Dassault Falcon Jet Wilmington Corp. has lost a leased piece of equipment that contains radioactive materials. The tool in question is an air blow gun leased from NRD,
LLC. The blow gun model number is P-2021-1000, Serial number A2JT781 and was on lease number 055641 shipped on 12/03/2013. The blow gun [contains] 1.7 mCi (61 MBq) [of Po-210].
The tool was used to remove static from aircraft interior windows and also to remove static from interior wood paneling between decorative finish coats. It was used primarily in the cabinet department of the company for the purposes described above. The tool was believed to last be used in June of 2014.
Since discovering the tool was lost, every effort has been made to locate it by posting lost tool messages throughout the company and searching all tool storage locations and employee tool boxes. To prevent this from happening again, the company has placed tools like this into our inventory tool control program where employees will be required to sign out tools and return them after jobs are complete.
The tool was in use at the company's New Castle, DE facility.
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