ENS 40563

v t e ENS Event
21:30 Mar 2, 2004
Title	Nevada - Agreement State Notification of Stolen Moisture Density Gauge
Event Description	Between 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 pm on March 2, 2004, at Vista & McCarran in Reno, Nevada, a Humboldt Scientific Model 5001 moisture density gauge containing 11 millicuries of Cs-137 and 44 millicuries of Am-241:Be, s/n 1854, was stolen from the transport vehicle. The employee indicated the chain securing the gauge to the pickup bed was cut. The Reno, Nevada Police Department was notified. * * UPDATE FROM STATE OF NEVADA TO ABRAMOVITZ ON 07/13/05 @ 14:41 EDT * * * The State provided the following information via facsimile: The gauge was found in a remote canyon east of Reno Nevada on July 12, 2005. The Storey County, Nevada sheriff's office contacted the Nevada Radiological Health Section who took possession of the gauge on July 12, 2005, and placed it in locked storage pending fingerprinting by law enforcement and leak testing. The shipping case for the gauge was not found but radiation measurements indicated the source was intact and the gauge appeared to be undamaged. Gauge serial number is actually 1859, the 1854 serial number listed above was a typographical error. Nevada event report number NV040001 Notified the R4DO (Spitzberg), NMSS EO (Miller) and TASDO (Whitney via e-mail).

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Where
Nortech Geotechnical/Civil Consultants, Ltd Reno, Nevada (NRC Region 4)
License number:	00-11-0309-01
Organization:	Nv Div Of Rad Health
Reporting

Agreement State
Time - Person (Reporting Time:+-3.2 h-0.133 days <br />-0.019 weeks <br />-0.00438 months <br />)
Opened:	Stan Marshall 18:18 Mar 2, 2004
NRC Officer:	Arlon Costa
Last Updated:	Jul 13, 2005
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