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February 1, 2000 – Samut Prakan radiation accident: The radiation source of an expired radiotherapy unit was purchased and transferred without registration, and stored in an unguarded car park in Samut Prakan, Thailand without warning signs. [50] It was then stolen from the car park and dismantled in a junkyard for scrap metal.
The accident exposed 160 on-site workers and almost two thousand cleanup workers to total doses of up to 50 mSv (the threshold limit for radiation workers is 20 mSv/yr). [ 36 ] [ 37 ] [ 38 ] June 1999
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
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
Radiation accident in Mexico City: 1962 Exposure to a cobalt-60 orphan source from an industrial radiographic device. 3 SL-1 accident 1961, January 3 All three of the experimental reactor crew died when the reactor went prompt critical and the core explosively vaporized. 3 Samut Prakan radiation accident: 2000 February
Examples include lethal effects to individuals, large radioactivity release to the environment, or a reactor core melt. [6] The prime example of a "major nuclear accident" is one in which a reactor core is damaged and significant amounts of radioactive isotopes are released, such as in the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 and Fukushima nuclear ...
Tesla's vehicles have the highest fatal accident rate among all car brands in America, according to a recent iSeeCars study that analyzed data from the U.S. Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS).
Globally, there have been at least 99 (civilian and military) recorded nuclear reactor 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 major energy accidents that must be reported), totaling US$20.5 billion in property damages.