Event
- Event ID
- 267
- Quality
- Description
- An explosion occurs during testing of the hydrogen feeding of an engine in the Spatial Agency Centre.
- Event Initiating system
- Classification of the physical effects
- Hydrogen Release and Ignition
- Nature of the consequences
- Macro-region
- Asia
- Country
- Japan
- Date
- Main component involved?
- Pipe
- How was it involved?
- Unknown
- Initiating cause
- Unknown
- Root causes
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Facility
- Application
- Non-Road Vehicles
- Sub-application
- Aerospace
- Hydrogen supply chain stage
- All components affected
- Space shuttle engine
- Location type
- Semiconfined
- Location description
- Industrial Area
- Operational condition
- Unknown (No additional details provided)
Emergency & Consequences
- Number of injured persons
- 0
- Number of fatalities
- 0
Event Nature
- Release type
- gas
- Involved substances (% vol)
- H2 100%
- Presumed ignition source
- Not reported
- Deflagration
- N
- High pressure explosion
- N
- High voltage explosion
- N
References
- Reference & weblink
Event 3357 in the French database ARIA<br />
https://www.aria.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/accident/3357/<br />
(accessed October 2020)<br />
JRC assessment
- Sources categories
- ARIA
