Laka Foundation

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INES 3: Serious incident

Impact on People and Environment:
  • Exposure in excess of ten times the statutory annual limit for workers.
  • Non-lethal deterministic health effect (e.g., burns) from radiation.
Impact on Radiological Barriers and Control:
  • Exposure rates of more than 1 Sv/h in an operating area.
  • Severe contamination in an area not expected by design, with a low probability of ­significant public exposure.
Impact on Defence-in-Depth:
  • Near accident at a nuclear power plant with no safety provisions remaining.
  • Lost or stolen highly radioactive sealed source.
  • Misdelivered highly radioactive sealed source without adequate procedures in place to handle it.
Legenda & explanation
date title location 
1991-02-26INOPERABILITY OF VALVES AT THE DISCHARGE SIDE OF HPSI PUMPS IN THREE TRAINS DUE TO FAILURE TO CONNECT POWER CABLESUkraineKHMELNITSKI-1