Re: incident in Spain

[Jose Julio Rozental <joseroze@netvision.net.il>]

incident in SpainColleagues interested can find details at the Spain's Nuclear Safety Council site, in Spanish

http://www.csn.es/plantillas/index.jsp



Or in Spanish and translated to English at http://es.news.yahoo.com/040430/4/3dylc.html

Interesting to use the event in training courses and to discuss the Regulatory Authority's requirements 



Jose Julio Rozental

joseroze@netvision.net.il

Israel

  ----- Original Message ----- 

  From: Franta, Jaroslav 

  To: Radsafe (E-mail) 

  Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 5:11 PM

  Subject: incident in Spain





  NUCLEAR NEWS FLASHES - Friday, April 30, 2004 

  INTERNATIONAL: 

  --TWO SPANISH RADIOGRAPHERS WERE OVEREXPOSED APRIL 28 by a 733-gigabecquerel 

  (19.79-curie) iridium-192 source that had moved from the safe position 

  inside its sheath, Spain's Nuclear Safety Council said. The incident 

  happened during X-ray inspection of pipe welds at a fossil-fired power plant 

  near Cordoba, with a gammagraphy device of the firm Technical Operations. 

  Preliminary investigation showed that several operational procedures were 

  violated, including the absence of dosimeters and radiation monitors. The 

  radiographers were estimated to have received doses of 158 milliSievert 

  (15.8 rem) and 79 mSv (7.9 rem), respectively. The NRC occupational exposure 

  limit is 5 rem per year, but the European countries have been lowering that limit.