Synoptic charts of major miscellaneous atomic disasters up to 2017

Over view
It is a statistical overview list of the world's major miscellaneous atomic disasters such as accidental mass contamination of workers in uranium mines.

Former nations have the current nation relevant to the incident in brackets beside them, ie: Czechoslovakia (Slovakia).

Interwiki links go to the pages of those who indices occurred during the Cold War.

The article's scope
It covers the world's over INES rating 4 major miscellaneous atomic disasters. Lost, abused and damaged medical devices,industrial isotope scanners, industrial radio-sterilising devices or isotope capsules. Accidents in uranium mines and particle accelerators are included.


 * It dose not cover-
 * 1) Atomic power station, test reactors, filled atomic flask transportation, storage facilities, fuel rod manufacturing and recycling depot accidents.
 * 2) Scavaging radioactive junk without due regard, knowledge or moral intent.
 * 3) It also does not include either broken arrow nuke accidents and lost nukes are not counted here.

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 * 1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Flats_Plant



W.T.F.!
1927–1930  radium poisoning Eben Byers ingested almost 1,400 bottles of Radithor, a radioactive patent medicine, leading to his death in 1932. He is buried in Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in a lead-lined coffin.

1989 – In the Kramatorsk radiological accident, a small capsule containing highly radioactive 137Cs was found inside the concrete wall in an apartment building in Kramatorsk, Ukrainian SSR. It is believed that the capsule, originally contained in a measurement device, was lost sometime during the late 1970s and ended up mixed in with gravel used to construct that building in 1980. By the time the capsule was discovered, six residents of the building had died from leukemia and 17 more received varying doses of radiation.

In November 2003, a completely dismantled RTG located on the Island of Yuzhny Goryachinsky in the Kola Bay was found. The generator's radioactive heat source was found on the ground near the shoreline in the northern part of the island.

2012- A small capsule containing highly radioactive 137Cs was found in a Georgian (nation not US state) safety jacket's pocket. Several people were badly burnt by it since the early 1990s, but none died. The jacket and capsule were disposed of in ordinary rubbish during, not atomic rubbish.

Also see

 * 1) Energy
 * 2) Atomic accidents and disasters
 * 3) Synoptic charts of major atomic reactor and waste disasters up to 2017

Holistic global incidents map
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