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INES 2: Incident

• Exposure of a member of the public in excess of 10 mSv.
• Exposure of a worker in excess of the statutory annual limits.

• Radiation levels in an operating area of more than 50 mSv/h.
• Significant contamination within the facility into an area not expected by design.

• Significant failures in safety ­provisions but with no actual ­consequences.
• Found highly radioactive sealed orphan source, device or transport package with safety provisions intact.
• Inadequate packaging of a highly radioactive sealed source.

date	title	location
2005-09-01	Worker overexposure during maintenance	Argentina	ATUCHA-1
1995-12-18	PRESSURE TUBE FAILURE AND SMALL LOCA IN EMBALSE NPP AFTER GARTER SPRING INSPECTION AND RELOCATION	Argentina	EMBALSE
2004-09-27	RADIOACTIVE ORPHANED SOURCES OF CS-137	Argentina	non nuclear
1998-06-04	Reactor discharge due to deterioration of quality of water in the secondary circuit (power reduction)	Armenia	ARMENIA-2
1998-07-13	Failure of safety system train during routine testing	Armenia	ARMENIA-2
2003-12-29	Unshielded radioactive source found in metal scrap	Armenia	Meghri
2009-08-28	Contamination of a vehicle with Cs-137	Armenia	NO facility associated to this event
2012-11-22	Potential exposure of airplane passengers to doses in excess of statutory limits for the public due to a damaged type A package	Australia	Frankfurt, Germany
2007-07-24	Displacement of fuel plates from their normal position in fuel assemblies during normal operation of research reactor	Australia	OPAL Research Reactor
2019-06-21	Hand contamination of radiation workers	Australia	Sydney, ANM Facility, ANSTO Lucas Heights
2013-05-02	Overexposure of 4 persons exceeding the statutory annual whole body dose limit for workers (20 mSv)	Austria	Nuclear Engineering Seiberdorf, Univ. Innsbruck
1992-07-30	FUEL ELEMENT DROP	Bangladesh	TRIGA MARK II
1993-02-02	CAPSULE BREAKAGE IN CENTRAL THIMBLE	Bangladesh	TRIGA MARK II
1997-07-14	Leakage of water in the primary cooling system of AERE Reasearch Centre	Bangladesh	TRIGA MARK II
2022-05-05	Exposure of industrial radiographer	Belgium	Antwerp Region
2011-10-04	Contamination of workers during inspection	Belgium	Belgoprocess
1993-11-13	UNCONTROLLED POWER TRANSIENT IN A TEST REACTOR WITH DEGRADATION OF THE TESTED IRRADIATED FUEL NEEDLE	Belgium	BR2
2006-10-05	Unavailabilty of containment cooling fans	Belgium	DOEL-1
1992-09-01	INCONCLUSIVE QUALIFICATION TEST RESULTS OF ELECTRIC CONNECTORS IN LOCA AND SLB ENVIRONMENT	Belgium	DOEL-3
2011-03-18	Inadequate setting of the auxiliary feedwater turbopump	Belgium	DOEL-4
1992-11-23	CONTAMINATION OF WORKERS DUE TO THE RUPTURE OF A MIXED OXIDE FUEL ROD DURING FABRICATION	Belgium	FBFC
2012-10-05	Overexposure of a worker	Belgium	IRM group sa - Alleur
1999-09-02	Inadvertent plutonium shipment from Belgium to United Kingdom	Belgium	IRMM, Geel
2017-07-25	Exposure of airplane passengers due to inadequate use of type B transport package	Belgium	NTP Europe
2021-01-27	Research reactor power detectors outside OL&C	Belgium	Research Reactor BR2 (SCK CEN)
2014-11-16	Realizing of maintenance activities without respecting the procedures	Belgium	Sterigenics
2009-05-07	Incident at Irradiation Facility	Belgium	STERIGENICS - Fleurus
2012-09-19	Overexposure of a radiographer	Belgium	Stork Technical Service
2002-11-22	Safety injection during hot shutdown at Tihange 2 unit	Belgium	TIHANGE-2
2005-07-04	Inadequate protection relays and related setpoints	Belgium	TIHANGE-2