date  | INES | title | location |
| 02-05-1997 | INES 2 | Workers receive dose exceeding statutory annual dose limit | KOEBERG-1, South Africa |
| 26-03-1997 | INES 1 | Worker contamination for AM-241 inhalation when manipulating a radiation detector | VANDELLOS-1, Spain |
| 23-03-1997 | INES 0 | Leakage on thge feedwater recirculation pipeline of the steam-generator no. 1 | BN-350, Kazakhstan |
| 11-03-1997 | INES 2 | Uncontrolled entry into room under reactor vessel during refuelling outage | KOEBERG-2, South Africa |
| 11-03-1997 | INES 3 | Fire and Explosion at the Bituminization Demonstration Facility of the Reprocessing Plant | TOKAI REPROCESSING PLANT, Japan |
| 07-03-1997 | INES 2 | Exceeding the required operating limits, aggravated by safety culture problems | PALUEL-1, France |
| 02-03-1997 | INES 0 | Reactor trip on PHT pressure less than 79.6 kg/cm2 for 15 seconds | KAKRAPAR-1, India |
| 05-02-1997 | INES 1 | Supposedly empty shipping containers found to contain nuclear material | ENUSA, Spain |
| 04-02-1997 | INES 0 | Reactor trip due to short circuit on control and protection system of generator | ARMENIA-2, Armenia |
| 03-02-1997 | INES 2 | Spillage of active liquor | BNFL, Sellafield, United Kingdom |
| 02-02-1997 | INES 2 | Release of airborne activity into the workplace resulted in a building evacuation | BNFL, Sellafield, United Kingdom |
| 17-01-1997 | INES 1 | Slow insertion of control rods | ALMARAZ-2, Spain |
| 17-01-1997 | INES 1 | Primary heat transport system leakage from coolant channel outlet feeder | POINT LEPREAU, Canada |
| 01-01-1997 | INES 0 | Inadvertent closure of the MSIV caused safety injection and plant trip | KRSKO, Slovenia |
| 14-12-1996 | INES 2 | Leakage on a piping connected to the primary circuit | DAMPIERRE-1, France |
| 21-11-1996 | INES 2 | Operation of unit with insufficient containment function | BORSSELE, Netherlands |
| 11-11-1996 | INES 0 | Small leak in one steam generator | KOZLODUY-6, Bulgaria |
| 01-11-1996 | INES 2 | One of the emergency core cooling systems - the core spray system - was unavailable at Oskarshamn-2 | OSKARSHAMN-2, Sweden |
| 08-10-1996 | INES 0 | Reactor trip due to short circuit on the high-voltage line | ARMENIA-2, Armenia |
| 06-10-1996 | INES 1 | Scram of the reactor caused by a wrong operation of the control room operator | DUKOVANY-4, Czech Republic |
| 04-10-1996 | INES 2 | Emergency water/reheater drains distribution header damage inside the steam generators | POINT LEPREAU, Canada |
| 14-09-1996 | INES 0 | Blockage of sea water screen by jellyfish | ULCHIN-2, South Korea |
| 19-08-1996 | INES 0 | RCIC turbine insulation fire | CLINTON-1, United States of America |
| 14-08-1996 | INES 0 | Reactor trip caused by blown fuses | KRSKO, Slovenia |
| 13-08-1996 | INES 1 | Water leak into a hot cell at the Studsvik research establishment | Studsvik Nuclear AB, Sweden |
| 11-08-1996 | INES 0 | Manual shutdown for repairing of main condenser tube | ULCHIN-1, South Korea |
| 07-08-1996 | INES 0 | Manual shutdown for repairing the steam generator tube leak | YONGGWANG-2, South Korea |
| 05-08-1996 | INES 1 | Release of iodine-131 from 131 production plant of nuclear chemistry division Pakistan Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology | PINSTEC, Pakistan |
| 03-08-1996 | [N/A] | Rupture of a freon storage tank | CERNAVODA-1, Romania |
| 24-07-1996 | INES 1 | On-site radioactive contamination | KHMELNITSKI-1, Ukraine |