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Korea, Republic of, 31 Dec 2016, INES: 3

Workers Exceeded Annual Whole Body Dose Limits

In December 2016, it was reported to the regulatory authority that an industrial radiography worker's personal dosimeter reading had exceeded the annual dose limit. An investigation revealed that the worker had been exposed to high levels of radiation on a night-field radiography work during...
Reported by Nuclear Safety and Security Commission (NSSC) of Korea, Republic of on 26 Dec 2024. Last update on 26 Dec 2024


Korea, Republic of, 03 Dec 2015, INES: 3

Accidential Exposure of Industrial Radiography Worker

On December 3, 2015, an industrial radiography worker repeatedly conducted NDT without realizing that a sealed radioactive source(Ir-192, 1.1 TBq) had not been properly retracted and remained at the end of the guide tube. On December 8, the worker began feeling symptoms such as pain, redness, and...
Reported by Nuclear Safety and Security Commission (NSSC) of Korea, Republic of on 26 Dec 2024. Last update on 26 Dec 2024


Korea, Republic of, 20 Apr 2015, INES: 2

Accidential Exposure of Industrial Radiography Worker

On April 20, 2015, two workers were conducting a industrial radiography for Non-Destructive Test on the welds of a large steel product. During the process, the guide tube of the irradiator was not properly connected, causing the radiation source (Co-60, 1.85 TBq) to be withdrawn but not retrieved....
Reported by Nuclear Safety and Security Commission (NSSC) of Korea, Republic of on 26 Dec 2024. Last update on 26 Dec 2024


Korea, Republic of, 26 Jun 2014, INES: 3

Accidential Exposure of Industrial Radiography Worker

On June 26, 2014, during the setup and operation of testing equipment for industrial radiography, a radiation exposure incident occurred. The support structure of the equipment fell onto the guide tube, causing it to deform and disabling the retrieval of the radiation source(Co-60, 2.1 TBq). While...
Reported by Nuclear Safety and Security Commission (NSSC) of Korea, Republic of on 26 Dec 2024. Last update on 26 Dec 2024


Spain, 13 Dec 2024, INES: 1

Package containing four radioactive sources lost.

On Thursday 12th December 2024, LOMA SYSTEMS S.R.O. sent from the Czech Republic a B(U) package, model NE4C, with 4 encapsulated radioactive sources of Se-75 (3.4 TBq each one), used for industrial radiography, to a radioactive facility located in Madrid. These sources are classified as category 2...
Reported by Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear (CSN) of Spain on 18 Dec 2024. Last update on 18 Dec 2024


Norway, 04 Sep 2024, INES: 1

Triggering of the fire sprinkler system in a fuel production facility at a research center

During an exercise, the fire sprinkler system in a laboratory building was activated. Approximately 2000 liters of water affected 9 rooms in the facility. The water was gathered and collected in storage tanks. No radioactive contamination was detected in the water nor in the equipment used in the...
Reported by Norwegian Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (DSA) of Norway on 17 Dec 2024. Last update on 17 Dec 2024


Mexico, 20 Nov 2024, INES: 0

Fuel misplaced

On November 20, 2024, at around 15:00 hours, during the inspection carried out by IAEA safeguards personnel to perform the Criticality test of the MXA-TRIGA Mark III Reactor and verify its reactor configuration, it was detected that in position B-1 of ring B, which should be empty according to the...
Reported by Comision Nacional de Seguridad Nuclear y Salvaguardias of Mexico on 23 Nov 2024. Last update on 23 Nov 2024


United States of America, 15 Dec 2022, INES: 2

Worker Overexposure

From September through December of 2022, a radioisotope processing facility had an equipment malfunction that caused syringes filled with Fluorine-18 to miss a shielding container and fall to the floor during production. During this time, workers retrieved the syringes by hand and manually loaded...
Reported by Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) of United States of America on 08 Nov 2024. Last update on 08 Nov 2024


Czech Republic, 11 Jan 2024, INES: 2

Unavailability of Reactor protection system of unit 3

Dukovany NPP is equipped by a digital Control and Protection system of Reactor. On January 11, 2024 Unit 3 of Dukovany NPP was a few days before refuelling outage, on stable operation on Power and Temperature effect with actual power 97 % Nnom, operation was in accordance with manuals. Routine...
Reported by State Office for Nuclear Safety of Czech Republic on 18 Oct 2024. Last update on 18 Oct 2024


Mexico, 20 Sep 2024, INES: 1

Theft of a nuclear gauge

On September 20, at approximately 16:51 (UTC-22.51), the theft of a CPN nuclear densimeter, model MC-1, serial number MD10700322, was reported to the CNSNS office, which contains the following radioactive sources: 1- Am-241/Be (with an activity today of 1.75 GBq) 2- Cs–137 (with an activity...
Reported by Comision Nacional de Seguridad Nuclear y Salvaguardias of Mexico on 23 Sep 2024. Last update on 10 Dec 2024


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