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
2010-09-17	Inadvertent Containment Spray of Reactor Coolant	South Korea	SHINKORI-1
2012-02-09	Loss of shutdown cooling due to station blackout during refueling outage	South Korea	KORI-1
2019-05-10	Auxiliary feedwater system actuation and manual reactor trip due to careless withdrawal of control rods at Hanbit Unit 1	South Korea	HANBIT-1
2008-11-04	Overexposure of field radiography workers	South Korea	Argus/ Yeosu, South Korea
1998-05-08	Loss of 4 TBq of Mo-99 in B(U) Packaging	South Africa	SOUTH AFRICAN AE CORP.
1999-03-04	Loss of 7 TBq of Mo-99 in B(U) packaging	South Africa	SOUTH AFRICAN AE CORP.
1998-05-08	Loss of 4 TBq of Mo-99 in B(U) packaging	South Africa	SOUTH AFRICAN AE CORP.
1997-03-11	Uncontrolled entry into room under reactor vessel during refuelling outage	South Africa	KOEBERG-2
1997-05-02	Workers receive dose exceeding statutory annual dose limit	South Africa	KOEBERG-1
2005-12-05	Both low head safety injection motors declared inoperable because of insufficient motor cooling water flow	South Africa	KOEBERG-1
2016-11-06	Transport of package containing a radioactive source from Kenya to South Africa	South Africa	From Kenya to South Africa
2003-07-16	Discovery of a Cs-source in scrap	Slovenia	Shipment of scrap
2013-10-31	Exposure of workers performing industrial radiography	Slovenia	building construction site of thermo PP Šoštanj
1991-01-15	FIRE OF BUSES OF SECOND CATEGORY OF RELIABILITY BUSES	Slovakia	BOHUNICE-2
1991-10-25	BORATED WATER STORAGE TANK LEVEL REDUCTION TO 180 M3	Russian Federation	NOVOVORONEZH-4
1992-03-24	UNIT SHUTDOWN DUE TO DEPRESSURIZATION OF ONE FUEL CHANNEL	Russian Federation	LENINGRAD-3
1995-11-21	PERSONNEL OVEREXPOSURE DURING FUEL ASSEMBLY EXTRACTION	Russian Federation	KURSK-4
1991-05-16	FAILURE OF SAFETY SYSTEM TRAIN WHILE ROUTINE TESTING	Russian Federation	KOLA-3
1994-03-03	COOLANT LEAK FROM THE AUXILIARY PRIMARY CIRCUIT CLEANUP SYSTEM DURING COOLDOWN OF THE PRIMARY CIRCUIT	Russian Federation	KOLA-2
1992-11-17	UNIT SCRAM OWING TO LOSS OF DC PANEL POWER	Russian Federation	KOLA-1
1998-03-14	Radiation overexposure of personnel while performing refuellig activities	Russian Federation	BILIBINO UNIT D
1992-12-23	RADIOACTIVITY RELEASE OUTSIDE LIQUID RADWASTE STORAGE BOUNDARY	Russian Federation	BELOYARSKY-3(BN-600)
1996-05-03	Radioactive contamination of the fertilizer due to Co-60 source failure	Romania	SOFERT RACAU FACTORY
2006-07-24	Lost of type A radioactive package during transport from Brussels to Bucharest	Romania	International Transport
2015-01-28	Overexposure of a worker	Poland	National Centre for Nuclear Research
2013-05-20	Overexposure of radiographers	Peru	Project EPC-30, Plant of Malvinas, Cusco
2000-09-11	Finding of abandoned radioactive source in the street	Peru	PERU radiation source
2017-08-04	Overexposure of Workers after Moderator Heavy Water Leak from Bonnet Gasket of Moderator Storage Tank Outlet Valve	Pakistan	KANUPP-1
2014-07-17	Overexposure to workers to radiografic source	Norway	Oceaneering Asset Integrity
2014-09-08	Overexposure of radiographyworker over the annual limit	Norway	Inspecta, Randaberg, Stavanger