ENS 43861
ENS Event | |
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05:00 Dec 11, 2007 | |
| Title | Massachusetts Agreement State Report - Lost Shipment of Iridium-192 Sources |
| Event Description | The RSO for QSA Global called to report a missing shipment. The shipment was dispatched from QSA on 12/5/07 via Roadway. Roadway has a signed receipt (dated 12/11/07) from LAN Cargo in Miami, FL. LAN Cargo cannot locate the shipment in Miami. The initial notification was made to QSA on Tuesday morning, 12/18/07, and there was some initial confusion as Roadway said that it was delivered [LAN Cargo], and LAN Cargo said they did not know where it was. Official notification of the missing shipment was not made to QSA until yesterday, 12/20/07. As of today, the shipment is still missing and QSA notified MA RCP.
The shipment contains 4 sources containing a total of just under 800 curies of Ir-192. The investigation is on-going and more details will follow as they are received. The following additional information was obtained from QSA Global's RSO: Date Shipped: Dispatched from QSA on 12/5/07 via Roadway, PRO #100-971702-4, for LAN Cargo in Miami. Roadway has a signed receipt for the shipment from LAN Cargo, but LAN Cargo cannot locate the shipment in Miami. Customer: Caefe NDT, Rioja 4855, 2000 Rosairo (SF) Argentina RAM: Seven (7) IR-192 sources in four containers on a skid: 4066.3 GBq, 8572.9 GBq, 8025.3 GBq, and 8162.3 GBq. Status: The initial notification was made to QSA Tuesday morning and there was some initial confusion as Roadway said that it was delivered, and LAN said they didn't know where it was. It is a skid that weighs over 400 lbs, so it is not something that can be easily moved. Because of the initial confusion over the actual status, official notification of the missing shipment wasn't made to QSA until yesterday morning. As of today, it is still missing and therefore, QSA is making the formal notification to MRCP per 105 CMR 120.281. A second shipment bound for Lima, Peru was consigned to LAN Cargo on the same day and we are investigating whether the missing shipment went to Lima instead of Argentina. The licensee has also contacted the State of Florida. ILTAB (Sandler) and R2DO (Shaeffer) notified.
The shipment has been located at the Miami Roadway Express Terminal Dock. Notified R1DO (Henderson), FSME (Mohseni, Pangburn), IRD (Cruz), R2DO (Shaeffer), ILTAB (Sandler). Notified DHS (Steve York), DOE(Sal Morrone), FEMA (Erwin Casto), USDA (Amanda Jimenez), HHS (Jamie Whitt). THIS MATERIAL EVENT CONTAINS A "CATEGORY 2" LEVEL OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL Category 2 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 a short time (minutes to hours). It could possibly be fatal to be close to this amount of unshielded radioactive material for a period of hours to days. These sources are typically used in practices such as industrial gamma radiography, high dose rate brachytherapy and medium dose rate brachytherapy. |
| Where | |
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| Qsa Global Burlington, Massachusetts (NRC Region 1) | |
| Organization: | Ma Radiation Control Program |
| Reporting | |
| Agreement State | |
| Time - Person (Reporting Time:+249.82 h10.409 days <br />1.487 weeks <br />0.342 months <br />) | |
| Opened: | John Sumares 14:49 Dec 21, 2007 |
| NRC Officer: | Bill Huffman |
| Last Updated: | Dec 23, 2007 |
| 43861 - NRC Website | |
Qsa Global with Agreement State | |
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