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August 2000 -March 2001 - [[Instituto Oncologico Nacional]] of [[Panama]], ; 17 patients receiving treatment for prostate cancer and cancer of the cervix receive lethal doses of radiation.<ref>[http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1114_scr.pdf Investigation of an accidental Exposure of radiotherapy patients in Panama - International Atomic Energy Agency]</ref><ref name=johnston2007/> |
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Revision as of 01:23, 17 January 2011
This is a List of nuclear and radiation accidents by country.
This list has only reported the proximate confirmed human deaths and has does not detailed ecological, environmental or long term effects such as birth defects or permanent loss of habitable land.
Brazil
- September 13, 1987 – Goiania accident. Four fatalities and 249 other people received serious radiation contamination.[1]
Costa Rica
- 1996 – Radiotherapy accident in Costa Rica. Thirteen fatalities and 114 other patients received an overdose of radiation.[2]
Greenland
India
- April 2010 - Mayapuri radiological accident, India, one fatality.[4]
Japan
- March 1, 1954 – Daigo Fukuryū Maru, one fatality.
- September 30, 1999 – Tokaimura nuclear accident, nuclear fuel reprocessing plant, two fatalities.[5]
- August 9, 2004 – Mihama Nuclear Power Plant accident. Hot water and steam leaked from a broken pipe. The accident is the worst nuclear disaster of Japan, excluding Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Five fatalities.[5]
Mexico
- 1962 – Radiation accident in Mexico City, four fatalities.
Morocco
- March 1984 – Radiation accident in Morocco, eight fatalities.[6]
Panama
August 2000 -March 2001 - Instituto Oncologico Nacional of Panama, ; 17 patients receiving treatment for prostate cancer and cancer of the cervix receive lethal doses of radiation.[7][8]
Soviet Union
- 29 September 1957 – Mayak nuclear waste storage tank explosion at Chelyabinsk. Two hundred plus fatalities and this figure is a conservative estimate; 270,000 people were exposed to dangerous radiation levels. Over thirty small communities had been removed from Soviet maps between 1958 and 1991.[9] (INES level 6).[10]
- July 4, 1961 – Soviet submarine K-19 accident. Eight fatalities and more than 30 people were over-exposed to radiation.[11]
- May 24, 1968 - Soviet submarine K-27 accident. Nine fatalities and 83 people were injured.[8]
- 5 October 1982 - Lost radiation source, Baku, Azerbaidjan, USSR. Five fatalities and 13 injuries.[8]
- August 10, 1985 – Soviet submarine K-431 accident. Ten fatalities and 49 other people suffered radiation injuries.[12]
- 6 April 1993 - accident at the Tomsk-7 Reprocessing Complex, when a tank exploded while being cleaned with nitric acid. The explosion released a cloud of radioactive gas (INES level 4).[10]
Spain
- 1966 Palomares B-52 crash.[13]
- December 1990 – Radiotherapy accident in Zaragoza. Eleven fatalities and 27 other patients were injured.[11]
Thailand
- February 2000 - Three deaths and ten injuries resulted in Samut Prakarn when a radiation-therapy unit was dismantled.[4]
Ukraine
- April 26, 1986 – Chernobyl disaster. Fifty-six direct deaths (47 accident workers, and nine children with thyroid cancer), and it is estimated that there were 4,000 extra cancer deaths among the approximately 600,000 most highly exposed people.[14][15][16]
United Kingdom
- October 8, 1957 - Windscale fire ignites plutonium piles and contaminates surrounding dairy farms, 33 cancer deaths.[17][18][17]
United States
- August 21, 1945 – Harry K. Daghlian, Jr died at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
- May 21, 1946 – Louis Slotin died.
- 1961 – (US Army) SL-1 accident resulted in three fatalities.
- December 18, 1970 - After the Baneberry test at Yucca Flat, radioactive debris vented into the atmosphere, and 86 workers at the site were exposed to radiation.
- 1974-1976 - Columbus radiotherapy accident, 10 deaths and 88 injuries.[19][8]
- 1979 Three Mile Island accident in Pennsylvania. Partial core meltdown, making it the most significant accident in U.S. history. No fatalities.[20]
- 1980 - Houston radiotherapy accident, 7 deaths.[19][8]
- This list is incomplete; please help to expand it.
Nuclear safety
Internationally the International Atomic Energy Agency "works for the safe, secure and peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology."[citation needed] Many nations utilizing nuclear power have special institutions overseeing and regulating nuclear safety.
See also
References
- ^ The Radiological Accident in Goiania p. 2.
- ^ Medical management of radiation accidents pp. 299 & 303.
- ^ Thule Accident, January 21, 1968 TIME magazine.
- ^ a b Pallava Bagla. "Radiation Accident a 'Wake-Up Call' For India's Scientific Community" Science, Vol. 328, 7 May 2010, p. 679.
- ^ a b Benjamin K. Sovacool. A Critical Evaluation of Nuclear Power and Renewable Electricity in Asia, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 40, No. 3, August 2010, p. 399.
- ^ Lost Iridium-192 Source
- ^ Investigation of an accidental Exposure of radiotherapy patients in Panama - International Atomic Energy Agency
- ^ a b c d e Johnston, Robert (September 23, 2007). "Deadliest radiation accidents and other events causing radiation casualties". Database of Radiological Incidents and Related Events.
- ^ Samuel Upton Newtan. Nuclear War I and Other Major Nuclear Disasters of the 20th Century 2007, pp. 237–240.
- ^ a b Timeline: Nuclear plant accidents BBC News, 11 July 2006.
- ^ a b Strengthening the Safety of Radiation Sources p. 14. Cite error: The named reference "rad" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ The Worst Nuclear Disasters
- ^ Palomares Incident, January 17, 1966 TIME magazine.
- ^ "IAEA Report". In Focus: Chernobyl. Retrieved 2008-05-31.
- ^ Benjamin K. Sovacool. The costs of failure: A preliminary assessment of major energy accidents, 1907–2007, Energy Policy 36 (2008), p. 1806.
- ^ Benjamin K. Sovacool. A Critical Evaluation of Nuclear Power and Renewable Electricity in Asia, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 40, No. 3, August 2010, p. 396.
- ^ a b Benjamin K. Sovacool. A Critical Evaluation of Nuclear Power and Renewable Electricity in Asia, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 40, No. 3, August 2010, p. 393.
- ^ Perhaps the Worst, Not the First TIME magazine, May 12, 1986.
- ^ a b 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.
{{cite web}}: Explicit use of et al. in:|author=(help) - ^ Stencel, Mark. "A Nuclear Nightmare in Pennsylvania", The Washington Post, March 27, 1999. Accessed July 5, 2010.
External links
- The Worst Nuclear Disasters TIME magazine