Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents

These are lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents.

Main lists

• List of articles about the Three Mile Island accident
• 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 military nuclear accidents
• List of nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents
• List of nuclear and radiation accidents by death toll
• List of nuclear meltdown accidents
• List of orphan source incidents

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
• 2010 Mayapuri radiological accident
• 2007 Radioactive leakage in C.N. Ascó I (Ascó - Tarragona)
• 2004 Mihama Nuclear Power Plant accident
• 2001 Instituto Oncologico Nacional radiotherapy accident
• 2000 Samut Prakan radiation accident, Thailand.
• 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. The explosion released a cloud of radioactive gas (INES level 4).
• 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
• 1984 Radiation accident in Morocco
• 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
• 1962 Radiation accident in Mexico City
• 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
• Techa River
• Pollution of Lake Karachay
• 1945 and 1946 Demon core
• 1942 Leipzig L-IV experiment accident

See also

• Atomic spies
• International Nuclear Event Scale
• List of books about nuclear issues
• List of environmental disasters
• List of films about nuclear issues
• List of hydroelectric power station failures
• List of industrial disasters
• Nuclear fallout
• Nuclear safety and security
• Nuclear terrorism
• United States military nuclear incident terminology
• Vulnerability of nuclear facilities to attack

References

External links

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