04 July, 2009

Daily Question #113

What do the numbers indicate?


Cracked by Bad Ass Thambi and aamaadmi!! Brilliant!

Answer : International Nuclear Event Scale (INES)

There are 7 levels on the INES scale; 3
incident-levels and 4 accident-levels. Each increasing level represents an accident ten times more severe than the previous level.
7 – Major Accident (Chernobyl, 1986)
6 – Serious Accident (Kyshtym disaster at Mayak, 1957)
5 – Accident With Wider Consequences (Three Mile Island accident, 1979)
4 – Accident With Local Consequences (St.Laurent plant, France, 1980)
3 – Serious Incident (Paks plant, Hungary, 2003)
2 – Incident (Forsmark plant, Sweden)
1 – Anomaly (SOCATRI, France, 2008)

3 comments:

Bad Ass Thambi said...

International Nuclear Event (INES)

Anonymous said...

International Nuclear Event Scale with Chernobyl at the top

navinpai said...

is it the order of human deaths in the most industrial accidents??