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21:30 Nov 27, 2007 | |
| Title | Nevada Agreement State Report - Stolen Troxler Moisture Density Gauge |
| Event Description | At approximately 1330 [PST] on Tuesday November 27, 2007, a technician and asst. RSO for the City of Henderson NV, drove away from a jobsite where he had been taking a backscatter density measurement with a Troxler 3440 Nuclear Density Gauge. He left the gauge sitting on the side of the road with the probe unlocked and not in a safe mode. At 1333, he returned to the site to find that the gauge had been removed. The RSO filed a report with Henderson PD [on 11/27/07] and phoned in a report to Nevada Radiological Health Section the following day [11/28/07] at 1010. The gauge [Serial #26655] contains [2] sealed sources: 8 milliCuries Cs-137, and 40 milliCuries Am-241/Be .
The licensee issued a press release (print, radio, and TV) to notify the public of the incident, warn them of the potential danger and ask for the return of the gauge. Nevada Item Number: NV070009 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. |
| Where | |
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| City Of Henderson, Nv Henderson, Nevada (NRC Region 4) | |
| License number: | 03-14-0116-01 |
| Organization: | Nv Div Of Rad Health |
| Reporting | |
| Agreement State | |
| Time - Person (Reporting Time:+135.43 h5.643 days <br />0.806 weeks <br />0.186 months <br />) | |
| Opened: | Eric Matus 12:56 Dec 3, 2007 |
| NRC Officer: | Jeff Rotton |
| Last Updated: | Dec 3, 2007 |
| 43818 - NRC Website | |
City Of Henderson, Nv with Agreement State | |
WEEKMONTHYEARENS 438182007-11-27T21:30:00027 November 2007 21:30:00
[Table view]Agreement State Nevada Agreement State Report - Stolen Troxler Moisture Density Gauge 2007-11-27T21:30:00 | |