Directory of Tokaimura Accident Resources

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This category is for sites concerned with the criticality accident that happened on September 30, 1999 in the Tokaimura nuclear fuel processing plant, Japan, when a combination of human errors and breaches of the approved safety guidelines resulted in a limited uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction, or nuclear criticality, triggering the emission of radiation and the release of radioactive material into the air in the facility.

Resources in This Category

• Accident Makes Japan Re-Examine A-Plants

  http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sanders/214/other/news/011300japan-nuke.html
  Collection of articles on the accident from the New York Times. Examines the effect of the accident on public opinion and governmental policy.

• Chronology and Press Reports of the Tokaimura Criticality

  http://www.isis-online.org/publications/tokai.html
  Chronological analysis and survey by the Institute for Science and International Security. Includes links to news reports.

• Tokaimura Nuclear Accident - Its Causes, Health and Environmental Effects

  http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~meshkati/tefall99/toki.html
  Research conducted by freshman seminar students about the causes, health and environmental effects of the accident.

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