Stichting Laka

INES 2: Incident

• Exposure of a member of the public in excess of 10 mSv.
• Exposure of a worker in excess of the statutory annual limits.

• Radiation levels in an operating area of more than 50 mSv/h.
• Significant contamination within the facility into an area not expected by design.

• Significant failures in safety ­provisions but with no actual ­consequences.
• Found highly radioactive sealed orphan source, device or transport package with safety provisions intact.
• Inadequate packaging of a highly radioactive sealed source.

date	title	location
2011-03-18	Inadequate setting of the auxiliary feedwater turbopump	Belgium	DOEL-4
2005-07-04	Inadequate protection relays and related setpoints	Belgium	TIHANGE-2
1990-07-01	IMPACT ON SAFETY DUE TO VIOLATION OF OPERATIONAL LIMITS AND CONDITIONS (IMPURITY DUE TO AIR INGRESS)	France	CREYS-MALVILLE
1990-10-01	IMPACT ON SAFETY DUE TO PARTIAL INOPERABILITY OF THE LONG TERM COOLING SYSTEM (WATER SUMP FILTERS)	France	PALUEL-1
1990-08-22	IMPACT ON SAFETY DUE TO INOPERABILITY OF A SAFETY SYSTEM DESIGNED FOR ACCIDENT MITIGATION (CONTAINMENT SAND FILTERS)	France	TRICASTIN-1
2022-01-10	Higher dose rate in an operating area due to inappropriate positioning of a Co-60 source	Hungary	Institute of Isotopes Ltd. Budapest
1994-10-20	HEAVY WATER SPILLAGE IN CONTAINMENT	South Korea	WOLSONG-3
2020-12-11	Hands skin exposure	United Kingdom	Wales, F-18 Radio-pharmacy
2019-06-21	Hand contamination of radiation workers	Australia	Sydney, ANM Facility, ANSTO Lucas Heights
2019-03-31	Hand contamination and overexposure of workers at a nuclear medical facility	United Kingdom	PET Scanning Facility, UK
2004-03-09	Generic anomaly on some power supply boxes of the French pressurised water reactors	France	All NPP - generic
1992-07-30	FUEL ELEMENT DROP	Bangladesh	TRIGA MARK II
1998-11-21	Fuel assembly drop during refuelling	Mexico	LAGUNA VERDE-1
1997-08-22	Fresh fuel assembly damage during refuelling	Ukraine	SOUTH UKRAINE-2
1991-01-15	FIRE OF BUSES OF SECOND CATEGORY OF RELIABILITY BUSES	Slovakia	BOHUNICE-2
1991-04-12	FIRE IN SWITCHGEAR BUILDING	Finland	OLKILUOTO-2
2000-09-11	Finding of abandoned radioactive source in the street	Peru	PERU radiation source
1993-02-25	FEEDWATER PIPE RUPTURE	Finland	LOVIISA-2
1994-06-03	FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS FOR OPERATION AT REACTOR 4	France	TRICASTIN-4
2011-03-11	Failure of the reactor component cooling water system and others by tsunami	Japan	ONAGAWA-2
1995-06-09	FAILURE OF THE ACCESS CONTROL SYSTEM ON THE LARGE HEAVY ION ACCELERATOR GANIL	France	GANIL
1991-05-16	FAILURE OF SAFETY SYSTEM TRAIN WHILE ROUTINE TESTING	Russian Federation	KOLA-3
1998-07-13	Failure of safety system train during routine testing	Armenia	ARMENIA-2
2003-06-29	FAILURE OF FIXED GAUGING DEVICE RESULTING IN RADIATION EXPOSURE TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC	United States of America	Monsanto Chemical Plant
2009-10-06	Failure in fissile material accountability	France	CADARACHE
1994-01-29	FAILING TO COMPLY WITH THE OPERATING PROCEDURES	France	BUGEY-5
2019-06-21	Eye contamination with Ga-68 droplet	Switzerland	Radiopharmacy in a hospital
2010-08-04	Extremity Overexposure	United States of America	ISOAID, LLC/Port Richey, FL
2018-12-31	External corrosion affecting multiple systems on a power reactor	United Kingdom	DUNGENESS B
2021-08-24	External contamination of a worker leading to exceeding of the regulatory annual limit for the equivalent dose to the skin	France	CRUAS-2