This article covers notable accidents involving nuclear material. In some cases, these incidents involve people being injured or killed due to the release of radioactive contamination. Most incidents involve accidental releases that have caused contamination, but had no other immediate effects. Due to government and business secrecy, it is difficult to determine with certainty the extent of some events listed below. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... The radiation warning symbol (trefoil). ... The radiation warning symbol (trefoil). ... Secrecy is the practice of hiding information from others. ...
An accidental detonation of a nuclear weapon has never happened. For an implosion assembly weapon this risk is lower, because it would require the precisely synchronized simultaneous detonation of its numerous explosive lenses. For a gun-assembly weapon the risk is higher. Nuclear weapon designs are often divided into two classes, based on the dominant source of the nuclear weapons energy. ...
The IAEA INES Scale The INES (International Nuclear Events Scale) was introduced by IAEA in order to enable prompt communication of safety significance information in case of nuclear accidents. ... Jump to: navigation, search This is a list of world disasters, both natural and man-made. ... List of nuclear reactors is a comprehensive annotated list of all the nuclear reactors of the world, sorted by country. ... Radiation has a variety of different meanings. ... The United States military uses a number of terms to define the magnitude and extent of nuclear indicents. ...
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Accidental ignition of the explosives in a nuclear weapon is insufficient to trigger the nuclear explosion of an implosion assembly weapon, such as those involved in the accident, because this requires the precisely synchronised simultaneous detonation of its numerous explosive lenses (although it could detonate a gun-assembly weapon).
The fire detonated the high explosives in the nuclear weapon and convection spread plutonium and uranium oxides over a wide area — foliage up to 13 kilometres away was contaminated with uranium-235.
This accident was partially due to a lack of supervision during a transfer of material that was thought to be water from a safe geometry container into a 55-gallon drum of unsafe geometry.
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