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Event Report Forms (ERFs) are filed to the IAEA. Sometimes there are multiple event reports, updating the rating, the event description. Here you only see the latest event report

ERF send date: Tue, 30-11-1999
ERF description: On September 2, 1999 a container for the transport of radioactive reference materials was picked up at the IRMM, Geel, Belgium, and sent for maintenance to CROFT Associates in Abingdon, UK, via Luxembourg. The shipping container was assumed to be empty but in reality contained a reference material in form of diluted solutions of plutonium in nitric acid (0.69 g of plutonium in total).
The shipping container was transported to Abingdon and opened at CROFT, the manufacturer of the container, on the 7th of October. There the radioactive material was discovered through routinely performed radiation measurements. The material was subsequently transported to the UK Nuclear Research Centre at Harwell where it is in safe storage.
At no time there has been been a spillage of the material, a contamination of persons or any release to the environment.
Justification of Rating:
This incident has been rated at level 2 on INES, as there were significant failures of safety provisions.
ERF rating date: 08-11-1999
ERF contact person: Mr. J.J. van Binnebeek
ERF address: 157 Avenue du Roi, Belgium
ERF affiliation: AIB - Vincotte Nuclear

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