On Monday, October 31, 2005 a shipment of
RAM was packaged in Albuquerque, NM by Spectrotech, Svcs. And offered for ground shipment to Kilgore, TX. There were 7 packages, 4 fiberboard boxes and 3 twenty gallon drums, the latter being yellow III, TI=5.0. When the shipment arrived at Kilgore, TX subsite #004 on the RAML03835, Thursday afternoon November 3, 2005, two vials of liquid (
Antimony) Sb-124 with 40mCi/each were missing along with the inner shipping container, an ammo box. A tamper seal on the 20 gallon drum was still intact, but this type did not contain a unique serial number. The inventory at Spectrotech has been verified as correct and video surveillance indicates that the materials were packaged and offered for shipment to Conway shipping for ground service. The corporate
RSO reported the missing material to the answering service at 1830 hrs, Thursday, 11/03/05. Sb-124 is used for sub-surface field studies in the oil and gas industry. All parties are continuing the investigation.
Texas Incident Number: I-8275
Texas Report Number: TX-05-42118
- UPDATE ON 11/09/05 TO KNOKE ***
On 11/09/05 the State of
New Mexico also notified NRC. See EN-42130.