Europe: France

▸ Legenda & explanation
date INES title location
14-10-2014INES 2A practitioner’s regulatory annual exposure dose limit was exceededBordeaux University Hospital - Pellegrin Hospital
21-08-1992INES 2ABNORMAL PRESENCE OF A FILTER ON A DRAINING CIRCUIT OF THE REACTOR CAVITYCATTENOM-1
31-03-1994INES 2ACCIDENT CLOSE TO THE FORMER RAPSODIE REACTOR AT THE CADARACHE SITECADARACHE, RAPSODIE
24-04-2013INES 2Accidental exposure of a worker exceeding annual regulatory limit to the skinBLAYAIS-4
09-12-2005INES 2Anomaly on safety pumps of 900 MW reactorsAll NPP - generic
31-12-2003INES 2Anomaly on the water recirculation circuits of French pressurised water reactorsAll NPP - generic
26-09-2012INES 2ASN decided to uprate as level 2 on the INES scale an event related to non-compliance with the requirements applicable to labelling, storage and on-site transfer of wet fissile materialsAREVA-FBFC
11-06-1998INES 2Automatic shutdown of the reactor caused by spurious triggering of the containment spray system and jamming of a control cluster in the high position during this shutdownBELLEVILLE-2
30-06-2015INES 2Bordeaux University: discovery of radioactive sources and incidental exposure of personsBordeaux University
16-09-1991INES 2BORON MEASURING DEVICE CALIBRATION ERROR AT THE CHEMICAL LABORATORYCHINON-B1
07-10-2008INES 2Cobalt-60 contaminated elevator buttons sold abroad by a French companyMetallic products manufacturer
26-05-2010INES 2Contamination of 6 workers during the recovery of a gammagraphy Co-60 sourceindustrial radiography
21-07-2022INES 2Contamination of an employee and the break room in a nuclear medicine departmentSCINTIGARD radiology centre (Nîmes)
09-04-2002INES 1Damage of a type "A" package during transhipment at Roissy airport (France) between Poland and UkraineRoissy Charles De Gaulle airport
01-08-1991INES 2DEFECT IN THE COATING OF THE SUMPS (1300 PLANTS)PALUEL-2
22-06-1991INES 2DEFECTIVE WELDS IN LOW PRESSURE SAFETY INJECTION SYSTEMBELLEVILLE-2
23-09-1991INES 2DEFECTS IN BUGEY AND FESSENHEIM POWER PLANT REACTOR VESSEL HEADSBUGEY-2
13-05-1996INES 2Degradation of seismic stops of the reactor pitCHINON-B1
09-10-2020INES 2Discovery of legacy radioactive sources and residual contaminationUniversity Hospitals of Strasbourg
11-03-1999INES 2Dose to a worker exceeding a statutory annual dose limitTRICASTIN-1
06-05-2019INES 2Emergency diesel generators - earthquake resistance riskCIVAUX-1
20-06-2017INES 2Emergency diesel generators auxiliary systems not compliant with seismic requirements on the 1300 MW reactors (8 sites - 20 reactors)BELLEVILLE-1
27-06-2000INES 2Error in operating rules leading to safety injection system unavailabilityDAMPIERRE-1
06-05-2013INES 2Exceeding of the maximum regulatory annual effective dose by a practitioner in interventional radiologyHospital "Institut Mutualiste Montsouris" (Paris)
07-03-1997INES 2Exceeding the required operating limits, aggravated by safety culture problemsPALUEL-1
12-09-2011INES 1Explosion and fire at Centraco CENTRACO waste processing and conditioning plantCENTRACO (Codolet, France)
18-04-2014INES 2Exposure of a worker during radiographic inspectionsDCNS site
23-08-2013INES 2Exposure of a worker in excess of statutory annual dose limitsLAMA (CEA Grenoble)
31-10-2022INES 2Exposure of a worker in excess of the statutory dose limitAperam Stainless Steel France
02-02-2023INES 2External contamination of a worker leading to exceeding of the annual statutory dose limitCATTENOM-3