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nuclear accident

event that has led to significant consequences to people, the environment or the facility
Class type of: accident, nuclear hazard Q1620824
nuclear accident
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Facts

10 properties
Instance of
type of accident
Subclass of
accident, nuclear hazard[2][3]
Part of
nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents[4]
Facet of
nuclear safety and security[7]
Different from
nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents[12]
Has cause
natural disaster, human error[5][6]
Has effect
radioactive contamination, irradiation[9][10]
Has list
list of civilian nuclear incidents, lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents[13][14]
Measurement scale
International Nuclear Event Scale[11]
Topic has template
Template:Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents[8]
🏷️ Also known as
en nuclear incident en nuclear accident ar حادث نووي cs jaderná havárie da kernekraftulykke de Strahlenunfall de nuklearer Unfall el πυρηνικό ατύχημα en-gb nuclear incident es accidente nuclear es incidente nuclear fi ydinonnettomuus fr accident nucléaire fr incident nucléaire hu atombaleset hu nukleáris baleset id insiden nuklir it incidente nucleare ja 原子力事故 ja 原子力災害
🔖 Identifiers · 33
Library of Congress authority ID
sh98004645
GND ID
4057834-3
OpenAlex ID
C2991989891, C2909549230
ABC News topic ID
nuclear-accident
BBC Things ID
eb55f018-82d5-47a2-b90f-25d58902f733
BNCF Thesaurus ID
56580
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
119469447
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.1799
EuroVoc ID
921
Freebase ID
/m/021yk8
GEMET ID
5708
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
kjernekraftulykker
Show all 33 identifiers +21
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
3489013
IEV number
395-06-01
IPTC NewsCode
mediatopic/20000142
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
radiation-accidents
KBpedia ID
NuclearEvent
NL CR AUT ID
ph114813
Namuwiki ID
원자력 사고
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007534848505171
National Library of Latvia ID
000325214
NicoNicoPedia ID
原発事故
OmegaWiki Defined Meaning
2566
Oxford Reference overview ID
20110803100241289
SVKKL authority ID
h0003260-jaderne-havarie
ScienceDirect topic ID
earth-and-planetary-sciences/nuclear-accident, engineering/nuclear-accident, physics-and-astronomy/nuclear-accident
Topic's main category
Category:Nuclear accidents and incidents
Vikidia article ID
fr:Accident_nucléaire
Wellcome Collection concept ID
bxeyfsgj
Word in DPEJ of RAE ID
accidente-nuclear
YSO ID
28784
Yale LUX ID
concept/5d9f6ea1-3a63-4a2d-a991-7b78f4f1e5e2
Zhihu topic ID
20039276

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🔗 Connections
Examples 7
Three Mile Island accident, Goiânia accident, Windscale fire, nuclear accident in Russia in August 2019, Ciudad Juárez cobalt-60 contamination incident, Samut Prakan radiation accident, Soviet submarine K-320
Subtypes 5
nuclear meltdown, criticality accident, loss-of-coolant accident, nuclear disaster, nuclear close calls
← Significant event 4
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Anatoli Bugorski, Soviet submarine K-320
Has cause 2
natural disaster, human error
Has effect 2
radioactive contamination, irradiation
← Field of work 2
David R. Marples, Nuclear Emergency Support Team
← Is a list of 2
list of civilian nuclear incidents, list of military nuclear accidents
← Main subject 2
International Nuclear Event Scale, Law No. 14222 of October 15, 2021
Different from 1
nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents
Facet of 1
nuclear safety and security
Has list 1
list of civilian nuclear incidents
Measurement scale 1
International Nuclear Event Scale
Part of 1
nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents
Subclass of 1
accident
Topic has template 1
Template:Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents
Topic's main category 1
Category:Nuclear accidents and incidents
← Category combines topics 1
Category:Nuclear accidents and incidents in the United States
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Nuclear accidents and incidents
← Different from 1
nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents
← Has cause 1
radioactive contamination
← Template has topic 1
Template:Nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents
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Summary

nuclear accident is a type of accident[1].

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 5w ago · Ottawajin · 2026-10-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    GEMET ID → 5708
    Wikipedia languages → ['az', 'be_x_old', 'bs', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'en', 'es', 'eu', 'fi', 'fr', 'hr', '
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ GEMET ID: 5708, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/152601842|nuclear accident (#152601842)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/5959|GEMET ID]] #mix'n"
  2. 11w ago · Chalmd · 2026-08-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    BBC Things ID → eb55f018-82d5-47a2-b90f-25d58902f733
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ BBC Things ID: eb55f018-82d5-47a2-b90f-25d58902f733, Adding BBC Things ID"
  3. 21w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → h0003260-jaderne-havarie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ SVKKL authority ID: h0003260-jaderne-havarie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  4. 21w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-06-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents
    Part of → nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ Part of: nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents, разрешение перенаправления / resolving redirect nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents → nuclear and radiation a"
  5. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents
    Instance of → —
    Different from → nuclear and radiation accidents and incidents
    Has effect → radioactive contamination, irradiation
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ YSO ID: 28784, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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