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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, 16-01-2007
ERF description: On 6th November 2006, at the Cadarache MOX fuel processing former facility ATPu, after a maintenance outage, a double-load of nuclear material has been detected during the preparation of a grinding operation of waste nuclear material from an ancient industrial activity. The analysis demonstrated it was the result of an unrecorded material loading. Indeed, a set of non-approved procedures was used to compensate for a long lasting weight measurement failure. The insufficient information given by the shift-log did not allow the new team to be aware; the next grinding operation was prepared and a new load introduced in excess, in the machine. This event has been without any consequence for workers and the environment thanks to the fact that the double-loading hazard was initially accounted for by the safety provisions of the grinding machine.
ERF rating date: 16-11-2006
ERF contact person: David Landier
ERF address: 10 route du Panorama, BP 83, F 92266 Fontenay-Aux-Roses Cedex
ERF affiliation: ASN

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