This Safety Guide provides recommendations on all the main components of operating experience feedback systems, utilizing relevant information on events and abnormal conditions that have occurred at nuclear installations around the world. It focuses on the interaction between the different systems for using operating experience feedback and constitutes an update and an extension of Part I: A Na…
This book consist : Introduction; Brief description of accidents; Major causes of accidents and lessons learned; and Prevention and remedial actions. (Jml)
On 21 October 1994, three brothers entered the radioactive waste repository at Tammiku, Estonia, without authorization and removed a metal container enclosing a radiation source. This action initiated the sequence of events in a radiological accident. The accident resulted in the death of one person and injury to a number of others. The death was not originally attributed to radiation exposure…
A radiological accident occurred on 6 April 1993 at the location then know as Tomsk-7 in the Russian Federation. Very soon after the event the Government of the Russian Federation requested assistance from the IAEA to assess the radiological, health and environmental impacts of the accident. The IAEA used its contacts and resources to assemble a mission. The mission arrived at Tomsk-7 on 15 Apr…
This book contain about Technologies that make use of radiation continue to spread around the world: millions of people are employed in radiation related occupations, and hundreds of millions of people benefit from these applications. Use of intense radiation sources for purposes such as sterilization of medical products requires special care in the design and operation of equipment to prevent …