Talk:List of civilian radiation accidents

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Would it be appropriate to include here incidents involving high-energy photon or electron sources but no actual radioactive material (e.g., the Therac-25 fatalities)? - Schol-R-LEA, 24 Feb 2006

I would say yes.Cadmium

[edit] Where is Chernobyl???

Why are there some relatively minor incidents included here, but not what is surely 'the' civilian nuclear accident, Chernobyl? BTW, I have checked in the list of military radiation accidents, and it isn't listed there either. WikiReaderer 09:57, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Chernobyl is in the List of civilian nuclear accidents - I've added a link to it in the "See Also" section. This list is only for radiation accidents - which involve release/contamination by radioactive materials, but no actual nuclear reaction. Bobstay 12:45, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Hid it in his room-mate's alarm clock"

I've removed the bit about the columbia university student hiding the uranium he had stolen in his room-mate's alarm clock. On reading the source article, it seems the search team found the only radiation in the room was coming from the alarm clock - but doesn't say anything about the student having hidden the uranium there. I'm guessing the alarm clock had radium paint on the markings on its face - which would fit as these students were collecting chemicals and simialar materials for their "anarchist" experiments. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobstay (talk • contribs) 13:02, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Format proposal

I would like to propose a format change for the entries. I recently reformatted the List of civilian nuclear accidents and I think it works well. Proposed format:

month day, year - location - type of accident

• Description of the accident and related information. Description of the significant health effects, property damage or contamination that occurred. Description of response to the accident.

Instead of a wall of text the reader sees discreet entries with the most pertinent information presented up front. I am making a identical proposal for the List of military nuclear accidents since these articles are all on a very similar subject.Nailedtooth 00:29, 5 October 2007 (UTC)