Claim criteria of significant events implying the safety for the Basis Nuclear Installations others than the PWR type reactors

There are ten criteria for the claim of significant events implying the safety for the basis nuclear installations others than the PWR type reactors. First criterion: Event having or not a nuclear origin, having lead death of man or serious wounds requiring an evacuation of one or several injured persons towards a hospital, when the origin of wounds is in relationship with a failure of an equipment in relation with the process. Second criterion: Manual or automatic, inconvenient starting or not, of one of the systems of protection and / or saving, with the exception of the deliberate starting resulting from actions programmed to maintain an important function of safety. Third criterion: Event having lead to the crossing of a limit of safety such as defined in the guide of safety references or the decree of authorization of the installation creation. Fourth criterion: Internal or external aggression of the installations, arisen a natural external phenomenon or connected to the human activity, or emergence of an internal flooding, a fire or of another phenomenon susceptible to have significant consequences or to affect the availability of equipment participating in a function important for the safety. Fifth criterion: Act or attempt of act of malevolence susceptible to affect the safety of the installation. Sixth criterion: Event bearing or being able to strike a blow at the integrity of the containment of hazardous materials. Seventh criterion: Event having provoked or able to provoke multiple failures: Unavailability of equipment due to the same failure or affecting all the ways of a redundant system or equipment of same type participating in one or several safety functions of the installation. Eighth criterion: Defect, degradation or failure having affected a function of safety, which had or would have been able to have significant consequences, which it was revealed during the running or during the stop of the installation. Ninth criterion: Event not answering the previous criteria and affecting a function of safety but which may be a precursor of accident or which presents a repetitive character the cause of which was not identified. Tenth criterion: Any other event susceptible to affect the safety of installation judged significant by the operator or the Authority of nuclear safety. (N.C.)