ENS 44625
ENS Event | |
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06:00 Oct 21, 2008 | |
| Title | Agreement State Report - Lost Tritium Exit Signs |
| Event Description | On October 21, 2008, Mississippi State Department of Health was notified by Rich Dailey, RSO for Wal-Mart that two (2) exit signs, each containing 11.5 Ci of H-3, were missing from the Wal-Mart store in Hernando, Mississippi. On October 27, 2008, DRH informed the RSO for Wal-Mart that the exit signs were exempt from state regulations but to send in a written notification report. The following devices were reported missing from Wal-Mart:
1. Exit sign form store (#05419) located at 2600 McIngvale Road, Hernando, Mississippi 38632, Serial Number - Unknown, Manufacturer - Isolite, activity - 11.5 Ci of tritium at time of manufacture. 2. Exit sign form store (#05419) located at 2600 McIngvale Road, Hernando, Mississippi 38632, Serial Number - Unknown, Manufacturer - Isolite, activity - 11.5 Ci of tritium at time of manufacture.
The State of Mississippi was notified by a Wal-Mart corporate representative located in Bentonville, AR, indicating that Wal-Mart was unable to account for 307 tritium exit signs (which are general licensed materials) that were used at one time in Wal-Mart stores throughout the State of Mississippi. The Wal-Mart representative informed the State Office that Wal-Mart had exhausted searching for the tritium exit signs and considered them to be lost and/or missing. The State of Mississippi was provided a listing from corporate Wal-Mart of the store locations along with information on the tritium exit sign manufacturers, model and serial numbers and curie content where known. Notified R4DO(Farnholtz), FSME(Burgess), and ILTAB 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. |
| Where | |
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| Walmart Hernando, Mississippi (NRC Region 4) | |
| Organization: | Mississippi State Department Of Hea |
| Reporting | |
| Agreement State | |
| Time - Person (Reporting Time:+318.17 h13.257 days <br />1.894 weeks <br />0.436 months <br />) | |
| Opened: | Jayson Moak 13:10 Nov 3, 2008 |
| NRC Officer: | Vince Klco |
| Last Updated: | Jan 21, 2009 |
| 44625 - NRC Website | |
Walmart with Agreement State | |
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