houston radiotherapy accident. * 1979 Church Rock uranium mill spill * 1979 Three Mile Island accident and Three Mile Island accident health effects * 1974–1976 Columbus radiotherapy accident. * 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 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 The Rocky Flats Plant, a former United States nuclear weapons production facility located about northwest of Denver, Colorado, Denver, caused radioactive (primarily plutonium, americium, and uranium) contamination within and outside its boundaries ...
* Techa River * Pollution of Lake Karachay * 1945 and 1946 Demon core * 1942 Leipzig L-IV experiment accident


See also

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Nuclear safety and security Nuclear safety is defined by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as "The achievement of proper operating conditions, prevention of accidents or mitigation of accident consequences, resulting in protection of workers, the public and the ...
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Nuclear fallout Nuclear fallout is residual radioactive material that is created by the reactions producing a nuclear explosion. It is initially present in the mushroom cloud, radioactive cloud created by the explosion, and "falls out" of the cloud as it is ...
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List of books about nuclear issues A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ways, including existing only in the mind of the list-maker, bu ...
* List of films about nuclear issues * Vulnerability of nuclear facilities to attack * United States military nuclear incident terminology * International Nuclear Event Scale * Atomic spies * Nuclear terrorism * List of hydroelectric power station failures * List of industrial disasters * List of environmental disasters


References


External links


Radiation exposures in accidents - Annex C of UNSCEAR 2008 Report (Comprehensive list of accidents with details)
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