ENS 51007
ENS Event | |
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01:45 Apr 24, 2015 | |
| Title | Agreement State Report - Lost Moisture Density Gauge |
| Event Description | The following information was provided by the State of Texas via email:
On April 23, 2015, at 2117 [CDT], the Agency [Texas Department of State Health Services] was contacted by the licensee's radiation safety officer (RSO) and informed that one of their InstroTek model 3500 moisture/density gauges containing an 8 millicurie cesium - 137 source and a 40 millicurie americium/beryllium source was lost by a technician at a work site [Midland, Texas]. The technician had placed the gauge on the back of his pickup truck. He walked around the job site with the work area supervisor for a few minutes, then returned to his truck and drove to the new work site. When he arrived at the new site he notice the gauge was missing. The technician notified the RSO and local law enforcement. He then began looking for the gauge. The RSO stated he was responding to the location to help look for the gauge. The RSO stated the operating rod for the cesium source was locked in the shielded position. Additional information will be provided as it is received in accordance with SA-300. Texas Incident #: I-9307 The following information was provided by the State of Texas via email: On April 24, 2015, at 0929 CDT the Agency [Texas Department of State Health Services] was notified by the licensee's radiation safety officer (RSO) that the gauge had been recovered. The RSO stated they had been contacted by a contractor who had found the gauge yesterday and taken it to their [location] where they stored it over night. The RSO stated the operating handle for the cesium source was still locked. The gauge did not appear to be damaged. The RSO stated a leak test was performed of the gauge sources and the gauge has been placed in storage until the results of the leak test are received. Additional information will be provided as it is received in accordance with SA-300. Notified R4DO (Drake), NMSS Events Notifications, ILTAB, and Mexico via email. 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 |
| Where | |
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| Rrc Power And Energy Llc Round Rock, Texas (NRC Region 4) | |
| License number: | 06105 |
| Organization: | Texas Dept Of State Health Services |
| Reporting | |
| Agreement State | |
| Time - Person (Reporting Time:+-2.53 h-0.105 days <br />-0.0151 weeks <br />-0.00347 months <br />) | |
| Opened: | Art Tucker 23:13 Apr 23, 2015 |
| NRC Officer: | Jeff Rotton |
| Last Updated: | Apr 24, 2015 |
| 51007 - NRC Website | |
Rrc Power And Energy Llc with Agreement State | |
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[Table view]Agreement State Agreement State Report - Lost Moisture Density Gauge ENS 510072015-04-24T01:45:00024 April 2015 01:45:00 Agreement State Agreement State Report - Lost Moisture Density Gauge 2016-07-08T21:30:00 | |