# Civilian Nuclear Accidents, Incidents, and INES Framework Review Boundary

## Status

Review state: reviewed-with-limitations; source-custody and reuse-boundary wrapper.Release: IARPG-OPS-2 2.0.32-wip.Source: [`Civilian Nuclear Accidents And Effects.md`](../../source-files/civilian-nuclear-history-2026/Civilian%20Nuclear%20Accidents%20And%20Effects.md).

## Purpose

This wrapper preserves the uploaded accident/effects report as source evidence for classifying civilian nuclear and radiological events. It supports the public archive’s distinctions between incidents, accidents, environmental consequences, containment failures, defense-in-depth breakdowns, and long-term remediation.

## Reuse boundary

The source is useful for vocabulary, event-class distinctions, uncertainty notes, and safety-culture context. It does not authorize casualty prediction, operational emergency guidance, weapons-effect modeling, targeting, sabotage, facility vulnerability scoring, or a live safety certification of any reactor or facility.

## Findings

- The public archive uses the report to preserve INES-aware distinctions and to avoid collapsing leaks, fires, contamination events, near misses, containment failures, worker exposures, and core-damage events into a single undifferentiated “disaster” label.
- Event wording must distinguish an official INES rating from a historical, disputed, approximate, or source-derived category.
- Consequence fields remain claim-level source descriptions, not current public-health, legal, or regulatory determinations.

## Related Durable Documents

- [`civilian-nuclear-history-archive-map-and-simulation-integration-report.md`](civilian-nuclear-history-archive-map-and-simulation-integration-report.md#findings)
- [`civilian-nuclear-accidents-incidents-and-ines-framework-review-boundary.md`](civilian-nuclear-accidents-incidents-and-ines-framework-review-boundary.md#findings)
- [`publisher-contact-and-public-profile-page-implementation-report.md`](publisher-contact-and-public-profile-page-implementation-report.md#findings)

## Supersession Status

- Current for IARPG-OPS-2 2.0.32-wip.
- Supersedes no durable nuclear-event report.
- May be superseded by a later release if new source files, live regulatory checks, qualified review, or additional nuclear-event datasets are added.

## Memory References

- Active memory: [`.uai/nuclear-events.uai`](../../../.uai/nuclear-events.uai#current-publication-contract)
- Integration report: [`civilian-nuclear-history-archive-map-and-simulation-integration-report.md`](civilian-nuclear-history-archive-map-and-simulation-integration-report.md#findings)