ENS 54058

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v t e ENS Event
05:00 Sep 26, 2013
Title	Agreement State Report - Improper Disposal of Radioactive Material
Event Description	The following information was excerpted from an email received from the State of Louisiana: On 8/15/2018, the radiation safety officer (RSO) at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility (NASA-M) discovered a dew point device containing a radioactive source was sent to a recycling center for disposal. The recycler was UNICOR Recycling Factory (UCF) in Marinna, FL. UCF was not licensed to receive radioactive material. The dew point device with the source was sent to UCF for disposal on 9/26/2013. The RSO reported the disposal to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, as a lost source and unreported release of radioactive material, on 5/9/2019. UCF was contacted my NASA-M for records and documentation, but UCF stated they did not have any records/documentation for that device disposal. The device was an Alnor Instrument Co.; Type 7000U Dew Point Determination device with a 35 microCi Am-241 source (serial number 25829). Louisiana Event Report ID No.: LA-190007 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

ENS 54058 +/-
Where
Nasa - Michoud Assembly Facility New Orleans, Louisiana (NRC Region 4)
License number:	LA-2319-L01A, AI # 9145
Organization:	Louisiana Radiation Protection Div
Reporting

Agreement State
Time - Person (Reporting Time:+49257.73 h2,052.405 days <br />293.201 weeks <br />67.473 months <br />)
Opened:	Joseph Noble 14:44 May 10, 2019
NRC Officer:	Andrew Waugh
Last Updated:	May 10, 2019
54058 - NRC Website
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v t e Emergency Notification System
Nasa - Michoud Assembly Facility with Agreement State
WEEKMONTHYEAR2013-09-26T05:00:00 [Table view]
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