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List of nuclear and radiation fatalities by country

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List of nuclear and radiation fatalities by country
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This is a partial list of nuclear and radiation fatalities by country. Not all fatal incidents are included, and not all included incidents were fatal.

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The 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the worst nuclear accident in 25 years, displaced 50,000 households after radiation leaked into the air, soil and sea.[1]
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Deceased Liquidators' portraits used for an anti-nuclear power protest in Geneva.
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This image of the SL-1 core served as a reminder of deaths and damage that a nuclear meltdown can cause.

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.

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Brazil

  • September 13, 1987 – Goiania accident. Four fatalities and 320 other people received serious radiation contamination.[2]

Costa Rica

Estonia

Greenland

India

Japan

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Mexico

Morocco

Panama

Soviet Union/Russia

  • September 29, 1957 – Kyshtym disaster, 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.[13] (INES level 6).[14]
  • July 4, 1961 – Soviet submarine K-19 accident. Eight fatalities and more than 30 people were over-exposed to radiation.[15]
  • May 24, 1968 – Soviet submarine K-27 accident. Nine fatalities and 83 people were injured.[12]
  • 5 October 1982 – Lost radiation source, Baku, Azerbaijan, USSR. Five fatalities and 13 injuries.[12]
  • August 10, 1985 – Soviet submarine K-431 accident. Ten fatalities and 49 other people suffered radiation injuries.[16]
  • April 26, 1986 – Chernobyl disaster. See below in the section on Ukraine. In 1986, the Ukrainian SSR was part of the Soviet Union.
  • 1 November 2006 – assassination of Alexander Litvinenko by exposure to Polonium-210.[17]
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Spain

Thailand

Ukraine

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The abandoned city of Pripyat, Ukraine with the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the distance.

United Kingdom

  • October 8, 1957 – Windscale fire ignites plutonium piles and contaminates surrounding dairy farms, 100 to 240 cancer deaths.[24][25][26]

United States

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References

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