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The Chernobyl Forum predicts that the eventual death toll could reach 4,000 among those exposed to the highest levels of radiation (200,000 emergency workers, 116,000 evacuees and 270,000 residents of the most contaminated areas); this figure is a total causal death toll prediction, combining the deaths of approximately 50 emergency workers who ...
In August 1986—at the first international conference on the Chernobyl disaster—the IAEA established but did not make official a figure of 4,000 deaths as the total number of projected deaths caused by the accident over the long term. In 2005 and 2006, a joint group of the United Nations and the governments of Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia ...
1974–1976. 88 injuries resulting in 10 fatalities from cobalt-60 source due to incorrect calibration of a teletherapy unit. [12] [16] 9. Soviet submarine K-27 reactor accident. 1968, May 24. 83 people were injured due to uneven cooling of the reactor core, resulting in fuel element failures and multiple ruptures. [12] 8.
Hundreds of people were exposed to radiation and two workers later died. This is not a nuclear power plant accident, however. 2: 4 2002: Onagawa, Japan: Two workers were exposed to a small amount of radiation and suffered minor burns during a fire. 0: 9 Aug 2004: Mihama, Japan
This article lists verifiable spaceflight-related accidents and incidents resulting in human death or serious injury. These include incidents during flight or training for crewed space missions and testing, assembly, preparation, or flight of crewed and robotic spacecraft. Not included are accidents or incidents associated with intercontinental ...
In the U.S., at least 56 nuclear reactor accidents have occurred. The most serious of these U.S. accidents was the Three Mile Island accident in 1979. According to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Davis–Besse Nuclear Power Station has been the source of two of the top five most dangerous nuclear incidents in the United States since 1979.
As workers struggled to cool and shut down the reactors, several strongly damaging hydrogen-air chemical explosions occurred. [37] [38] Concerns about the atmospheric venting of radioactive gasses and the large hydrogen explosion at unit 1 led to a 20 km (12 mi)-radius evacuation around the plant.
Üsküdar – A small passenger ferry sank due to heavy lodos weather in the Gulf of İzmit on 1 March. 272 passengers including seven crew died; 39 people survived. 272. 1994. Kenya. Likoni Ferry – On 29 April the overloaded passenger ferry Mtongwe One capsized and sank killing 272 people of the more than 300 aboard.