The following was received via email from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts:
Licensee reported not receiving 400 Ci Mo-99/Tc-99m shipment from supplier on schedule (arrival originally expected for 12/18/10). Licensee is in communication with supplier and carrier(s) in ongoing effort to locate missing package.
Last known location, per IRE (shipper), was Frankfurt, Germany. At 12/20/10, 8:30 AM ET, licensee received verbal confirmation confirming the shipment is still on the ground in Germany. Licensee has requested more definitive confirmation from its source(s).
The Agency [Commonwealth] considers this event still OPEN.
The licensee stated that photographic evidence has been received confirming the shipment is still on the ground in Germany. The shipment will be returned to the supplier.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts considers the event to be closed.
Notified R1DO (Perry), FSME (Burgess), and ILTAB (Whitney)
- * * UPDATE AT 1137 EST ON 12/23/2010 FROM ANTHONY CARPENITO TO DONALD NORWOOD * * *
The Massachusetts Event Docket Number for this event is 12-9422.
Notified R1DO (Perry), FSME (Villamar), FSME (Lewis) and ILTAB (Johnson) all via E-mail.
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. For additional information go to http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1227_web.pdf
This source is not amongst those sources or devices identified by the
IAEA Code of Conduct for the Safety & Security of Radioactive Sources to be of concern from a radiological standpoint. Therefore is it being categorized as a less than Category 3 source.