ENS 53907

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v t e ENS Event
05:00 Mar 2, 2019
Title	Agreement State Report - Radiography Device Left Unsecured
Event Description	The following report was received from the North Carolina Division of Health Service Regulation, Radioactive Materials Branch via email: Licensee reports that an Industrial Radiography [IR] exposure device was unaccounted for during the 15 hours1.736111e-4 days <br />0.00417 hours <br />2.480159e-5 weeks <br />5.7075e-6 months <br /> following work site activities on March 1st. The IR device was left unsecured the entire time until discovered the morning of March 2nd by the radiography crew that left it. The device [Spec 150; S/N: 1251] and source [72 Ci Ir-192; Model: G-60; S/N: AA0805] are secured and in possession of the corporate RSO [Radiation Safety Officer] at the time of this report. North Carolina Radioactive Materials Branch has initiated an investigation and will update this report for completion. NC Event Tracking ID: 190008 THIS MATERIAL EVENT CONTAINS A "CATEGORY 2" LEVEL OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL Category 2 sources, if not safely managed or securely protected, could cause permanent injury to a person who handled them, or were otherwise in contact with them, for a short time (minutes to hours). It could possibly be fatal to be close to this amount of unshielded radioactive material for a period of hours to days. These sources are typically used in practices such as industrial gamma radiography, high dose rate brachytherapy and medium dose rate brachytherapy. For additional information go to http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1227_web.pdf

ENS 53907 +/-
Where
Janx Graysburg, North Carolina (NRC Region 1)
License number:	1117-2
Organization:	Nc Div Of Radiation Protection
Reporting

Agreement State
Time - Person (Reporting Time:+16.03 h0.668 days <br />0.0954 weeks <br />0.022 months <br />)
Opened:	Travis Cartoski 21:02 Mar 2, 2019
NRC Officer:	Jeff Herrera
Last Updated:	Mar 2, 2019
53907 - NRC Website
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