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18 October 2011. Karachi, Pakistan. The KANUPP Karachi nuclear power plant imposed a seven-hour emergency after heavy water leaked from a feeder pipe to the reactor. The leakage took place during a routine maintenance shut down, and the emergency was lifted seven hours later, after the affected area was isolated.
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.
13. Radiotherapy accident in Costa Rica. 1996. 114 patients received an overdose of radiation from a cobalt-60 source that was being used for radiotherapy. [ 13 ]: 299, 303. 11. Radiotherapy accident in Zaragoza, Spain. 1990 December. Cancer patients receiving radiotherapy; 11 fatalities and 27 patients were injured.
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 ]
1961 – SL-1 accident resulted in three fatalities. 1964- Wood River Jct. Rhode Island. Robert D. Peabody [28] – according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Robert Peabody was the U.S. nuclear industry's first and last fatality due to acute radiation syndrome. 1974-1976 – Columbus radiotherapy accident, 10 deaths and 88 injuries.
October 3, 1986. North Atlantic. Loss of two nuclear reactors and either 32 or 48 warheads [76][77][78][nb 1] 480 miles (770 km) east of Bermuda, the Soviet Yankee I-class submarine K-219 experienced an explosion in one of its missile tubes and at least three crew members were killed.
Nuclear reactor accidents continued into the 1960s with a small test reactor exploding at the Stationary Low-Power Reactor Number One in Idaho Falls in January 1961 resulting in three deaths which were the first fatalities in the history of U.S. nuclear reactor operations. [6] There was also a partial meltdown at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear ...
5. Loss of coolant, possible meltdown. The Soviet icebreaker Lenin[citation needed], the USSR ’s first nuclear-powered surface ship, suffered a major accident (possibly a nuclear meltdown – exactly what happened remains a matter of controversy in the West) in one of its three reactors.