INES Levels
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INES 0
INES 1
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INES 2: Incident

Impact on People and Environment:
  • Exposure of a member of the public in excess of 10 mSv.
  • Exposure of a worker in excess of the statutory annual limits.
Impact on Radiological Barriers and Control:
  • Radiation levels in an operating area of more than 50 mSv/h.
  • Significant contamination within the facility into an area not expected by design.
Impact on Defence-in-Depth:
  • 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.
▸ Legenda & explanation
date title location 
2006-06-02Potential Radiography OverexposureUnited States of AmericaLake Charles
2006-05-22Loss of Industrial Gamma Radiography Exposure Device (IGRED) containing Ir-192 sourceIndiaIndustrial Radiography
2006-05-01Radiographer OverexposureUnited States of AmericaTexas Gamma Ray
2006-03-06Spill of High-Enriched Uranium SolutionUnited States of AmericaWithheld
2006-03-03Radiographer OverexposureUnited States of AmericaNorth Kingston
2006-03-01Inoperability of 22 out of 61 control rods at Kozloduy NPP unit 5BulgariaKOZLODUY-5
2006-02-28Presumptive Radiographer Badge OverexposureUnited States of AmericaIngleside
2006-02-24Potential Extremity Overexposure at Texas A&M Research ReactorUnited States of AmericaTexas A&M University
2006-02-23Radiographer OverexposureUnited States of AmericaCarson
2005-12-22Overexposure of worker by unshielded sourceDenmarkZealand
2005-12-09Anomaly on safety pumps of 900 MW reactorsFranceAll NPP - generic
2005-12-05Both low head safety injection motors declared inoperable because of insufficient motor cooling water flowSouth AfricaKOEBERG-1
2005-11-18Radiographer OverexposureUnited States of AmericaSands Springs
2005-10-27Radiographer OverexposureUnited States of AmericaPhiladelphia
2005-09-01Worker overexposure during maintenanceArgentinaATUCHA-1
2005-08-14Theft of source pigtail containing Ir-192 radiography sourceIndiaIndustrial Radiography
2005-07-04Inadequate protection relays and related setpointsBelgiumTIHANGE-2
2005-04-11Three unshielded Cs-137 radioactive sources found at scrap yardNetherlandsJewometaal, Rotterdam-Botlek
2005-03-15Plant Design for Flooding Events May Not Mitigate the Consequences of Piping System FailuresUnited States of AmericaKEWAUNEE
2005-03-11Potential Radiation Overexposure of RadiographersUnited States of AmericaCarson
2005-03-10Overexposure of a worker at the Frederic Joliot hospital section in Orsay (91)FranceHospital
2005-01-17Radiographer OverexposureUnited States of AmericaPasadena
2004-12-20Radiographer OverexposureUnited States of AmericaHouston
2004-12-01Internal ExposureUnited States of AmericaHouston
2004-10-31Overexposure of RadiographerUnited States of AmericaPasadena
2004-09-27RADIOACTIVE ORPHANED SOURCES OF CS-137Argentinanon nuclear
2004-08-25Circumferential break of Essential Service Water (ESW) hatch neck pipeSpainVANDELLOS-2
2004-07-26Worker injured and contaminated at the French MOX processing plant MELOXFranceMELOX Fuel process plant
2004-07-09Potential Overexposure to Members of the PublicUnited States of AmericaState of Texas
2004-06-22Non-compliance with regulations during transport of radioactive materialSwitzerlandPaul Scherrer Institute; Wuerenlingen,