The following information was received from the state of Nevada via email:
Authorized user brought a portable nuclear gauge (PNG) up to Reno, Nevada (their license is based out of Las Vegas) to use on job today, August 2, 2021, and stayed the night of August 1, 2021, at the Atlantis, parked in the South East Corner lot. When he went out at 0800 PDT he noticed that the gauge was missing and the chains had been cut. He reported the missing gauge to the [Radiation Safety Officer] RSO and looked around the parking lot, drove the perimeter of the lot and a few blocks around the hotel and did not find the gauge. They notified Reno PD of the stolen gauge and [was notified they] would respond by 0915 PDT (no report number available yet). Atlantis is checking their parking lot security cameras to see if they caught anything on the camera to get a line on the device and fix the time line.
Nevada NMED report number: NV210010
- * * UPDATE FROM COREY CREVELING TO HOWIE CROUCH AT 1923 EDT ON 8/2/21 * * *
The following update was received via email:
The PNG is from Terracon Consultants, Inc. Sacramento, California office covered by California RML CA 8064-34, and it entered the State of Nevada without reciprocity authorization or shipping papers of any kind. Updated the reciprocity pull down and the license number. Added the police report number [21-13940]. Atlantis Hotel-Casino will provide anything found in their search of security camera footage to Reno Police Department.
Notified R4DO (Gepford) and NMSS and ILTAB 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