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Serious radiation and other accidents and incidents include: 1940s. May 1945: Albert Stevens was one of several subjects of a human radiation experiment, and was injected with plutonium without his knowledge or informed consent. Although Stevens was the person who received the highest dose of radiation during the plutonium experiments, he was ...
1985 to 1987 – The Therac-25 was a radiation therapy machine produced by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL). It is known to be responsible for six accidents between 1985 and 1987, in which patients were given massive overdoses of radiation, which were in some cases on the order of hundreds of grays. Three patients died as a result of the ...
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 ...
Radiation exposures in accidents - Annex C of UNSCEAR 2008 Report (Comprehensive list of accidents with details) "The world's worst nuclear power disasters" . Power Technology . 7 October 2013.
Radiation Doses Background on ionizing radiation and doses, World Nuclear Association; Canadian Centre for Occupational Health & Safety More information on radiation units and doses. Radiological Incidents Database Extensive, well-referenced list of radiological incidents.
Mar. 11—SANTA FE — Two more radiation contamination incidents potentially involving glove boxes have been reported at Los Alamos National Laboratory's plutonium facility, according to a ...
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.
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. 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 ...