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
2003-11-11	Unshielded strontium-90 (Sr-90/Y-90) radioactive source found in metalscrap from Nigeria	Netherlands	REUKEMA BLOCQ EN MANESCHIJN B.V., Harderwijk
2019-03-07	Dangerous Co60 sources discovered in scrap metal containers	Netherlands	Port of Rotterdam
2013-10-26	Deficiency in the determination of the uranium content of liquid waste tanks	Netherlands	Molybdenum Production Facility / Petten
2013-10-17	Deficiency in the determination of the uranium content of liquid waste tanks	Netherlands	Molybdenum Production Facility / Petten
2001-07-03	Unshielded strontium-90 source found at scrapyard	Netherlands	Jewometaal, Rotterdam-Botlek
2003-08-07	One unshielded and two shielded Cs-137 radioactive sources found at a scrap yard	Netherlands	Jewometaal, Rotterdam-Botlek
2005-04-11	Three unshielded Cs-137 radioactive sources found at scrap yard	Netherlands	Jewometaal, Rotterdam-Botlek
2013-02-19	Deficiency in the safety evaluation of the primary reactor drain line	Netherlands	High Flux Reactor Petten
2013-09-26	Common cause mechanical deficiency in control rods	Netherlands	High Flux Reactor / Petten
1996-11-21	Operation of unit with insufficient containment function	Netherlands	BORSSELE
2017-04-23	Stolen source in Tlaquepaque, Jalisco	Mexico	Tlaquepaque, Jalisco
2019-09-25	STOLEN DENSITITY GAUGE	Mexico	Reynosa, Tamaulipas
2011-01-19	Reactor trip due to high pressure in the reactor pressure vessel	Mexico	LAGUNA VERDE-2
2019-11-16	Potential uncontrolled access to room with radiation greater than 1000 mR / hr	Mexico	LAGUNA VERDE-1
2019-02-12	Potential uncontrolled access to room with radiation greater than 1000 mR / hr	Mexico	LAGUNA VERDE-1
2002-07-12	Engineering Safety Feature Inoperative at Laguna Verde NPP-1	Mexico	LAGUNA VERDE-1
1998-11-21	Fuel assembly drop during refuelling	Mexico	LAGUNA VERDE-1
2002-11-28	Internal contamination of workers in a Medical Center	Mexico	Centro Medico Siglo XXI
1990-09-18	SPURIOUS ACTUATION OF 2 MAIN SAFETY VALVES OUT OF TWELVE	Lithuania	IGNALINA-1
1990-10-04	TG 2 TRIP DUE TO DEENERGIZATION OF 6 & 0.4 KV BUSES AND FAILURE OF TG STANDBY OIL PUMP TO START	Lithuania	IGNALINA-1
1993-12-27	RADIATION EXPOSURE OF WORKERS AT TOKAI REPROCESSING PLANT	Japan	TOKAI REPROCESSING PLANT
1999-06-18	Criticality accident during periodic inspection	Japan	SHIKA-1
2008-09-11	Radiation Overexposure of a Worker	Japan	S.H.I.Examination & Inspection Ltd / Ehime prefecture
2011-03-11	Failure of the reactor component cooling water system and others by tsunami	Japan	ONAGAWA-2
2017-06-06	Exposure of Workers at Plutonium Fuel Research Facility	Japan	Oarai Research and Development Center
1991-02-09	STEAM GENERATOR TUBE BREAK	Japan	MIHAMA-2
2008-10-23	Unsuitable management of Bakelite plates containing radioactive materials	Japan	Bunkyo-city, Tokyo
2001-10-15	Cobalt-60 contaminated steel slabs sent to Italian shipyard from a foundry in Macedonia	Italy	SHIPYARDS
2010-07-20	Co-60 orphan source discovered in a container of metal scraps in the Genova Port	Italy	Genova port
2004-01-12	Cs137 shielded radioactive source smelted in metal recycling facility	Italy	Acciaierie Beltrame, metal recycling facility, Vicenza