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== Serhii Plokhy 2022 =
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'''[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_testing_at_Bikini_Atoll | 1954 Bikini Castle Bravo thermonuclear test ]]''' '''[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_testing_at_Bikini_Atoll | 1954 Bikini Castle Bravo thermonuclear test ]]'''
 . 167 evacuated
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'''[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster | 1957 Kyshtym nuclear waste explosion ]]'''
 . 10,000 evacuated, 270,000 exposed
 . ''wikipedia:'' 20 Mcuries of radioactivity
  . previous intentional dumping of 3 Mcuries into Techa river and 120 Mcuries into [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Karachay | Lake Karachay ]]
  

'''[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire | 1957 Windscale fire ]]'''
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 . ''wikipedia:'' 300 Kcuries xenon-133, 20 Kcuries iodine-131, 600 curies cesium-137

'''[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident | 1979 Three Mile Island accident ]]'''
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 . ''wikipedia:'' 14 μSv to 2M people, compared to 3100 μSv annual natural dose (8.5 μSv/day) 13 Mcuries noble gasses, 15 Curies iodine-131, 1e10 curies remained in reactor
 . TMI unit 1 returned online, and shut down permanently on September 20, 2019. The fuel assemblies were removed to a storage pool (onsite?). No idea about the current radiation levels in the spent fuel and the removed unit 2 reactor, or in the containment buildings.

'''[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster | 1986 Chernobyl disaster ]]'''
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'''[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_nuclear_disaster | 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster ]]'''
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'''[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster | Kyshtym nuclear waste explosion ]]'''

Atoms and ashes

A Global History of Nuclear Disasters

Serhii Plokhy 2022 . . Beaverton Lib 363.1799 PLO

1954 Bikini Castle Bravo thermonuclear test

  • 167 evacuated

1957 Kyshtym nuclear waste explosion

  • 10,000 evacuated, 270,000 exposed

  • wikipedia: 20 Mcuries of radioactivity

    • previous intentional dumping of 3 Mcuries into Techa river and 120 Mcuries into Lake Karachay

1957 Windscale fire

  • wikipedia: 300 Kcuries xenon-133, 20 Kcuries iodine-131, 600 curies cesium-137

1979 Three Mile Island accident

  • wikipedia: 14 μSv to 2M people, compared to 3100 μSv annual natural dose (8.5 μSv/day) 13 Mcuries noble gasses, 15 Curies iodine-131, 1e10 curies remained in reactor

  • TMI unit 1 returned online, and shut down permanently on September 20, 2019. The fuel assemblies were removed to a storage pool (onsite?). No idea about the current radiation levels in the spent fuel and the removed unit 2 reactor, or in the containment buildings.

1986 Chernobyl disaster

2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster

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