ENS Event | |
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05:00 Mar 7, 2008 | |
| Title | Nuclear Powered Pacemaker Potentially Unaccounted for |
| Event Description | After recently determining that an individual with a nuclear powered pacemaker was due for a six month check-up, the licensee attempted to reach the individual on March 5, 2008. Later the licensee determined that the individual was deceased. The licensee contacted the funeral director in an attempt to recover the pacemaker. The licensee also contacted Medtronic Corp. in an attempt to determine if the funeral director had returned the pacemaker to Medtronic but the licensee has still been unable to account for the pacemaker.
On March 7, 2008, after attempts to locate the device, an official from Kennedy Health System determined that a Coreatomic Inc. nuclear powered pacemaker is missing and perhaps lost. The pacemaker is a Coreatomic model C-101-P nuclear powered cardiac pacemaker serial number 1168. Typically these pacemakers contain 2 to 4 curies of Pu-238 which is about 250 milligrams of material or less. THIS MATERIAL EVENT CONTAINS A "CATEGORY 3" LEVEL OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL Category 3 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 some hours. It could possibly - although it is unlikely - be fatal to be close to this amount of unshielded radioactive material for a period of days to weeks. These sources are typically used in practices such as fixed industrial gauges involving high activity sources (for example, level gauges, dredger gauges, conveyor gauges and spinning pipe gauges) and well logging. |
| Where | |
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| Kennedy Health System Stratford, New Jersey (NRC Region 1) | |
| License number: | SNM-1690 |
| Organization: | Kennedy Health System |
| Reporting | |
| 10 CFR 20.2201(a)(1)(i) | |
| Time - Person (Reporting Time:+10.25 h0.427 days <br />0.061 weeks <br />0.014 months <br />) | |
| Opened: | Lester Trip 15:15 Mar 7, 2008 |
| NRC Officer: | Pete Snyder |
| Last Updated: | Mar 7, 2008 |
| 44044 - NRC Website | |
Kennedy Health System with 10 CFR 20.2201(a)(1)(i) | |
WEEKMONTHYEARENS 440442008-03-07T05:00:0007 March 2008 05:00:00
[Table view]10 CFR 20.2201(a)(1)(i) Nuclear Powered Pacemaker Potentially Unaccounted for 2008-03-07T05:00:00 | |