Stichting Laka

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
1999-07-17	Workers exposure exceeding a statutory annual dose limit	Ukraine	CHERNOBYL-3
1991-08-10	PRIMARY WATER SPILLAGE WHILE REPAIR OF THE GATE VALVE AT RCP SUCTION DURING SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE	Ukraine	CHERNOBYL-2
1991-10-11	UNIT SHUTDOWN DUE TO FIRE IN THE TURBINE BUILDING CAUSED BY ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT FAILURE	Ukraine	CHERNOBYL-2
1991-07-01	NEW FUEL ASSEMBLY DROPPING WHILE REFUELING	Ukraine	CHERNOBYL-2
2016-10-19	Overexposure of a member of the public	Turkey	Sakarya province
2019-06-21	Eye contamination with Ga-68 droplet	Switzerland	Radiopharmacy in a hospital
2004-06-22	Non-compliance with regulations during transport of radioactive material	Switzerland	Paul Scherrer Institute; Wuerenlingen,
2010-08-31	Exposure of a worker in excess of statutory annual dose limits	Switzerland	LEIBSTADT
2009-08-03	Exposure of two workers in excess of statutory annual dose limits	Switzerland	BEZNAU-2
1974-08-20	EXCESSIVE DEPRESSURIZATION OF THE PRIMARY CIRCUIT DUE TO A PRESSURIZER SAFETY VALVE THAT FAILED TO CLOSE	Switzerland	BEZNAU-1
2016-10-07	Cyclotron operated with an open bunker door	Sweden	University Hospital of Umeå
2017-09-21	Contamination event at research facility	Sweden	Studsvik Nuclear AB
1997-09-27	Closed valves in the containment spray pumps' suction lines during the non-nuclear phase of start-up after refueling	Sweden	RINGHALS-4
1994-10-03	STEAM GENERATOR SAFETY VALVES WERE NOT FUNCTIONING ACCORDING TO SPECIFICATIONS	Sweden	RINGHALS-2
1995-10-19	OVEREXPOSURE OF A WORKER AT THE RESEARCH REACTOR R2-0 IN STUDSVIK AT UPPSALA UNIVERSITY'S NEUTRON RESEARCH FACILITY	Sweden	R2 STUDSVIK
1987-11-20	CRITICALITY SHUT DOWN MARGIN MEASUREMENT STARTED WITHOUT HYDRAULIC SCRAM SYSTEM BEING OPERABLE	Sweden	OSKARSHAMN-3
1996-11-01	One of the emergency core cooling systems - the core spray system - was unavailable at Oskarshamn-2	Sweden	OSKARSHAMN-2
2021-11-23	Exposure of workers in excess of statutory annual dose limits	Sweden	Norrköping
2006-07-25	Two emergency dieselgenerators did not start when the unit was disconnected from the ordinary off site grid.	Sweden	FORSMARK-1
2010-12-02	Several mine workers overexposed by X-rays	Sweden	Boliden Mineral, Gällivare
1992-07-28	CLOGGED PUMP SUCTION STRAINERS IN THE WET WELL POOL	Sweden	BARSEBECK-2
1999-05-25	Temporary Loss of the seawater cooling systems	Sweden	BARSEBECK-2
2019-09-20	Overexposure of a worker while performing industrial radiography	Spain	Victoria-Control and Inspection Services
2004-08-25	Circumferential break of Essential Service Water (ESW) hatch neck pipe	Spain	VANDELLOS-2
1992-01-31	DETECTION OF A DESIGN ERROR INTHE LEVEL INSTRUMENTATION IN THE ANNULUS OUTSIDE THE CONTAINMENT SPHERE (BETWEEN THE SPHERE AND THE CONTAINMENT BUILDING)	Spain	TRILLO-1
2004-04-22	Workers overexposure	Spain	SGS TECNOS,S.A.
2021-07-20	Overexposure of two workers	Spain	OCA ICP, Madrid
2008-04-04	RADIACTIVE PARTICLES FOUNDED IN ASCÓ NPP SITE	Spain	ASCO-1
2012-05-09	Discovery of orphan source in a steel mill	Spain	Alcal
1994-10-20	HEAVY WATER SPILLAGE IN CONTAINMENT	South Korea	WOLSONG-3