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Hungary,
21 Jan 2019, INES: 1
On the 21st of January 2019 a well-logging geophysical probe containing 239 GBq activity 241-Am-Be sealed source was dropped to the bottom of a1800 m deep well near Pecs city, Hungary. The cause of the event was the break of the probe head due to material failure. The measurements of the drilling...
Reported by
Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority
of
Hungary
on
08 Feb 2019.
Last update on 08 Feb 2019
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India,
16 Jan 2019, INES: 1
On January 14, 2019, a shielded container (Type-A package) having Cs-137 source of 80 GBq (meant for well logging purpose) was transported in a vehicle from the drilling site (Malleshwaram, Andhra Pradesh) to logging base of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC), Rajahmundry in Andhra...
Reported by
Atomic Energy Regulatory Board
of
India
on
31 Jan 2019.
Last update on 31 Jan 2019
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United Kingdom,
31 Dec 2018, INES: 2
In September 2018, as part of a regulatory intervention on external corrosion management, the UK nuclear safety regulator (Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR)) issued a direction for Dungeness B nuclear power station to carry out a review and reassessment of safety addressing the corrosion of...
Reported by
Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR)
of
United Kingdom
on
17 Jan 2019.
Last update on 17 Jan 2019
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Switzerland,
18 Dec 2018, INES: 1
On 18 December 2018, a Tc-99m generator was reported missing after delivery early in the morning by a nuclear medicine institute in Sion (Switzerland). The generator from the company BE-Imaging (approx. 15cm x 30cm) contains 35.4 GBq Mo-99. An investigation was opened by the police to determine the...
Reported by
Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate - ENSI
of
Switzerland
on
19 Dec 2018.
Last update on 19 Dec 2018
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Finland,
21 Sep 2018, INES: 1
An orphan Am-241 source, which was inadvertently included in scrap metal, was melted on September 21st, 2018 in a Finnish steel factory. The melting of the source was detected by the radiation pulse rate monitoring within the steelworks smelting process.
The activity of melted source can not be...
Reported by
Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK)
of
Finland
on
16 Oct 2018.
Last update on 16 Oct 2018
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Finland,
15 Sep 2018, INES: 1
An orphan Am-241 source, which was inadvertently included in scrap metal, was melted on September 15th, 2018 in a Finnish steel factory. The melting of the source was detected by the radiation pulse rate monitoring within the steelworks smelting process.
The activity of melted the source can not...
Reported by
Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK)
of
Finland
on
16 Oct 2018.
Last update on 16 Oct 2018
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Finland,
26 Jul 2018, INES: 1
An orphan Am-241 source, which was inadvertently included in scrap metal, was melted on July 26th, 2018 in a Finnish steel factory. The melting of the source was detected by the radiation pulse rate monitoring within the steelworks smelting process.
The activity of the melted source can not be...
Reported by
Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK)
of
Finland
on
16 Oct 2018.
Last update on 17 Oct 2018
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United Kingdom,
24 Sep 2018, INES: 2
On 24 September 2018 two Americium-241/Beryllium (Am-241/Be) industrial radiography sources, each with an activity of 666GBq, were transiting through Heathrow airport (London). On arrival at Heathrow the sources were rejected for onward airfreight due to the inability to X-ray the contents. The...
Reported by
Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR)
of
United Kingdom
on
12 Oct 2018.
Last update on 12 Oct 2018
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United States of America,
06 May 2015, INES: 2
On 5/6/2015, a worker received an extremity overexposure while conducting radiographic operations at an industrial facility. A radio communication that occurred while the radiographer was relocating the collimator was misunderstood by the radiographer assistant as direction to crank out the 2.59...
Reported by
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
of
United States of America
on
31 Jul 2018.
Last update on 31 Jul 2018
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Mexico,
06 Jul 2018, INES: 1
On July 8th. 2018, the National Commission for Nuclear Safety and Safeguards was informed that an industrial radiography device was stolen, with an Ir-192 radioactive source inside.
The event occurred on July 6th. 2018, aproximately at 15:00 hours (EST), in Mexico City, when an employee of a...
Reported by
Comision Nacional de Seguridad Nuclear y Salvaguardias
of
Mexico
on
09 Jul 2018.
Last update on 23 Jul 2018
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