Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents

These are lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents.

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.^[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, USA, 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]

Main lists

• 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

• List of nuclear power accidents by country
• 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
• 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 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

• 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

References

1. 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.
2. Togzhan Kassenova (28 September 2009). "The lasting toll of Semipalatinsk's nuclear testing". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
3. Pallava Bagla. "Radiation Accident a 'Wake-Up Call' For India's Scientific Community", Science, Vol. 328, 7 May 2010, p. 679.
4. https://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/Pub1053_web.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
5. Timeline: Nuclear plant accidents BBC News, 11 July 2006.
6. Johnston, Robert (September 23, 2007). "Deadliest radiation accidents and other events causing radiation casualties". Database of Radiological Incidents and Related Events.
7. 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

• 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.