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The second, more serious Tōkai nuclear accident (Japanese: 東海村JCO臨界事故, romanized: Tōkai-mura JCO-rinkai-jiko) occurred about four miles away from the PNC facility on 30 September 1999, at a fuel enrichment plant operated by JCO, a subsidiary of Sumitomo Metal Mining Company. It was the worst civilian nuclear radiation accident ...
Tokaimura, Japan: The criticality accident at the Tokai fuel fabrication facility. [41] Hundreds of people were exposed to radiation and two workers later died. This is not a nuclear power plant accident, however. [45] 2: 4 2002: Onagawa, Japan: Two workers were exposed to a small amount of radiation and suffered minor burns during a fire. [45 ...
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.
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 Three deaths and ten injuries resulted when a radiation-therapy unit was dismantled. [20] 2 Tokaimura nuclear accident, Japan: 1999, September 30
The 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, the worst nuclear accident in 25 years, displaced 50,000 households after radiation leaked into the air, soil and sea. [ 15 ] List of plants affected by 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami
To combat accidents associated with aging nuclear power plants, it may be advantageous to build new nuclear power reactors and retire the old nuclear plants. In the United States alone, more than 50 start-up companies are working to create innovative designs for nuclear power plants [ 153 ] while ensuring the plants are more affordable and cost ...
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster; List of boiling water reactors; Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents; List of nuclear power plants in Japan; Tokaimura nuclear accident; 5 yen coin § Use in nuclear accident investigation; Rokkasho Reprocessing Plant, meant to be the successor of the Tokai reprocessing Plant
Tokaimura nuclear accident (Japan) – 1999, three inexperienced operators at a reprocessing facility caused a criticality accident; two of them died. [ 11 ] Mayapuri (India) – 2010, a university irradiator was sold for scrap and dismantled by dealers unaware of the hazardous materials.