FEBRUARY 1989 El Salvador, San Salvador: An industrial cobalt-60 source becomes stuck in the irradiation position. Staff are exposed to high radiation doses.
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2004 France, Cattenom 3 nuclear plant: It is discovered during refueling that a fuel element had been placed in the wrong position in the fuel pool during a previous refueling.
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1983 Satellite “Cosmos 1402” fails to boost its nuclear reactor into a higher orbit. The reactor core re-enters the atmosphere and breaks up over the South Atlantic.
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2004 Germany, Biblis nuclear plant: Partly breakdown of the auxiliary emergency power supply from Biblis A to B and emergency power demand at Biblis B.
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1991 Japan, Mihama nuclear plant in Fukui prefecture: A pipe rupture causes leakage of radioactive water and radioactive steam from the reactor cooling system of unit 2.
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1999 Kuwait: A muzzle reference sensor, containing tritium, is accidentally dumped onto a Kuwait garbage dump by a unit of the US Army.
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2000 USA, Millstone 2 nuclear plant in Connecticut: During a test at full power two of the control rods fall into the reactor core causing an emergency shutdown.
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Nauomovka: Children at Nauomovka primary school. This town was contaminated by an accident at one of the world’s largest nuclear facilities in the world, the Siberian Chemical Combine at Seversk (formerly Tomsk-7) in 1993, and never evacuated. Those who could have, left the area.