ENS 48201
ENS Event | |
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04:00 Oct 8, 2005 | |
| Title | Missing Sealed Americium-241 Source |
| Event Description | Subject: Official Notification
This is to inform the NRC Operations Center that West Virginia University [WVU] Hospitals License # 47-23066-02 is not in possession of Item 6.I. Am-241 sealed sources (Amersham Model Dwg. ARC 10048B and 10040B) with an activity of 9.825 millicuries. NRC Region 1 is aware of this situation and has been working with us to resolve it. In August of 2005, a request was made to remove the item from our license. At that time NRC Region 1, via an October 8, 2005 email control # 137502, requested documentation of the shipment/disposal of the source. Based on NRC Region1 recommendations, on November 1, 2005 West Virginia University Hospitals withdrew the request to remove the item from the license. Control # 137502. In a search of the WVU Radiation Safety Department and Vendor records, no evidence of a shipment of the source was found. It was last listed on our physical inventory on May 7, 1991. The former RSO informed us via phone conversation that he believed it was shipped in the early 1990's. All of the search results were documented in writing to NRC Region 1 on May 23, 2012 during our license renewal process. Control # 576453. There is a current license amendment request to remove the source from our license. Control # 577671. West Virginia University Hospitals is officially notifying the NRC Operations Center at this time to document the situation in an effort to bring the situation to a close, and ultimately remove the source from our license. The licensee has been working with Janice Nguyen in Region 1 to resolve this issue. 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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| West Virginia University Hospital Morgantown, West Virginia (NRC Region 1) | |
| License number: | 47-23066-02 |
| Organization: | West Virginia University Hospital |
| Reporting | |
| 10 CFR 20.2201(a)(1)(i) | |
| Time - Person (Reporting Time:+60127.63 h2,505.318 days <br />357.903 weeks <br />82.363 months <br />) | |
| Opened: | Nasser Razmianfar 11:38 Aug 17, 2012 |
| NRC Officer: | Vince Klco |
| Last Updated: | Aug 17, 2012 |
| 48201 - NRC Website
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West Virginia University Hospital with 10 CFR 20.2201(a)(1)(i) | |
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