Date

Plant

Location

Event (as described by the operator)

30.06.82

Caorso

Italy

Core instability during plant start up

01.10.83

Caorso

Italy

Core instability during special tests

13.01.84

Caorso

Italy

Instability after pump trip

17.10.84

S. Maria de Garona

Spain

Power oscillations during operation

23.02.87

TVO 1

Finland

Power oscillations during plant start up

09.03.88

La Salle 2

USA

Core instability with scram caused by neutron flux oscillation

29.10.88

Vermont Yankee

USA

Power oscillations

26.10.89

Ringhals 1

Sweden

Instability during power ascent after refueling

08.01.89

Oskarshamn

Sweden

Power oscillations

29.01.91

Cofrentes

Spain

Power oscillations due to inadvertent entry in the reactor power-core flow map instability zone “B”

03.07.91

Isar 1

Germany

Scram due to power oscillations

15.08.92

WNP

USA

Power oscillations

09.07.93

Perry

USA

Entry into a region of core instability

01.1995

Laguna Verde

Spain

Power oscillations during start-up

17.07.96

Forsmark 1

Sweden

Local oscillations due to a bad seated fuel assembly

08.02.98

Oskarshamn 3

Sweden

Power oscillations due to a bad combination of core design and control-rod pattern during start up

25.02.99

Oskarshamn 2

Sweden

Power oscillations after a turbine trip with pump runback

--11.01

Philippsburg-1

Germany

In-phase power oscillation