Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents



These are lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents.

Main lists

 * List of attacks on nuclear plants
 * 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 nuclear meltdown accidents
 * List of military nuclear accidents
 * List of orphan source incidents
 * List of nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents
 * List of nuclear and radiation accidents by death toll
 * List of articles about the Three Mile Island accident

Lists by country

 * List of nuclear power accidents by country
 * 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
 * 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 (INES level 4).
 * 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
 * 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 6300GBq or 2100 person-Sv of radiation was released.
 * 1962 Thor missile launch failures during nuclear weapons testing at Johnston Atoll under Operation Fishbowl
 * 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
 * 1950 Desert Rock exercises
 * Bikini Atoll
 * 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