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United Kingdom,
31 Mar 2019, INES: 2
During the dispensing of Flourine-18 vials for medical purposes two operators received radioactive contamination to their hands. The incident occurred in a radiopharmacy associated with a positron emission tomography (PET) scanning facility. The presence of Flourine-18 on the hands of two operators...
Reported by
Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR)
of
United Kingdom
on
19 Sep 2019.
Last update on 19 Sep 2019
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Australia,
21 Jun 2019, INES: 2
Three operators were contaminated during the transfer of a Mo-99 inner container from the packaging hot cell to the helium leak test station inside the facility. The inner container was loaded with Mo-99 product in a bottle.
The outer surface of the inner container was cross contaminated with...
Reported by
Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency
of
Australia
on
09 Jul 2019.
Last update on 06 Aug 2019
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India,
26 Jun 2019, INES: 1
On June 25, 2019, a radiography agency undertook transportation of an industrial radiography exposure device (model Delta-880) containing Ir-192 source of 1.53 TBq in a vehicle from Navi Mumbai to a radiography site at Shikrapur, Pune in Maharashtra. Three persons i.e. a radiographer, a driver and...
Reported by
Atomic Energy Regulatory Board
of
India
on
08 Jul 2019.
Last update on 08 Jul 2019
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France,
06 May 2019, INES: 2
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
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France,
24 Apr 2019, INES: 2
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
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Iran, Islamic Republic of,
18 Dec 2018, INES: 3
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
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United States of America,
11 Apr 2019, INES: 2
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
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Germany,
11 Jan 2019, INES: 1
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
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Netherlands,
07 Mar 2019, INES: 2
On 13 November 2018, 28 January 2019 and 7 March 2019 potentially dangerous Co-60 sources were found in scrap metal containers. In all cases, the sources were discovered as a result of the triggering of alarms of radiation detection portal monitors.
In the three shipments, identical sources...
Reported by
Authority for Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection
of
Netherlands
on
21 Mar 2019.
Last update on 21 Mar 2019
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Mexico,
12 Feb 2019, INES: 2
Event Description
On February 12, 2019, while preparations for leak testing were made to valve 1-FPCC-MV-7948 by predictive maintenance personnel, they reported to the technician of the reactor control point that the shield that serves as a barrier to controlling the area with high radiation>...
Reported by
Comision Nacional de Seguridad Nuclear y Salvaguardias
of
Mexico
on
19 Mar 2019.
Last update on 19 Mar 2019
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