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The Seabrook plant, New Hampshire has not had any serious atomic accidents that are know of yet (2015).

Over view[]

It is a statistical overview list of the world's major atomic power station, test reactors, filled atomic flask transportation, storage facilities, fuel rod manufacturing, junk yard and recycling depot accidents.

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

The article's scope[]

It covers the world's INES rating 4 or above atomic power station, test reactors, filled atomic flask transportation, storage facilities, atomic waste yard accents, fuel rod manufacturing and recycling depot accidents.

  • It dose not cover-
  1. Lost, abused and damaged medical devices,industrial isotope scanners, industrial radio-sterilising devices, regular junk yards or isotope capsules.
  2. Accidents in uranium mines and particle accelerators.
  3. Scavenging radioactive junk without due regard, knowledge or moral intent.
  4. Either broken arrow nuke accidents and lost nukes.
  5. Terrorism or criminal acts such as deliberate food tainting without due regard, knowledge or moral intent.

The data charts[]

Individual accident score cards[]

A synoptic chart of major atomic reactor disasters up to 2017.
Accident in question. Pre-Cold War years. Cold War Years. Post-Cold War years. Nation involved. INES rating. Both immediate deaths and proven cancer deaths.
Vinča reactor (partial meltdown) accident, 1958 0.  1958. 0. Yugoslavia (Serbia). 4. 1.
1986 Angra 1 leakage 0.  1984. 0. Brazil. 4. 4.
3 April 1960 Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania Core melt 0. 1960. 0. USA. 4. 0.
26 July 1959 Santa Susana Field Laboratory, Partial meltdown 0. 1959. 0. USA. 6. 0.
Soviet icebreaker Lenin Winter 1966-1967 meltdown 0. The Winter of 1966-1967. 0. The USSR's northern waters. 4 or 3. Circa ~30.
1952 NRX (National Research Experimental) accident. 0. 1952. 0. Canada. 4  0
June 10, 1977 Waterford, Connecticut, hydrogen gas explosion. 0 1977 0 USA 3 15
Caetité spillages 0 0 2004/2004/2010 Brazil 4/4/4 0/0/0
1977 Dounreay explosion 0 1977 0 UK 4/ 0/
Dounreay Decommissioning work errors 0 0 1997/2005 UK 4/4 0/0
1966 unidentified Detroit experimental reactor partial melt down. 0 1966. 0 USA. Level 4 0.
6 April 1993 Tomsk explosion 0 0 1993 Russia 4 o
November 2005 Braidwood, Illinois, nuclear material leak. 0 0 2005 USA 4 0
August 31, 1994 – Commerce Township, Michigan incident. 0 0 1994 USA 3 or 4  1
July 1981 – Lycoming, Nine Mile Point, New York atomic accident. 0 1981 0 USA 3 or 4 0
2003 – Cape of Navarin, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia accident. 0 0 2003 Russia 3 or 4 0
September 10, 2004 – Yakutia, Russia accident. 0 0 2004 Russia 3 or 4 0
2005 – Dounreay, U.K. In September accident. 0 0 2005 UK 4 0
Jaslovské Bohunice, A1 plant, KS 150 reactor accident. 0 1977. 0 Czechoslovakia (Slovakia) 4. 3.
Lucens partial core meltdown 0 1969 0 Switzerland. Level 5 0.
Chapelcross nuclear power station partial meltdown 0 1967 0 UK 4 1.
Buenos Aires accidental criticality incident. 0 1983. 0 Argentina. 4. 1.
Saint-Laurent-des-Eaux Reactor A2 nuclear materials leak 0 1969/1980 0 France 4/4. 0/0.
SL-1 Experimental Power Station accident 0 1961 0 USA 4 3
Chalk River nuclear accident 0 1952\1958 0 Canada 5\4 0
Kyshtym (Urals Mountains) disaster 0 1957\1967 0 USSR (Russia) Level 6\Level 6  22\0
Three Mile Island accident 0 1979 0 USA 5 2
The Chernobyl disaster 0 1986 0 USSR (Ukraine) Level 7 2,057
The Windscale reactor fire and 5 Sellafield incidents 0 1957\1955-1979 (alleged) 0 UK 5\all 4 33\all 0
1986 Oklahoma accident. 0. 1986. 0. USA. 4 1
Lubmin nuclear power complex accidents 0 1975 0 GDR (Germany) 4 0
Andreev Bay nuclear accident 0 1982 0 USSR (Russia) 4 1
Tennessee Valley Authority's Sequoyah 1 plant accident 0 1981 0 USA 4 8
Balakovo Nuclear Power Plant accident 0 1985 0 USSR (Russia) 4 14
Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant accidents. 0. 1975/1975/1975/1976/ 1979/1990/1991. 1992/1994/1996/2000/ 2000/2009. USSR (Russia)- 1975 to 1991 and Russia- 1992-2009.  4/5/5/5/5/4/4/5/ 5/5/4/4/5. 0/3/3/0/0/0/0/0 /0/0/0/0/0.
Corporate malfeasance at the Peach Bottom Nuclear Generating Station 0 1983/1985/1985/1986/1986 0 USA All 4 All 0
1979 Tennessee top-secret nuclear fuel plant accident 0. 1979. 0. USA. 5 0
Tokaimura nuclear accident 0 0. 1999. Japan. 4\4 0\2
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster 0 0. 2017. Japan. 7 1,600
Leipzig L-IV experiment accident. 1942. 0. 0. Nazi Germany (Germany). 4. 0.

