Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents

These are lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents.

The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant, in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, the world's largest single nuclear power station, was completely shut down for 21 months following the 2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake.^[1]

Erosion of the 150-millimetre-thick (5.9 in) carbon steel reactor head at Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant, in Oak Harbor, Ohio, USA, in 2002, caused by a persistent leak of borated water

The Hanford Site, in Benton County, Washington, USA, 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 core from the SL-1 disaster, Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States, 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), in present-day Kazakhstan, covers an area the size of Wales.^[2]

Main lists

• List of nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents
• List of nuclear and radiation accidents by death toll
• List of civilian nuclear accidents
• List of civilian radiation accidents
• List of criticality accidents and incidents
• List of nuclear meltdown accidents
• List of military nuclear accidents
• List of orphan source incidents
• List of Chernobyl-related articles
• List of articles about the Three Mile Island accident
• List of crimes involving radioactive substances

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
• 2001 Instituto Oncologico Nacional radiotherapy accident
• 2000 Samut Prakan radiation accident, Thailand.^[3]
• 1999 and 1997 Tokaimura nuclear accidents
• 1996 San Juan de Dios radiotherapy accident
• 1994 Theft of radioactive material in Tammiku, Estonia.^[4]
• 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).^[5]
• 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
• 1982 Lost radiation source in Baku, Azerbaijan, USSR.^[6]
• 1980 Houston radiotherapy accident.^[6][7]
• 1979 Church Rock uranium mill spill
• 1979 Three Mile Island accident and Three Mile Island accident health effects
• 1974–1976 Columbus radiotherapy accident.^[6][7]
• 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 or 2100 person-Sv^{[citation needed]} of radiation was released.
• 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
• 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

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