Event
- Event ID
- 577
- Quality
- Description
The recombiner was being cut into off-gas system, when an explosion occurred in off-gas system.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Date
- Component involved
- off-gas system (recombiner)
- Failure mode
- internal explosion
- Initiating cause
- wrong operation
- Root CAUSE analysis
The fact that the explosion occurred when cutting the recombiner may be related to a too high content of hydrogen. Anyhow, something went wrong when working on the recombiner, suggesting shortcoming in the procedure.
- Root causes
- Date entry in HIAD
- 28/01/2026
Facility
- Application
- Power plant
- Sub-application
- Nuclear power plant - BWR
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- Location type
- Confined
- Location
- unknown
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Currency
- US$
- Property loss (onsite)
- 0
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas mixture
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2,
O2 - Probable IGNITION SOURCE
- Explosion type
References
- Sources categories
- Zalosh
- Reference & weblink
Table II - Industrial Incidetns of Appendix A of Zalosh and Short
COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF HYDROGEN FIRE AND EXPLOSION INCIDENTS
Quarterly Report No. 2 for Period December 1, 1977 - February 28, 1978
https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6566131
(accessed September 2020)
