Event
- Event ID
- 921
- Quality
- Description
A hydrogen leak occurs at a gas cylinder storage tank park in a nuclear power plant.
Employees locate the origin of the leak on a defective pressure regulator. They isolate the hydrogen release and secure the park.
10 m³ of gas, the equivalent of one and a half cylinders, escaped.- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Unignited Hydrogen Release
- Nature of the consequences
- leak no ignition
- Macro-region
- Europe
- Country
- France
- Date
- Component involved
- pressure regulator
- Failure mode
- rupture, no ignition
- Initiating cause
- unknown
- Root CAUSE analysis
INITIATING cause was the failure of a pressure regulator
- Root causes
- Unknown
- Date entry in HIAD
- 01/01/2018
Facility
- Application
- Power plant
- Sub-application
- Nuclear power plant
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
hydrogen cylinders, pressure regulator
- Location type
- Open
- Location
- industrial area
- Operational condition
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of fatalities
- 0
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Post-event summary
10 m3 oh hydrogen released to the environment
- Emergency action
Following the automatic alarm (probably given by a hydrogen detector) the hydrogen release location was isolated.
Lesson Learnt
- Lesson Learnt
The ARIA report does not mention the corrective actions undertaken. The system preventing/mitigation system seemed have worked as designed.
To prevent in an absolute way this type of releases, a better (e.g. more frequent) maintenance and replacement scheme is probably needed.
In-depth data
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Released amount (kg)
- 1
- Probable IGNITION SOURCE
References
- Sources categories
- ARIA
- Reference & weblink
Event description in the French database ARIA
https://www.aria.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/accident/51682/
(accessed September 2020)Local News of newspaper Ouest-France of 07/06/2018
https://www.ouest-france.fr/normandie/nucleaire-une-fuite-d-hydrogene-d…
(accessed September 2020)