Accident 22
Accident 22 : General. An event classified as Level 4, 5, 6 or 7, i.e. that involves a release of radioactive material off-site likely to cause public exposure at least of the order of authorized limits or requiring countermeasures to be taken, or causes significant damage to the installation, or results in exposure of workers on-site to such a degree that there is a high probability of early death. There remains a fundamental mismatch between the terminology used in safety standards and that used in INES. In short, events that would be considered accidents according to the safety standards definition may be accidents or incidents (i.e. not accidents) in INES terminology. This is not a serious day-to-day technical problem because the two areas are quite separate. However, it is potentially a serious public relations problem to have a system, explicitly intended to provide information to the public, which, to a sceptical observer, could be seen as systematically underplaying the seriousness of events
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