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Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy (2004) Fukushima: Japan's Tsunami and the Inside Story of the Nuclear Meltdowns (2013) Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats (2012) Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America's Experience with Atomic Radiation (1982) In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age (2009)
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 an earthquake in 2007. [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 ...
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 ...
Globally, there have been at least 99 (civilian and military) recorded nuclear power plant 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 nuclear energy accidents that must be reported), totaling US$20.5 billion in property damages.
Time magazine has identified the accident as one of the world's "worst nuclear disasters" and the International Atomic Energy Agency called it "one of the world's worst radiological incidents". [90] [91] 1989: San Salvador, El Salvador; one fatality due to violation of safety rules at cobalt-60 irradiation facility. [92] 1990s
Pages in category "Nuclear accidents and incidents in the United States" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This is a list of accidents and disasters by death toll. It shows the number of fatalities associated with various explosions , structural fires , flood disasters , coal mine disasters , and other notable accidents caused by negligence connected to improper architecture , planning , construction , design , and more.
Nuclear aspect: the damage must be related directly to nuclear operations or materials; the event should involve fissile material or a reactor, not merely (for example) having occurred at the site of a nuclear power plant. Primarily civilian: the nuclear operation/material must be principally for non-military purposes.