List of nuclear and radiation fatalities by country

This is a partial list of nuclear and radiation fatalities by country.

Not all fatal incidents are included, and not all included incidents were fatal.

This list only reports the proximate confirmed human deaths and does not go into detail about ecological, environmental or long-term effects such as birth defects or permanent loss of habitable land.

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. [ 1 ]
Deceased Liquidators' portraits used for an anti-nuclear power protest in Geneva .
This image of the SL-1 core served as a reminder of deaths and damage that a nuclear meltdown can cause.
The abandoned city of Pripyat, Ukraine with the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the distance.