ENS 40376
ENS Event | |
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05:00 Dec 4, 2003 | |
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| Event Description | The following information was received via facsimile and telephone conversation:
Loss of Control - Lost, Abandoned, or Stolen Materials Incident Location: Suspected Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) job site at US1 just north of North Bridge Road, St. Lucie, Florida in unrestricted area. Incident Description: POC [Point of Contact] reported he looked for gauge in the bed of transport truck this AM. Gauge was not in carrying case. He believes he left the gauge at the job site on 4 Dec. He has the locks for the transportation case and the box attached to the truck bed and they were intact. The gauge handle was locked and he has the keys. He had a crew in Ft. Pierce make a futile search for the gauge at the work site. He called the Ft. Pierce PD [Police Department] and they had no reports of a gauge being found. This office requested a press release and reward for the return of the gauge be issued and the gauge be reported lost or stolen to the Ft. Pierce PD. Further investigation of this incident will be by the Radioactive Materials section. The subject gauge is a Troxler model 3440, serial number 20515, 40 milliCuries Am-241:Be, 8 milliCuries Cs-137 moisture density gauge licensed to the FDOT. Florida incident number FL03-217.
[On August 13, 2008,] a scrap truck tripped portal alarm [at a metal recycling facility - Trade Mark Metals]. [The scrap metal container] was rejected and returned to owner. [Redacted information] [The scrap metal] owner found what appear[ed] to be a bus door opener handle [as the] source [of the radioactivity]. An investigator [from the State] was dispatched to survey the source. The remaining load was accepted by Trade Mark Metals. [The] 'Handle' [was determined to be] a part of a soil moisture density gauge [containing the CS-137 source and] originally belonging to Florida DOT, and reported stolen 05-Dec-03. Incident number FL03-217, original NRC Event 40376 [see above]. Other parts of the load were surveyed for the Am-241/Be source, [however] no radiation [was] found emitting neutrons [and no other parts of the gauge found]. [The original gauge] owner [DOT] will take control of item and properly dispose of. No further action will be taken on this incident [by the State]. The State indicated that the CS-137 source was undamaged and the source serial number used to trace the original owner. Followup State Report is FL08-121 Notified R1DO (Powell); FSME (Burgess); and ILTAB (Whitney via e-mail). |
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| State Of Florida Davie, Florida (NRC Region 1) | |
| License number: | 0109-1 |
| Organization: | Florida Bureau Of Radiation Control |
| Reporting | |
| Agreement State | |
| Time - Person (Reporting Time:+30.9 h1.288 days <br />0.184 weeks <br />0.0423 months <br />) | |
| Opened: | Jerry Eakins 11:54 Dec 5, 2003 |
| NRC Officer: | Gerry Waig |
| Last Updated: | Aug 26, 2008 |
| 40376 - NRC Website | |
State Of Florida with Agreement State | |
WEEKMONTHYEARENS 403762003-12-04T05:00:0004 December 2003 05:00:00
[Table view]Agreement State Agreement State Report- Florida - Lost or Stolen Troxler Moisture Density Gauge 2003-12-04T05:00:00 | |