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The Tokaimura nuclear accidents refer to two nuclear related incidents near the village of Tōkai, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. The first accident occurred on 11 March 1997, producing an explosion after an experimental batch of solidified nuclear waste caught fire at the Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation (PNC) radioactive ...
September 1999: two fatalities at criticality accident at Tokaimura nuclear accident (Japan) 2000s. 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 ...
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 ...
Nuclear Engineering International reported that all four units were successfully automatically shut down, but emergency diesel generators at the site were out of order. [10] People were evacuated around 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the plant, due to possible radioactive contamination .
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Two separate nuclear accidents occurred in the 90s at the Tokai plant and nearby reprocessing facility, both in Tokai village (Tokaimura). In March 1997 a fire broke out in the bituminisation facility where spent fuel is encased in molten asphalt (bitumen) for storage.
Tōkai (東海村, Tōkai-mura) is a village located in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.As of 1 July 2020, the village had an estimated population of 37,651 in 15,148 households and a population density of 991 persons per km 2.
While that report does indeed mention the Tokaimura Tokaimura nuclear accident, and in still another section of the article in a different context mentions how neutrons passing through air can ionize the air and make it glow blue, it does not say what exactly glowed blue that three operators at Tokaimura witnessed, nor does it say that the air ...