ENS 40399

v t e ENS Event
06:00 Dec 17, 2003
Title	Agreement State - Potential Leak on P-32 Source Wire
Event Description	The following is taken from an email received from the State of Texas, Department of Health: This is a Texas agreement state incident being forwarded based on a 5 day report requirement for a leaking source. (Incident 8083) The Licensee reporting the incident is Guidant located in Pearland, TX, L05178. More information is anticipated. This is a preliminary report. Today a returned P-32 [Phosphorus-32] source wire was received at our Pearland facility. This facility is authorized for radioactive material use under license number L05178. The source wires we manufacture are registered with the TX-BRC as TX-1070-S-101-S. These source wires are sent to our user sites [hospitals] and returned to Pearland for decay and disposal. The active portion of the source wire was wiped during the receipt survey. Approximately, 8.0 nCi [nanocuries] of activity was removed at that time. The source wire was stored for investigation at that time. A later wipe showed removable activity of approximately 0.5 nCi [nanocuries]. We will continue to investigate the source wire to determine if the wire is leaking or if the contamination was from another source.

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Where
Guidant Corporation Perland, Texas (NRC Region 4)
License number:	L05178
Organization:	Texas Department Of Health
Reporting

Agreement State
Time - Person (Reporting Time:+13.05 h0.544 days <br />0.0777 weeks <br />0.0179 months <br />)
Opened:	Helen Watkins (Email) 19:03 Dec 17, 2003
NRC Officer:	Gerry Waig
Last Updated:	Dec 17, 2003
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