Radioactive incidents iceberg
Radioactive incidents iceberg is an iceberg chart topic. On r/IcebergCharts, the highest-scoring available chart on it, "Radioactive Incidents Iceberg", was posted by u/ExceptionalBadger on 16 June 2025 and had about 43 upvotes when it was collected.[1] A text version, "The Radioactive Incidents Iceberg" by ExceptionalBadger, is hosted on IcebergThreads, where it had 741 views as of 29 October 2026.[2]
The IcebergThreads author describes it as: "A iceberg of accidents and disasters involving radioactive materials through the world including some that almost happened, if you have any sugestions lemme know!"
Entries reflect the chart authors' choices and are not verified fact.
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Tiers[edit]
Tiers and entries from the IcebergThreads version[2]. Notes after a dash are shortened from the author's explanations.
Tier 1[edit]
- Chernobyl
- Fukushima
- The Goiânia Incident
- Three Mile Island
- The Demon Core
Tier 2[edit]
- Windscale Incident
- Cesium Incident in Australia (2023)
- Alexander Litvinenko
- Kysthym Disaster
- Hisashi Ouchi
- David Hahn
- Radium Girls
- Chalk River Accident
Tier 3[edit]
- Zaragoza Clinic Disaster
- Mayapuri Accident
- Daigo Fukuryū Maru
- Palomares Incident
- San José Accident
- Therac-25
- Cecil Kelley
- Samut Prakan Accident
Tier 4[edit]
- Albert Stevens
- 1984 Accident in Morroco
- Baker Test Autoradiography
- Eben Byers
- Church Rock Mine Uranium Leak
- Columbus Radiotherapy Incident
- Ciudad Juárez Contamination Event
- Radioactive Milk in Mexico (86-88)
Tier 5[edit]
- Mihama Incident
- Yanango Accident
- Karen Silkwood
- Mexico City Incident (1962)
- Submarine K-431 Disaster
- Kerry Crooker
- Béryl incident
- Bohunice Power Plant Accident
- Leipzig L-IV Accident
- The SL-1 Accident
Tier 6[edit]
- Radioactive Leak in Andreev Bay
- 1992 Jilin Orphan Sauce Event
- Douglas Crofut
- Criticality Event in Sarov
- 1982 Baku Incident
- Vladimir Kaplun
- The Lia Incident
- Buenos Aires Criticality Event (1983)
- Soyapango Incident
Tier 7[edit]
- The Kramatorsk Tragedy
- Sanlian Incident (1963)
- Kandalaksha Lighthouse Incident (2001)
- Roman Tsepov
- Iridium-192 Incident in Egypt (2000)
- Nyonoska Explosion
- Cobalt Theft in Mexico City
- Theft of Cesium-137 in Tammiku
- NUCLEMON Affair
- Al-Tuwaitha Looting
Tier 8[edit]
- The Zheleznodoroznhy Crime
- The Pelindaba Invasion
- Grozny Cobalt Theft
- Russian Navy Uranium Thefts (1993)
- The 1998 World Cup terror plot
- José Padilla
- Those Times When Tornados Almost hit Nuclear Power Plants
- 2014 ISIS Theft of Uranium
Tier 9[edit]
- 2003 Al Qaeda Dirty Bomb
- Oleg Khinsagov
- Argun Dirty Bomb
- Izmailovsky Park Dirty Bomb
Other versions[edit]
Text versions on other sites:
- Nuclear and Radiation Accidents and Incidents on IcebergThreads (564 views, 165 entries)
See also[edit]
Sources[edit]
- Featured Reddit chart: u/ExceptionalBadger. Radioactive Incidents Iceberg. Reddit (r/IcebergCharts). 16 June 2025. Retrieved 29 October 2026.
- IcebergThreads version: ExceptionalBadger. The Radioactive Incidents Iceberg. IcebergThreads. 29 January 2026. Retrieved 29 October 2026.
References[edit]
- ↑ u/ExceptionalBadger. Radioactive Incidents Iceberg. Reddit (r/IcebergCharts). 16 June 2025. Retrieved 29 October 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 ExceptionalBadger. The Radioactive Incidents Iceberg. IcebergThreads. 29 January 2026. Retrieved 29 October 2026.