Europe: France

▸ Legenda & explanation
date INES title location
06-05-2019INES 2Emergency diesel generators - earthquake resistance riskCIVAUX-1
11-03-1999INES 2Dose to a worker exceeding a statutory annual dose limitTRICASTIN-1
09-10-2020INES 2Discovery of legacy radioactive sources and residual contaminationUniversity Hospitals of Strasbourg
13-05-1996INES 2Degradation of seismic stops of the reactor pitCHINON-B1
23-09-1991INES 2DEFECTS IN BUGEY AND FESSENHEIM POWER PLANT REACTOR VESSEL HEADSBUGEY-2
22-06-1991INES 2DEFECTIVE WELDS IN LOW PRESSURE SAFETY INJECTION SYSTEMBELLEVILLE-2
01-08-1991INES 2DEFECT IN THE COATING OF THE SUMPS (1300 PLANTS)PALUEL-2
09-04-2002INES 1Damage of a type "A" package during transhipment at Roissy airport (France) between Poland and UkraineRoissy Charles De Gaulle airport
21-07-2022INES 2Contamination of an employee and the break room in a nuclear medicine departmentSCINTIGARD radiology centre (Nîmes)
26-05-2010INES 2Contamination of 6 workers during the recovery of a gammagraphy Co-60 sourceindustrial radiography
07-10-2008INES 2Cobalt-60 contaminated elevator buttons sold abroad by a French companyMetallic products manufacturer
16-09-1991INES 2BORON MEASURING DEVICE CALIBRATION ERROR AT THE CHEMICAL LABORATORYCHINON-B1
30-06-2015INES 2Bordeaux University: discovery of radioactive sources and incidental exposure of personsBordeaux University
11-06-1998INES 2Automatic shutdown of the reactor caused by spurious triggering of the containment spray system and jamming of a control cluster in the high position during this shutdownBELLEVILLE-2
26-09-2012INES 2ASN decided to uprate as level 2 on the INES scale an event related to non-compliance with the requirements applicable to labelling, storage and on-site transfer of wet fissile materialsAREVA-FBFC
31-12-2003INES 2Anomaly on the water recirculation circuits of French pressurised water reactorsAll NPP - generic
09-12-2005INES 2Anomaly on safety pumps of 900 MW reactorsAll NPP - generic
24-04-2013INES 2Accidental exposure of a worker exceeding annual regulatory limit to the skinBLAYAIS-4
31-03-1994INES 2ACCIDENT CLOSE TO THE FORMER RAPSODIE REACTOR AT THE CADARACHE SITECADARACHE, RAPSODIE
21-08-1992INES 2ABNORMAL PRESENCE OF A FILTER ON A DRAINING CIRCUIT OF THE REACTOR CAVITYCATTENOM-1
14-10-2014INES 2A practitioner’s regulatory annual exposure dose limit was exceededBordeaux University Hospital - Pellegrin Hospital