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
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.
2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster