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The Windscale fire resulted when uranium metal fuel ignited inside plutonium production piles; surrounding dairy farms were contaminated. [33] [34] The severity of the incident was covered up at the time by the UK government, as Prime Minister Harold Macmillan feared that it would harm British nuclear relations with America, and so original reports on the disaster and its health impacts were ...
A nuclear and radiation accident is defined by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as "an event that has led to significant consequences to people, the environment or the facility." Examples include lethal effects to individuals , large radioactivity release to the environment, or a reactor core melt . [ 6 ]
This resulted in three deaths and affected 100+ people. A woman was exposed to radiation while nursing her sick husband. Her dose was estimated to be 2.3 Gy by means of a blood test 41 days after the accident, 16 years after the accident the woman has been subject to premature aging which may be a result of her radiation exposure.
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; 2001 Instituto Oncologico Nacional radiotherapy accident; 2000 Samut Prakan radiation accident, Thailand. [3] 1999 and 1997 Tokaimura nuclear accidents
September 30, 1999 – Tokaimura nuclear accident, nuclear fuel reprocessing plant, two fatalities. [9] August 9, 2004 – Mihama Nuclear Power Plant accident. Hot water and steam leaked from a broken pipe. The accident was the worst nuclear disaster of Japan up until that time, excluding Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Five fatalities. [9]
Globally, there have been at least 99 (civilian and military) recorded nuclear power plant accidents from 1952 to 2009 (defined as incidents that either resulted in the loss of human life or more than US$50,000 of property damage, the amount the US federal government uses to define nuclear energy accidents that must be reported), totaling US$20.5 billion in property damages.
The Kyshtym disaster, sometimes referred to as the Mayak disaster or Ozyorsk disaster in newer sources, was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on 29 September 1957 at Mayak, a plutonium production site for nuclear weapons and nuclear fuel reprocessing plant located in the closed city of Chelyabinsk-40 (now Ozyorsk) in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
List of civilian radiation accidents; List of nuclear and radiation accidents by death toll; Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents; Robert Peter Gale; List of nuclear and radiation fatalities by country