Talk:List of civilian radiation accidents

Would it be appropriate to include here incidents involving high-energy photon or electron sources but no actual radioactive material (e.g., the Therac-25 fatalities)? - Schol-R-LEA, 24 Feb 2006

I would say yes.Cadmium

Yes, because the title implies ionizing radiation. I suggest that the scope be extended to include accidents involving ionizing radiation from devices that do not use radioactive material. Nuclear and radiation accidents currently says of radiation accidents: "accidents with non-radioactive X-ray and electron beam generators are also included in this class" Olli Niemitalo (talk) 10:52, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Where is Chernobyl???

Why are there some relatively minor incidents included here, but not what is surely 'the' civilian nuclear accident, Chernobyl? BTW, I have checked in the list of military radiation accidents, and it isn't listed there either. WikiReaderer 09:57, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Chernobyl is in the List of civilian nuclear accidents - I've added a link to it in the "See Also" section. This list is only for radiation accidents - which involve release/contamination by radioactive materials, but no actual nuclear reaction. Bobstay 12:45, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

"Hid it in his room-mate's alarm clock"

I've removed the bit about the columbia university student hiding the uranium he had stolen in his room-mate's alarm clock. On reading the source article, it seems the search team found the only radiation in the room was coming from the alarm clock - but doesn't say anything about the student having hidden the uranium there. I'm guessing the alarm clock had radium paint on the markings on its face - which would fit as these students were collecting chemicals and simialar materials for their "anarchist" experiments. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobstay (talk • contribs) 13:02, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

Format proposal

I would like to propose a format change for the entries. I recently reformatted the List of civilian nuclear accidents and I think it works well. Proposed format:

month day, year - location - type of accident

• Description of the accident and related information. Description of the significant health effects, property damage or contamination that occurred. Description of response to the accident.

Instead of a wall of text the reader sees discreet entries with the most pertinent information presented up front. I am making a identical proposal for the List of military nuclear accidents since these articles are all on a very similar subject.Nailedtooth 00:29, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Removal of word "fission" from scope

"Fission" in the nuclear sense is when an atom splits. Without fission there is no radiation, and radiation accidents are what this article is for. Fission must be occurring in all these accidents, so barring accidents where fission occurs makes no sense. Nailedtooth (talk) 16:42, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

An X-ray machine can kill with radiation easily, yet there's not fission. NVO (talk) 12:15, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

From the scope and entries, I was under the impression the article was about nuclear radiation. Perhaps we need an article about civilian electromagnetic radiation accidents. Nailedtooth (talk) 16:51, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Accidents involving accelerated particles (for example electron beam) would not fit there, and it would be nice to have them listed as well. Olli Niemitalo (talk) 13:38, 29 September 2008 (UTC)

New accident (Tue, Sep 9, 2008)

Yahoo! News reports that 3 Chinese men tried to smuggle and sell 274Kg of depleted uranium. Clueless uranium smugglers spared jail. I imagine this should be added but I'm not very good at adding to articles. --Madrat (talk) 05:25, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

This doesn/t appear to meet the guidelines of the scope. There were no health consequences, and I don't think you can contaminate anything with non-irradiated depleted uranium. Simesa (talk) 11:49, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Nuclear Crime

There is also this incident: [1] - technically it is not an accident, but a crime, but it seems noteworthy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by OttoA (talk • contribs) 14:57, 18 February 2009 (UTC)

Removed very unclear entree

I removed the following entree because it does not make any sense. "August 2010 - Sofia,Bulgaria. A radiation that was 60 times over its normal state was reported in one of the abandoned areas where random civilians approach the unprotected open door where it is located in hidden forests." 67.170.28.192 (talk) 21:04, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

Separate out medical radiation events into its own page?

Would it be worthwhile to separate out noteworthy medical radiation incidents/accidents into its own page (while adding new examples)? Or should medical incidents be integrated into this page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.25.155.188 (talk) 16:46, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

this line doesn't make sense in context.

"The patient was transported back to a nursing home where the source later fell out. " — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.38.197.76 (talk) 09:10, 4 March 2013 (UTC)