ENS Event | |
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12:00 Aug 10, 2009 | |
| Title | |
| Event Description | An employee drove home [Crawfordville, IN] with the density gauge in the back of his car on Friday August 7, 2009. Sunday morning he locked the density gauge into the trunk of another car parked in the front of his home. He then left to attend a family event. The employee noticed the gauge was missing on Monday morning.
The licensee notified Montgomery County Police and Indiana Department of Health. Seaman Nuclear Moisture Density Gauge Model: C75A SC757582 Source: Radium-226 Activity: .00616 TBq 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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| Atc Associates Indianapolis, Indiana (NRC Region 3) | |
| License number: | 13-17732-01 |
| Organization: | Atc Associates |
| Reporting | |
| 10 CFR 20.2201(a)(1)(i) | |
| Time - Person (Reporting Time:+25.92 h1.08 days <br />0.154 weeks <br />0.0355 months <br />) | |
| Opened: | Bob Ramsey 13:55 Aug 11, 2009 |
| NRC Officer: | Charles Teal |
| Last Updated: | Aug 11, 2009 |
| 45256 - NRC Website | |
Atc Associates with 10 CFR 20.2201(a)(1)(i) | |
WEEKMONTHYEARENS 452562009-08-10T12:00:00010 August 2009 12:00:00
[Table view]10 CFR 20.2201(a)(1)(i) Stolen Moisture Density Gauge 2009-08-10T12:00:00 | |