Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents
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These are lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents.
- List of civilian nuclear accidents
- List of civilian nuclear incidents
- List of civilian radiation accidents
- List of crimes involving radioactive substances
- List of military nuclear accidents
- List of nuclear and radiation accidentsNuclear and radiation accidentsA nuclear and radiation accident is defined by the International Atomic Energy Agency as "an event that has led to significant consequences to people, the environment or the facility...
- List of nuclear and radiation accidents by death tollNuclear and radiation accidents by death tollThere have been more than 20 nuclear and radiation accidents involving fatalities. These involved nuclear power plant accidents, nuclear submarine accidents, radiotherapy accidents, and other mishaps.-Chernobyl disaster:...
- List of nuclear tests
- List of sunken nuclear submarines
Lists by country
- List of nuclear and radiation accidents by countryNuclear and radiation accidents by countryThis is a List of nuclear and radiation accidents by country.This list only reports the proximate confirmed human deaths and does not go into detail about ecological, environmental or long term effects such as birth defects or permanent loss of habitable land.-Brazil:*September 13, 1987 – Goiania...
- List of nuclear power accidents by country
- List of nuclear reactors by country
Notable
- List of 2011 Japanese nuclear accidents
- List of Chernobyl-related articles
- List of articles about Three Mile Island
- K-19 nuclear accident
- Kyshtym disasterKyshtym disasterThe Kyshtym disaster was a radiation contamination incident that occurred on 29 September 1957 at Mayak, a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Russia...
- Windscale fireWindscale fireThe Windscale fire of 10 October 1957 was the worst nuclear accident in Great Britain's history, ranked in severity at level 5 on the 7-point International Nuclear Event Scale. The two piles had been hurriedly built as part of the British atomic bomb project. Windscale Pile No. 1 was operational in...
- Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and NagasakiAtomic bombings of Hiroshima and NagasakiDuring the final stages of World War II in 1945, the United States conducted two atomic bombings against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, the first on August 6, 1945, and the second on August 9, 1945. These two events are the only use of nuclear weapons in war to date.For six months...
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
- United States military nuclear incident terminologyUnited States military nuclear incident terminologyThe United States Armed Forces uses a number of terms to define the magnitude and extent of nuclear incidents.-Origin:United States Department of Defense directive 5230.16, Nuclear Accident and Incident Public Affairs Guidance, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Manual 3150.03B Joint Reporting...
- International Nuclear Event ScaleInternational Nuclear Event ScaleThe International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale was introduced in 1990 by the International Atomic Energy Agency in order to enable prompt communication of safety significance information in case of nuclear accidents....