Number and % of total world wide to date[]

A synoptic chart of major atomic reactor disasters up to 2017.
Nation. Pre-Cold War year number and %. Mid 1945-1957 number and %. 1958-1970 number and %. 1971-1983 number and %. 1984-1991 number and %. Post-Cold War year number and %. Total number and %.
Yugoslavia. 0 0 1= 7.69% 0 0 0 1= 1.61%
USA. 0 0 5= 38.46% 4= 50% 6= 37.5% 2= 10.52%  19= 30.65%
Czechoslovakia 0 0 0 1= 12.5% 0 0 1= 1.61%
Switzerland. 0 0 1= 7.69% 0 0 0 1= 1.61%
UK. 0 1= 25% 1= 7.69% 1= 12.5% 0 3= 15.78% 6= 9.67%
Brazil. 0 0 0 0 1= 6.25% 3= 15.78% 4= 6.45%
Argentina. 0 0 0 0 1= 6.25% 0 1= 1.61%
Russia 0  0 0 0 0 9= 47.36% 9= 14.51%

France.

0 0 2= 15.38% 0 0 0 2= 3.22%
Canada. 0 2= 50% 1= 7.69% 0 0 0 3= 4.83%
USSR 0 1= 25% 2= 15.38% 1= 12.5% 8= 50% 0 13= 20.96%
GDR 0 0 0 1= 12.5% 0 0 1= 1.61%
Japan. 0 0 0 0 0 2= 10.52% 2= 3.22%
Nazi Germany (Germany). 1=100%. 0. 0. 0. 0. 0. 1=1.61%

2 examples of routine minor non-nuclear accidents[]

March 31, 2013 Russellville, Arkansas, USA: One worker was killed and two others injured when part of a generator fell as it was being moved at the Arkansas Nuclear One.

March 29, 1988 Burlington, Kansas, USA: A worker at the Wolf Creek Generating Station falls through an unmarked manhole and fatally electrocutes himself when trying to escape.

Videos[]

1961_Nuclear_Reactor_Meltdown_The_SL-1_Accident_-_United_States_Army_Documentary_-_WDTVLIVE42-0

1961 Nuclear Reactor Meltdown The SL-1 Accident - United States Army Documentary - WDTVLIVE42-0

1961 Nuclear Reactor Meltdown : The SL-1 Accident - United States Army Documentary - WDTVLIVE42.

Nuclear_Reactor_Meltdown_"SL-1_Accident_Briefing_Film_Report"_1961_AEC_Atomic_Energy_Commission

Nuclear Reactor Meltdown "SL-1 Accident Briefing Film Report" 1961 AEC Atomic Energy Commission

Nuclear Reactor Meltdown: "SL-1 Accident Briefing Film Report" 1961 AEC Atomic Energy Commission.

SL-1_Accident_Briefing_Report_-_1961_Nuclear_Reactor_Meltdown_Educational_Documentary_-_WDTVLIVE42

SL-1 Accident Briefing Report - 1961 Nuclear Reactor Meltdown Educational Documentary - WDTVLIVE42

SL-1 Accident Briefing Report - 1961 Nuclear Reactor Meltdown Educational Documentary - WDTVLIVE42

Also see[]

  1. Energy
  2. Atomic accidents and disasters
  3. Synoptic charts of major miscellaneous atomic disasters up to 2017

Holistic global incidents map[]

Atomic accident map

Major atomic accidents from 1942 to 2017.

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