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Sweden,
23 Nov 2021, INES: 2
On November 23, 2021 two workers were carrying out a pipe inspection using a portable X-ray generator. While trying to start up the X-ray generator after adjusting some parameters, the workers realized that the device was already on. The workers could not remember exactly when the X-ray generator...
Reported by
Swedish Radiation Safety Authority
of
Sweden
on
18 Jan 2022
Last update on 18 Jan 2022
Hungary,
10 Jan 2022, INES: 2
On 10th of January 2022, six pieces of Co-60 sealed radioactive sources, with 74 TBq activity each, were moved from a UKITB-250-6 type transport container at a working place of the Institute of Isotopes Ltd. During the procedure one sealed source was misplaced within the container into a less...
Reported by
Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority
of
Hungary
on
14 Jan 2022
Last update on 14 Jan 2022
United States of America,
22 Oct 2019, INES: 2
On October 22, 2019, a worker was manually drilling a container with 39.96 GBq (1080 mCi) of iridium-192 in ceramic tracer beads. The worker was not wearing eye or face shields. An accident occurred and material from the drilling struck the worker's face and eyes. Immediately after, the worker...
Reported by
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
of
United States of America
on
22 Dec 2021
Last update on 22 Dec 2021
United Kingdom,
22 Jul 2021, INES: 2
On the 22 July 2021 at 14:57, following failure of a National Grid transformer located offsite, Heysham 1 experienced a complete loss of 400kV power supplies. Both reactors were operating at nominal full power prior to the incident, and both tripped automatically.
The back-up power supply...
Reported by
Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR)
of
United Kingdom
on
01 Dec 2021
Last update on 10 Jan 2022
Spain,
20 Jul 2021, INES: 2
The dosimetry service of an industrial radiography facility identified that the TLD of two workers at this facility had exceeded the annual dose limit. The irradiation source was an Ir-192 gammagraph, in which the source got stuck during irradiation work.
The first worker had received a dose of...
Reported by
Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear (CSN)
of
Spain
on
26 Nov 2021
Last update on 26 Nov 2021
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