ENS 41461

v t e ENS Event
16:00 Mar 4, 2005
Title	Agreement State Report - Stolen Moisture Density Gauge
Event Description	A Troxler Model 3440 Moisture Density Gauge (Serial Number 35472) was stolen from a licensee's pickup truck sometime during the night or early morning of 03/03/05 - 03/04/05 while parked at a Holiday Inn Express Motel in Bend, OR. The gauge contains an 8 milliCurie Cs-137 source (Serial Number 772585) and a 40 milliCurie Am-241/Be source (Serial Number 78-408). The licensee notified the Oregon State Police and the Bend, OR Police Department. The State of Oregon has dispatched an investigator to the area and plans on issuing a press release. Oregon Incident No. RPS 05-0013. * * UPDATE FROM STATE OF OREGON (WRIGHT) TO NRC (HUFFMAN) AT 1017 EST ON 3/17/05 * * * The Department of Radiation Protection for the State of Oregon reported that the gauge was recovered in Bend, Oregon during the evening of 3/16/05. The local Fire Department responded to a report of a yellow box along the side of a road and found the gauge and container intact and apparently undamaged. The HAZMAT team performed a survey which showed no indication of contamination. The owner has been notified and is en route to pick up the gauge. R4DO (Farnholtz), NMSS (Essig), and TAS (Foster via e-mail) notified.

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Where
Geo Pacific, Inc Bend, Oregon (NRC Region 4)
License number:	ORE-90950
Organization:	Or Dept Of Health Rad Protection
Reporting

Agreement State
Time - Person (Reporting Time:+-3.18 h-0.133 days <br />-0.0189 weeks <br />-0.00436 months <br />)
Opened:	Ed Wright 12:49 Mar 4, 2005
NRC Officer:	Mike Ripley
Last Updated:	Mar 17, 2005
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