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The Lia radiological accident began on December 2, 2001, with the discovery of two orphan radiation sources near the Enguri Dam in Tsalenjikha District in the country of Georgia. Three villagers from Lia were unknowingly exposed. All three men were injured, one of whom eventually died.
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
February 1, 2000 – Samut Prakan radiation accident: The radiation source of an expired teletherapy 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.
January–February 2000: Samut Prakan radiation accident: three deaths and ten injuries resulted in Samut Prakan when a cobalt-60 radiation-therapy unit was dismantled. [19] May 2000: Meet Halfa, Egypt; two fatalities due to radiography accident. [92] August 2000 – March 2001: Instituto Oncologico Nacional of Panama, 17 fatalities. Patients ...
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 ...
February 1, 2000 – Samut Prakan radiation accident: The radiation source of an expired teletherapy unit was purchased and transferred without registration, and stored in an unguarded car park in Samut Prakan, Thailand without warning signs. [38] [39] It was then stolen from the car park and dismantled in a junkyard for scrap metal. Workers ...
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.
August 2000 – March 2001 Instituto Oncológico Nacional, patients receiving treatment for cancer receive lethal doses of radiation. [34] [35] Panama City, Panama: 13 1996 1996 San Juan de Dios radiotherapy accident, 114 patients received an overdose of radiation. [36] San José, Costa Rica 11 December 1990