ENS Event | |
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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.
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. |
| Where | |
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| 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 |
| 41461 - NRC Website | |
Geo Pacific, Inc with Agreement State | |
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[Table view]Agreement State Agreement State Report - Stolen Moisture Density Gauge 2005-03-04T16:00:00 | |