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Event Report Forms (ERFs) are filed to the IAEA. Sometimes there are multiple event reports, updating the rating, the event description. Here you only see the latest event report

ERF send date: Tue, 02-09-2008
ERF description: The waste division of the Institute for radioelements (IRE) has performed a transfer of liquid radioactive waste from one tank to another one. Immediately afterwards – for reasons still unknown – radioactivity was released through the stack. The release is related to the vapour phase above a liquid waste solution in a tank.
The quantity of radioactivity released into the environment is estimated at 45 GBq I-131, which corresponds to a dose of 160 microsievert (effective dose) for a hypothetical person remaining permanently at the site’s enclosure.

Note that the actual rating is based on the INES 2001-Manual and its corresponding addenda

This incident did not cause a contamination of the personnel, and their dose limits were neither exceeded.

The FANC requested the shutdown of the production till the solution of the problem.



ERF rating date: 27-08-2008
ERF contact person: Tombuyses
ERF address: Rue ravenstein 36 - 1000 Brussels
ERF affiliation: FANC

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