The State provided the following information via facsimile:
On 7/13/06, licensee reported [ to State of MA] that a Raid-M-100 Hand-Held Chemical Agent Monitor (S/N 22653301851) containing up to 100 Mbq (2.7 mCi) of Nickel-63, shipped by licensee employee on 6/5/06 from Anchorage, AK, via United Parcel Service was reported as being not yet received at the licensee's Billerica, MA, site on 6/14/05. A second package, containing work related non-radioactive items, that had been shipped at the same time was received on 6/8/06. The device was in the custody of UPS at the time of the loss. UPS tracking system indicates the package was scanned in AK. Per the licensee, UPS reported on 6/19/06 and on 6/29/06 that its internal investigation had not yet found the missing item. Licensee filed incident report with Anchorage Police Department. The UPS missing package investigation is ongoing.
The site of the event and last known location was UPS, 200 West 34th Avenue, Anchorage, AK.
MA Report 7/31/06, Docket # 07-6484
- * * UPDATE ON 8/3/06 AT 1000 EST BY J KOZAL * * *
Informed the Canadian government of above event via e-mail.
THIS MATERIAL EVENT CONTAINS A "LESS THAN CAT 3" LEVEL OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL
Sources that are "Less than IAEA Category 3 sources," are either sources that are very unlikely to cause permanent injury to individuals or contain a very small amount of radioactive material that would not cause any permanent injury. Some of these sources, such as moisture density gauges or thickness gauges that are Category 4, the amount of unshielded radioactive material, if not safely managed or securely protected, could possibly - although it is unlikely - temporarily injure someone who handled it or were otherwise in contact with it, or who were close to it for a period of many weeks.
This source is not amongst those sources or devices identified by the
IAEA Code of Conduct for the Safety & Security of Radioactive Sources to be of concern from a radiological standpoint. Therefore is it being categorized as a less than Category 3 source