This is a partial list of nuclear and radiation fatalities by country. Not all fatal incidents are included, and not all included incidents were fatal.
This list only reports the proximate confirmed human deaths and does not go into detail about ecological, environmental or long-term effects such as birth defects or permanent loss of habitable land.
August 9, 1945 - Atomic bombing of Nagasaki, 70,000~100,000 fatalities by the end of 1945. many fell ill due to fallout and died within weeks similarly to those in Hiroshima.
1965 Philippine Sea A-4 crash – where a Skyhawk attack aircraft with a nuclear weapon in US-occupied Okinawa fell into the sea. The pilot, the aircraft, and the B43 nuclear bomb were never recovered.[7] It was not until the 1980s that the Pentagon revealed the loss of the one-megaton bomb.[8]
August 9, 2004 – Mihama Nuclear Power Plant accident. Hot water and steam leaked from a broken pipe. The accident was the worst nuclear disaster of Japan up until that time, excluding Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Five fatalities.[9]Unit 3 of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, with its structural integrity exposed and deformed.
March 11, 2011 - Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster, caused after the 3/11 earthquake and its subsequent tsunami that damaged the reactors, resulting in a hydrogen explosion. one fatality four years after the disaster, suspected cause of death is cancer. Many locals had to evacuate after the disaster due to radiation. The area of the nuclear power plant is now the difficult to return zone, because of the high levels of radioactivity. a massive clean up project also took place, that is still ongoing.
August 2000 to March 2001 – Instituto Oncologico Nacional of Panama; 17 patients receiving treatment for prostate cancer and cancer of the cervix received lethal doses of radiation.[11][12]
September 29, 1957 – Kyshtym disaster, Mayak nuclear waste storage tank explosion at Chelyabinsk. Two hundred plus fatalities and this figure is a conservative estimate; 270,000 people were exposed to dangerous radiation levels. Over thirty small communities had been removed from Soviet maps between 1958 and 1991.[13] (INES level 6).[14]
July 4, 1961 – Soviet submarine K-19 accident. Eight fatalities and more than 30 people were over-exposed to radiation.[15]
1961 – (US Army) SL-1 accident resulted in three fatalities.
1964- Wood River Jct. Rhode Island. Robert D. Peabody[28] – according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Robert Peabody was the U.S. nuclear industry's first and last fatality due to acute radiation syndrome.
12Pallava Bagla. "Radiation Accident a 'Wake-Up Call' For India's Scientific Community" Science, Vol. 328, 7 May 2010, p. 679.
↑Broken Arrows at www.atomicarchive.com. Accessed Aug 24, 2007.
↑"U.S. Confirms '65 Loss of H-Bomb Near Japanese Islands". The Washington Post. Reuters. May 9, 1989. p.A-27.
12Benjamin K. Sovacool. A Critical Evaluation of Nuclear Power and Renewable Electricity in Asia, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 40, No. 3, August 2010, p. 399.
