ENS Event | |
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20:00 Sep 13, 2005 | |
| Title | Agreement State Report Involving a Stolen/Recovered Industrial Radiography Camera |
| Event Description | At 1600 EDT on 9/13/05 an Acuren Inspection vehicle was discovered missing from their satellite office located in Augusta, GA. The vehicle contained a TechOps industrial radiography camera, model and serial number unknown containing an Ir-192 source (source strength not available at time of the report). The vehicle was recovered four (4) hours later at 2000 EDT by law enforcement. The individual believed responsible for the theft, an employee, was arrested at 0300 EDT on 9/14. The corporate RSO (Radiation Safety Officer) is enroute to Augusta to examine the recovered vehicle and radiography camera. The State of Georgia will update this report as additional information becomes available.
The model of the camera is AEA 660B serial # B2655. The source model AEA 424-9 serial number 21291B, containing iridium 192. The strength of the source at the time of the theft was 18.5 curies. Notified Reg 1 RDO (Trapp), NMSS EO (Hodges), IRD (Wilson), TAS (English), TAS(Sandler), and DHS (Cartledge) IAEA Category 3 sources, if not safely managed or securely protected, could cause permanent injury to a person who handled them, or were otherwise in contact with them, for some hours. It could possibly - although it is unlikely - be fatal to be close to this amount of unshielded radioactive material for a period of days to weeks. These sources are typically used in practices such as fixed industrial gauges involving high activity sources (for example, level gauges, dredger gauges, conveyor gauges and spinning pipe gauges) and well logging. |
| Where | |
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| Acuren Inspection Savannah, Georgia (NRC Region 1) | |
| License number: | GA 1115-1 |
| Organization: | Georgia Radioactive Material Pgm |
| Reporting | |
| Agreement State | |
| Time - Person (Reporting Time:+14.5 h0.604 days <br />0.0863 weeks <br />0.0199 months <br />) | |
| Opened: | Elizabeth Drinnon 10:30 Sep 14, 2005 |
| NRC Officer: | Steve Sandin |
| Last Updated: | Sep 15, 2005 |
| 41989 - NRC Website | |
Acuren Inspection with Agreement State | |
WEEKMONTHYEARENS 541282019-06-21T05:00:00021 June 2019 05:00:00
[Table view]Agreement State En Revision Imported Date 8/2/2019 ENS 449562009-03-23T05:00:00023 March 2009 05:00:00 Agreement State Agreement State Report - Source Retraction Challenges ENS 419892005-09-13T20:00:00013 September 2005 20:00:00 Agreement State Agreement State Report Involving a Stolen/Recovered Industrial Radiography Camera 2019-06-21T05:00:00 | |