ENS 47867
ENS Event | |
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04:00 Mar 14, 2012 | |
| Title | Massachusetts Agreement State Report - Missing Thallium-201 Shipment |
| Event Description | The following information was obtained from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts via email:
On 4/5/12, [the] licensee reported as missing a 1.78 GBq (48.1 mCi) Thallium-201 package that was shipped from its site on 3/12/12, was scanned in at the carrier's Nashville, TN, transportation hub on 3/13/12 and reported to the licensee as missing by the carrier on 3/13/12. Licensee in communication with the carrier in ongoing effort to locate missing package. After a reasonable search time had passed, licensee reported missing package to this Agency [MA Radiation Control Program]. Last known location was in Nashville, TN. The subject radioactive material is 7 ml of liquid solution held within a vial inside a lead pig inside a sealed plastic container inside a styrofoam insert within a corrugated cardboard box. Subject radioactive material has a 73 hour8.449074e-4 days <br />0.0203 hours <br />1.207011e-4 weeks <br />2.77765e-5 months <br /> (~3 days) half-life and has decayed well past 10 half-lives since its original shipping date. Licensee remains in communication with carrier in ongoing effort to locate missing RAM and has requested return of package to licensee if found. The Agency considers this event to be CLOSED. 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. 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 |
| Where | |
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| Lantheus Medical Imaging North Billerica, Massachusetts (NRC Region 1) | |
| License number: | 60-0088 |
| Organization: | Ma Radiation Control Program |
| Reporting | |
| Agreement State | |
| Time - Person (Reporting Time:+1042.03 h43.418 days <br />6.203 weeks <br />1.427 months <br />) | |
| Opened: | Tony Carpenito 14:02 Apr 26, 2012 |
| NRC Officer: | Howie Crouch |
| Last Updated: | Apr 26, 2012 |
| 47867 - NRC Website | |
Lantheus Medical Imaging with Agreement State | |
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