The following information was provided by the State of
Tennessee via email:
A General Licensed (GL) facility called Choo Choo Customs Group possessed a Po-210 static eliminator GL device with approximately 10 mCi of activity. [Choo Choo Customs Group] has been inactive or dissolved. The [State of Tennessee - Division of Radiological Health] has been trying for a number of years to get them to reply. The [Division] has had our field office staff go by the last known and suspected addresses this year (2015) to run them down but to no avail. The collections company for the [Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation - Division of Fiscal Services] has also had no success. This would be a lost source that the [Division] would report but were hoping to get some resolution or locate the individuals who had owned the company. The [Division] has now exhausted all our leads and are proceeding with reporting it as a lost source/device.
Manufacturer: AEA Technology/USA Inc. Static Eliminator
Model: PDV1420 (PDM.1002Hn series)
Serial#: 8139KB
Isotope: Po-210 (10 mCi)
Shipped date: 6/25/1999
State Event Report ID NO.: TN-15-132
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