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Seabrook 2009-2 — The Seabrook plant, New Hampshire has *not* had any serious *atomic* accidents that I 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 and recycling depot accidents.

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 atomic power station, test reactors, filled atomic flask transportation, storage facilities, fuel rod manufacturing and recycling depot accidents.

It dose not cover-

Lost, abused and damaged medical devices,industrial isotope scanners, industrial radio-sterilising devices or isotope capsules.
Accidents in uranium mines and particle accelerators.
Scavaging radioactive junk without due regard, knowledge or moral intent.
It also does not include either broken arrow nuke accidents and lost nukes are not counted here.

The data charts

Individual accident score cards

A synoptic chart of major atomic reactor disasters up to 2017
Accident in question.	Pre-Cold War year.	Cold War Years.	Post-Cold War year.	Nation involved.	INES rating.	Both immediate and proven cancer deaths.
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.



Caetité spillages	0	0	2004/2004/2010	Brazil	4/4/4	0/0/0
1977 Dounreay explosion	0	1977	1997/2005 (Both were decomissioning work errors)	UK	4/4/4	0/0/0
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	o
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	57
The Windscale reactor fire and 5 Sellafield incidents	0	1957\1955-1979	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)	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	1983/1985/1985/1986/1986/1987	0	USA	All 4	All 0
1979 Tennessee top-secret nuclear fuel plant accident	0	1979	0	USA	5	0
Tokaimura nuclear accident	0	1999	0	Japan	4\4	0\2
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster	0	2017	0	Japan	7	1,600
Leipzig L-IV experiment accident	1942	0	0	Nazi Germany (Germany)	4	0

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Notes for new additions. W.I.P. : Under the Hood, Connect to Basic information? 08:30, June 24, 2017 (UTC)

Sodium Reactor Experiment (SRE)- 1959 usa

NRX (National Research Experimental)- 1950s can

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civilian_nuclear_accidents

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/List_of_civilian_radiation_accidents

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: Under the Hood, Connect to Basic information? 08:58, June 24, 2017 (UTC)

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 %.	Cold War Years number and %.	Post-Cold War year number and %.
USA.	0		0
Czechoslovakia (Slovakia)	0		0
Switzerland.	0		0
UK	0
Brazil	0
Argentina.	0		0
France	0		0
Canada	0		0
USSR (Russia)	0		0
USSR (Ukraine)	0		0
GDR (Germany)	0		0
Japan	0	0
Nazi Germany (Germany)	100%	0	0

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

Holistic global incidents map

Atomic accident map — Major atomic accidents from 1942 to 2017.

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 NRX (National Research Experimental)- 1950s can
-September 1983 — INES Level 4 – Buenos Aires, Argentina – Accidental criticality
-An operator error during a fuel plate reconfiguration in an experimental test reactor led to an excursion of 3×1017 fissions at the RA-2 facility. The operator absorbed 20 Gy of gamma and 17 Gy of neutron radiation which killed him two days later. Another 17 people outside of the reactor room absorbed doses ranging from 350 mGy to less than 10 mGy.
-Winter 1966-1967 (date unknown) — INES Level needed – location unknown – Loss of coolant accident: The [[Soviet icebreaker Lenin]], the [[USSR]]’s first nuclear-powered surface ship, suffered a major accident (possibly a meltdown — exactly what happened remains a matter of controversy in the West) in one of its three reactors. To find the leak the crew broke through the concrete and steel radiation shield with sledgehammers, causing irreparable damage. It was rumored that around 30 of the crew were killed. The ship was abandoned for a year to allow radiation levels to drop before the three reactors were removed, to be dumped into the Tsivolko Fjord on the Kara Sea, along with 60% of the fuel elements packed in a separate container. The reactors were replaced with two new ones, and the ship reentered service in 1970, serving until 1989.
-April 1960 — INES Level needed – Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States – Core melt accident
-A core melt accident occurred at the Westinghouse Waltz Mill test reactor. From what information remains of the event, one fuel element melted, resulting in the disposition of 2 million gallons of contaminated water generated during the accident. At least a portion of the water was retained on site in lagoons, a condition which eventually led to detectable 90Sr in groundwater plus contaminated soil. The site is currently undergoing cleanup.
-July 1959 — INES Level needed – Santa Susana Field Laboratory, California, United States – Partial meltdown
-A partial core meltdown took place when the Sodium Reactor Experiment (SRE) experienced a power excursion that caused severe overheating of the reactor core, resulting in the melting of one-third of the nuclear fuel and significant releases of radioactive gases. The amount of radioactivity released is variously reported as 240 to 260 times worse than Three Mile Island. Over the succeeding years, the site was cleaned up and all buildings and contamination removed. The soil was removed and other soil brought in and now forms a portion of an area near the Simi Valley Adventist Hospital.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civilian_nuclear_accidents