ENS Event | |
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04:00 Sep 9, 2019 | |
| Title | Agreement State Report - Lost Sources |
| Event Description | The following information is a summary of a telephone call from New York City's Health Department:
On September 9, 2019, New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital was unable to locate a shipment that had arrived a few days earlier. The shipment consisted of ten I-125 seeds in a container with lead shielding. The combined activity of the ten seeds is 3.5 mCi. The licensee is continuing to investigate this event. 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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| New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital Brooklyn, New York (NRC Region 1) | |
| License number: | 91-2842-01 |
| Organization: | New York City Bureau Of Rad Health |
| Reporting | |
| Agreement State | |
| Time - Person (Reporting Time:+12.73 h0.53 days <br />0.0758 weeks <br />0.0174 months <br />) | |
| Opened: | Erik Finkelstein 16:44 Sep 9, 2019 |
| NRC Officer: | Andrew Waugh |
| Last Updated: | Sep 9, 2019 |
| 54264 - NRC Website | |
New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital with Agreement State | |
WEEKMONTHYEARENS 542642019-09-09T04:00:0009 September 2019 04:00:00
[Table view]Agreement State Agreement State Report - Lost Sources 2019-09-09T04:00:00 | |