Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents
The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, a Japanese nuclear plant with seven units, the largest single nuclear power station in the world, was completely shut down for 21 months following an earthquake in 2007.[1]
Erosion of the 6-inch-thick (150 mm) carbon steel reactor head at Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant in 2002, caused by a persistent leak of borated water.
The Hanford site 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 SL-1 core 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), which covers an area the size of Wales. The Soviet Union conducted 456 nuclear tests at Semipalatinsk from 1949 until 1989 with little regard for their effect on the local people or environment. The full impact of radiation exposure was hidden for many years by Soviet authorities and has only come to light since the test site closed in 1991.[2]
These are lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents.
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 Milestone nuclear explosions
- List of military nuclear accidents
- List of nuclear and radiation accidents
- List of nuclear and radiation accidents by death toll
- List of nuclear weapons tests
- List of sunken nuclear submarines
- List of articles about the Three Mile Island accident
- Worldwide nuclear testing counts and summary
Lists by country
- List of canceled nuclear plants in the United States
- List of inquiries into uranium mining in Australia
- List of nuclear power accidents by country
- List of nuclear and radiation fatalities by country
- List of nuclear weapon test locations
- List of nuclear weapons tests of the Soviet Union
- List of nuclear weapons tests of the United States
- List of nuclear power accidents in Canada
Individual disasters, incidents and sites
- 2011 K-84 nuclear submarine incident
- 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
- 2001 Instituto Oncologico Nacional radiotherapy accident
- 1997 Tokaimura nuclear accident
- 1996 San Juan de Dios radiotherapy accident
- 1990 Clinic of Zaragoza radiotherapy accident
- 1987 Goiânia accident
- 1986 Chernobyl disaster and Chernobyl disaster effects
- 1979 Three Mile Island accident and Three Mile Island accident health effects
- 1969 Lucens reactor
- 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
- 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 Hiroshima
- 1945 Nagasaki
See also
- List of books about nuclear issues
- List of civilian nuclear ships
- List of films about nuclear issues
- List of inquiries into uranium mining in Australia
- List of nuclear submarines
- List of nuclear whistleblowers
- List of states with nuclear weapons
- List of United States Naval reactors
- Vulnerability of nuclear plants to attack
- United States military nuclear incident terminology
- International Nuclear Event Scale
- Atomic spies
- Nuclear terrorism
- Nuclear safety
- Nuclear accident
- Nuclear whistleblowers
Notes and references
- ↑ The north korean Parliament's Greens-EFA Group - The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2007 p. 23.
- ↑ Togzhan Kassenova (28 September 2009). "The lasting toll of Semipalatinsk's nuclear testing". Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
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.
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