List of Japanese nuclear incidents

United States of America aviators detonated nuclear bomb over Hiroshima.

United States high yield nuclear test Castle Bravo contaminated crew of Japanese tuna fishing boat Daigo Fukuryū Maru giving them acute radiation syndrome.

116 other workers received lesser doses of 1 mSv or greater though not in excess of the allowable limit.

[9] Nuclear Engineering International reported that all four units were successfully automatically shut down, but emergency diesel generators at the site were out of order.

[13] After the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami of 11 March, the cooling systems for multiple reactors (units 1, 2, 3) and spent fuel cooling ponds (all 6 units and central pool) of the Fukushima I (Fukushima Dai-ichi) nuclear power plant were compromised due to damage from the tsunami.

The 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster , the worst nuclear accident in 25 years, displaced 50,000 households after radiation leaked into the air, soil and sea. [ 15 ]