ENS 45082

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v t e ENS Event
12:30 May 19, 2009
Title	Agreement State Report - Unaccounted for Sealed Sources
Event Description	The Commonwealth of Massachusetts provided the following information via facsimile: The Commonwealth dispatched an inspector to a general licensee facility to conduct an inspection of their thickness gauges. Upon arrival, the inspector discovered that the licensee had undergone bankruptcy in 2007 and the facility was being demolished by a national liquidation company. The building that the gauges were supposed to be stored in had already been demolished. The 12 thickness gauges were NDC Systems Model #103 and each contained 150 mCi of Am-241. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has notified local scrap yards and material recyclers and will be continuing their investigation. 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. Although IAEA categorization of this event is typically based on device type, the staff has been made aware of the actual activity of the source, and after calculation determines that it is a Category 3 event. Note: the value assigned by device type "Less than Cat 3" is different than the calculated value "Category 3

ENS 45082 +/-
Where
Quaker Fabric Corporation Fall River, Massachusetts (NRC Region 1)
License number:	G0122
Organization:	Ma Radiation Control Program
Reporting

Agreement State
Time - Person (Reporting Time:+26.73 h1.114 days <br />0.159 weeks <br />0.0366 months <br />)
Opened:	J. Thomas Coulombe 15:14 May 20, 2009
NRC Officer:	Vince Klco
Last Updated:	May 20, 2009
45082 - NRC Website
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v t e Emergency Notification System
Quaker Fabric Corporation with Agreement State
WEEKMONTHYEAR2009-05-19T12:30:00 [Table view]
[ENS list for Quaker Fabric Corporation]

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