Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents
These are lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents.
Main lists
- List of articles about the Three Mile Island accident
- List of Chernobyl-related articles
- List of civilian nuclear accidents
- List of civilian radiation accidents
- List of crimes involving radioactive substances
- List of criticality accidents and incidents
- List of military nuclear accidents
- List of nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents
- List of nuclear and radiation accidents by death toll
- List of nuclear meltdown accidents
- List of orphan source incidents
Lists by country
- List of nuclear power accidents by country
- Nuclear reactor accidents in the United States
- List of nuclear and radiation fatalities by country
Individual disasters, incidents and sites
- 2024 Nuclear incident at Khabarovsk, Russia
- 2022–2023 Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant leak
- 2019 Radiation release during explosion and fire at Russian nuclear missile test site
- 2017 Airborne radioactivity increase in Europe in autumn 2017
- 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
- 2010 Mayapuri radiological accident
- 2007 Radioactive leakage in C.N. Ascó I (Ascó - Tarragona)
- 2004 Mihama Nuclear Power Plant accident
- 2001 Instituto Oncologico Nacional radiotherapy accident
- 2000 Samut Prakan radiation accident, Thailand.
- 1999 and 1997 Tokaimura nuclear accidents
- 1996 San Juan de Dios radiotherapy accident
- 1994 Theft of radioactive material in Tammiku, Estonia.
- 1993 Tomsk-7 accident at the Reprocessing Complex in Seversk, Russia, when a tank exploded while being cleaned with nitric acid. The explosion released a cloud of radioactive gas.
- 1990 Clinic of Zaragoza radiotherapy accident
- 1987 Goiânia accident
- 1986 Chernobyl disaster and Effects of the Chernobyl disaster
- 1985 Explosion during refuelling of the K-431 (formerly K-31) submarine
- 1984 Radiation accident in Morocco
- 1982 Lost radiation source in Baku, Azerbaijan, USSR.
- 1980 Houston radiotherapy accident.
- 1979 Church Rock uranium mill spill
- 1979 Three Mile Island accident and Three Mile Island accident health effects
- 1974–1976 Columbus radiotherapy accident.
- 1969 Lucens reactor
- 1968 Thule B-52 crash
- 1966 Palomares B-52 crash
- 1964 SNAP 9a satellite releases plutonium over the planet earth, an estimated 630 TBq of radiation was released.
- 1962 Thor missile launch failures during nuclear weapons testing at Johnston Atoll under Operation Fishbowl
- 1962 Radiation accident in Mexico City
- 1961 SL-1 nuclear meltdown
- 1961 K-19 nuclear accident
- 1959 SRE partial nuclear meltdown at Santa Susana Field Laboratory
- 1958 Mailuu-Suu tailings dam failure
- 1957 Kyshtym disaster
- 1957 Windscale fire
- 1957 Operation Plumbbob
- 1954 Totskoye nuclear exercise
- 1946–1954 Bikini Atoll nuclear tests
- Hanford Site
- Rocky Flats Plant, see also radioactive contamination from the Rocky Flats Plant
- Techa River
- Pollution of Lake Karachay
- 1945 and 1946 Demon core
- 1942 Leipzig L-IV experiment accident