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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
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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
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United States of America,
06 Oct 2021, INES: 2
A radiographer received approximately 0.093 Sv (9.3 rem) when a radiography source was unable to be retracted into an industrial radiography device. The radiographer handled the guide tube and collimator with the 3.367 TBq (91 Ci) Ir-192 source in an unshielded position. Dose reconstruction and...
Reported by
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
of
United States of America
on
21 Oct 2021.
Last update on 21 Oct 2021
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France,
24 Aug 2021, INES: 2
On 27 August 2021, ASN (Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire), the French nuclear regulator, was notified by the Cruas nuclear power plant licensee of a significant radiation protection event concerning the exceeding of an annual individual dose limit by an EDF employee.
On 24 August 2021, two operators...
Reported by
Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire (ASN)
of
France
on
07 Sep 2021.
Last update on 07 Sep 2021
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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
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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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Hungary,
23 May 2021, INES: 1
The VOLVID PLC conducted gamma radiography to inspect welded joints at an industrial site of Borsodchem PLC at Kacincbarcika. The inspection was executed by a GammaMat SE device, containing a Category 3 Se-75 sealed radioactive source with 1,71 TBq activity. Upon competition of the inspection, the...
Reported by
Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority
of
Hungary
on
14 Sep 2021.
Last update on 14 Sep 2021
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United States of America,
11 Mar 2021, INES: 2
A radiographer was exposed to Ir-192 sources while working with industrial radiography cameras at a permanent fixed facility. The badge showed the individual involved received a dose of 0.07 Sv (7.2 rem). The radiographer potentially used different radiography cameras with different sources...
Reported by
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
of
United States of America
on
17 Mar 2021.
Last update on 17 Mar 2021
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Hungary,
11 Feb 2021, INES: 1
On the 11th of February 2021, the on duty operator realized that according to the Nitrogen Monitoring system, the pressure of the monitoring space no. 18/7 has decreased to 800 mbar (however it still has not reached the value described in OL&C). After consulting leaders it has been decided to...
Reported by
Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority
of
Hungary
on
17 Feb 2021.
Last update on 17 Feb 2021
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Mexico,
08 Feb 2021, INES: 1
On February 8, 2021, the CNSNS received a notification about the theft of a radiography camera (model DELTA 880).
The camera was stolen when the radiographer was forced to pull over by criminals. The DELTA 880 camera serial number is D2766 and contains a category 2 radioactive source of...
Reported by
Comision Nacional de Seguridad Nuclear y Salvaguardias
of
Mexico
on
09 Feb 2021.
Last update on 16 Feb 2021
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Belgium,
27 Jan 2021, INES: 2
During production of medical isotopes, the reactor power measurement chains are displaced to ease this process. Due to this displacement of the power measurements detectors, the measurement range was below the limit of 90 % (which is the limit as described in the Technical Specifications of the...
Reported by
Federal Agency for Nuclear Control (FANC)
of
Belgium
on
02 Feb 2021.
Last update on 02 Feb 2021
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Pakistan,
09 Jan 2021, INES: 0
On January 09, 2021, C-1, C-2, C-3 and C-4 situated at Chashma Nuclear Power Generating Station faced severe grid fluctuations during operation at around 2341 hrs due to country wide power breakdown. C-1, C-2 and C-4 tripped on 'Reactor Coolant Pump (RCP) Bus Under Frequency' while C-3 tripped on...
Reported by
Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority (PNRA)
of
Pakistan
on
02 Mar 2021.
Last update on 02 Mar 2021
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United Kingdom,
11 Dec 2020, INES: 2
The incident occurred at a radio-pharmacy facility used to produce Technetium-99m doses for medical purposes. One operator received a needle stick injury during the drawing of radiopharmaceutical doses from Technetium-99m elute stock.
Dose estimates have been made based upon assumptions that were...
Reported by
Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR)
of
United Kingdom
on
19 Oct 2021.
Last update on 19 Oct 2021
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Germany,
08 Dec 2020, INES: 2
As part of the 177Lu production in an industrial application center (production of radio-pharmaceuticals in radionuclide laboratories) when working in a glove box, a used can-nula was accidentally placed on the floor of the glove box when attempting to throw it into the designated collecting...
Reported by
Gesellschaft für Anlagen und Reaktorsicherheit
of
Germany
on
28 Jan 2021.
Last update on 28 Jan 2021
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Finland,
28 Nov 2020, INES: 1
Several orphan Am-241 sources, which were inadvertently included in scrap metal, were melted in a Finnish steel factory. One event happened in 2019 and four events in 2020 as follows
- 2019, January 18th, estimated activity 1 100 MBq
- 2020, February 28th, estimated activity 1 400 MBq
- 2020,...
Reported by
Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK)
of
Finland
on
08 Apr 2021.
Last update on 08 Apr 2021
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Iran, Islamic Republic of,
24 Nov 2020, INES: 1
On 24th of November 2020, National Radiation Protection Department (NRPD) received an alarm from a radiation portal monitoring system installed in northwest border for monitoring trucks carrying imported goods.
Reported count rate from the truck loaded with copper scrap metals was 10 times of...
Reported by
Iran Nuclear Regulatory Authority (INRA)
of
Iran, Islamic Republic of
on
09 Mar 2021.
Last update on 09 Mar 2021
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France,
09 Oct 2020, INES: 2
The discovery by the University Hospitals of Strasbourg (HUS) of legacy radioactive sources and residual radioactive contamination in a building on the site of the Civil Hospital of Strasbourg was reported on the ASN website on 12 October 2020. Since that date, substantial investigations and...
Reported by
Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire (ASN)
of
France
on
07 Sep 2021.
Last update on 07 Sep 2021
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Mexico,
19 Sep 2020, INES: 1
On September 19, 2020, was stolen from the back of a vehicle parked on public roads the theft an industrial radiography camera (model SPEC 150) owned by the company Radiografía y Ultrasonido Industrial de Veracruz S.A. of C.V.
The equipment contains a category 2 radioactive source of Iridium-192...
Reported by
Comision Nacional de Seguridad Nuclear y Salvaguardias
of
Mexico
on
08 Mar 2021.
Last update on 08 Mar 2021
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Germany,
31 Jul 2020, INES: 2
In July 2020 an incident happened at a company in Bavaria, Germany. According to the company's radiation protection supervisor, the X-ray sources of the thickness measuring system to be checked by a worker of a measurement technology company can be con-sidered as the cause of the exposure. It seems...
Reported by
Gesellschaft für Anlagen und Reaktorsicherheit
of
Germany
on
09 Feb 2021.
Last update on 09 Feb 2021
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Germany,
02 Jul 2020, INES: 2
An employee of a company producing machines with integrated X-ray equipment for the determination of the basis weight was unintendedly exposed to radiation during necessary testing work. For the testing, the company concerned uses a self-made radiation protection cabinet, which is equipped with an...
Reported by
Gesellschaft für Anlagen und Reaktorsicherheit
of
Germany
on
01 Mar 2021.
Last update on 01 Mar 2021
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Germany,
31 Jan 2020, INES: 2
The evaluation of the OSL (Optically Stimulated Luminescence) whole-body dosimeter of a hospital employee showed a reading of 24.2 mSv. This exceeds the German statuary annual dose limit for the whole-body dose of exposed radiation personnel of 20 mSv. The person concerned showed no deterministic...
Reported by
Gesellschaft für Anlagen und Reaktorsicherheit
of
Germany
on
21 Jan 2021.
Last update on 21 Jan 2021
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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
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