ENS 41044

v t e ENS Event
16:30 Sep 16, 2004
Title	Surface Contamination on Radioactive Material Package Exceeding Limits
Event Description	The Department of Veterans Affairs, National Health Physics Program reported a package that exceeded the limits for removable radioactive surface contamination. The package was received on September 16, 2004, by a permittee authorized under the master materials license issued to the Department of Veterans Affairs, NRC License 03-23853-01VA. The permittee is the Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This event is reported under 10 CFR 20.1906(d)(1) in that the package, an ammo box being used to deliver radioactive materials, had approximately 11,000 disintegrations per minute per square centimeter removable radioactive contamination on the outside. The contamination was limited to one small spot on the ammo box exterior. The interior of the box was not contaminated. The contamination was identified as 99M-Tc. The Cardinal Health Nuclear Pharmacy Services delivered the package. The permittee Radiation Safety Officer notified the vendor about the package. There was no personnel contamination involved.

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Where
Department Of Veterans Affairs Milwaukee, Wisconsin (NRC Region 3)
License number:	03-23853-01VA
Organization:	Department Of Veterans Affairs
Reporting

10 CFR 20.1906(d)(1)
Time - Person (Reporting Time:+-2.55 h-0.106 days <br />-0.0152 weeks <br />-0.00349 months <br />)
Opened:	Gary Williams 13:57 Sep 16, 2004
NRC Officer:	Bill Huffman
Last Updated:	Sep 16, 2004
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Department Of Veterans Affairs with 10 CFR 20.1906(d)(1)
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