ENS 43461

v t e ENS Event
04:00 Jun 29, 2007
Title	Agreement State - Massachusetts - Deuterium Contaminated with Tritium Received by Non-Licensed Business
Event Description	The agreement state provided the following information via facsimile: The Agency was informed by a non-licensed business, Cambridge Isotopes Laboratory of 50 Frontage Road, North Andover, MA, that a shipment of deuterium water received from a foreign vendor, Ontario Power Generation, was contaminated with Hydrogen-3. Upon a customer complaint, the business hired a consultant to analyze an aliquot from the original batch shipment and the aliquot has been determined to contain 20 millicuries per liter of tritium. The business has also notified their employees, the vendor from which the shipment originated, and three of the company's customers in the United States that received finished, and contaminated , product from the company. Bioassay procedures are being implemented and surveys are commencing to determine if personnel became contaminated or if the facility became contaminated. This report has been assigned MA DPH / RCP docket # 06-7156.

ENS 43461 +/-
Where
Not Applicable North Andover, Massachusetts (NRC Region 1)
Organization:	Ma Radiation Control Program
Reporting

Agreement State
Time - Person (Reporting Time:+10.38 h0.433 days <br />0.0618 weeks <br />0.0142 months <br />)
Opened:	John Sumares 14:23 Jun 29, 2007
NRC Officer:	Bill Huffman
Last Updated:	Jun 29, 2007
43461 - NRC Website
v • d • e

v t e Emergency Notification System
Not Applicable with Agreement State
WEEKMONTHYEAR2018-05-21T04:00:00 [Table view]
[ENS list for Not Applicable]

Navigation menu