The event concerns a risk of damage to the piping owing to their potential contact with the civil engineering structures of the emergency diesel generator (EDG) sets in the event of an earthquake. Depending on the reactor, emergency diesel generators and their platform are either fixed to the... Reported by Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire (ASN) of France on 28 May 2019 Last update on 28 May 2019
The worker concerned carries out climatic control and energy maintenance services on the sites of customers of Eiffage Energie Systeme. Some of these sites perform nuclear activities that can expose the workers (internal or external) to ionising radiation. As a prevention measure, this worker was... Reported by Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire (ASN) of France on 27 May 2019 Last update on 27 May 2019
On 2nd of January 2019, National Radiation Protection Department (NRPD) was received a report regarding the overexposure of two workers on 18th of December 2018. According to the report of the licensee that is a private company, after the performance of industrial radiography in KHORASANE RAZAVI... Reported by Iran Nuclear Regulatory Authority (INRA) of Iran, Islamic Republic of on 13 May 2019 Last update on 13 May 2019
A radiographer working in the permanent shooting room at one of the licensee’s facilities, cranked out a 2.48 TBq (67 Ci) Ir-192 source for an exposure and did not crank the source back into the exposure device before setting up for the next exposure. Upon badge processing, it was determined that... Reported by Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) of United States of America on 19 Apr 2019 Last update on 19 Apr 2019
A Co60 source was found in a container on the site of a metal recycling company near the Port of Hamburg. It was part of a scrap metal delivery originating from Western Africa. The source was finally identified as a metal cylinder of approx. 1 cm radius and 10 cm length packed in a cloth bag. The... Reported by Gesellschaft für Anlagen und Reaktorsicherheit of Germany on 22 Mar 2019 Last update on 22 Mar 2019