ENS 56030
ENS Event | |
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04:00 Jul 25, 2022 | |
| Title | Lost/Missing Category 2 Radioactive Material Shipment |
| Event Description | The following information was received from the Massachusetts Radiation Control Program via email:
QSA Global reported via telephone at 1400 EDT on 8/4/2022 [to the agency (MA Department of Public Health Radiation Control Program)] that a 6/30/2022 shipment from Australia, containing thirty-two Ir-192 sealed sources totaling 134 Ci and two Se-75 sealed sources totaling 8.38 Ci, was missing in transit. The shipment departed from Sydney, Australia (SYD) via Qatar Airways on or about 7/1/2022 and arrived at Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD). QSA Global stated last known (scanned) location was at ORD on 7/20/2022. QSA Global was informed that shipment was missing at 1345 EDT on 8/4/2022. This shipment included three 34x34x40 cm, RQ UN2916, Yellow-II, Type B packages containing Ir-192 with a Transport Index of 0.3 DIM, two 49x49x53 cm, RQ UN2916, Yellow-II, Type B packages containing Ir-192 with a Transport Index of 0.2 DIM, and one 25x21x43 cm, RQ UN2916, Yellow-II, Type B package containing Se-75 with a Transport Index of 0.1 DIM, at time of shipment. QSA updated last known location by later stating that the shipment was picked up in Chicago by Forward Air Corporation trucking company on 7/21/22 and arrived in Boston on 7/25/22 (current last known location is Forward Air facility in Boston). This situation is an immediately reportable event per regulation. Search for the missing shipment by Forward Air Corporation is ongoing. The agency currently considers this docket to still be open. MA Event Docket Number: TBD Notified external: DHS SWO, FEMA Ops Center, USDA Ops Center, HHS Ops Center, DOE Ops Center, DHS CISA Central, and EPA EOC and via E-mail: FDA EOC, Nuclear SSA, FEMA National Watch Center, and CWMD Watch Desk.
The following was received from the Massachusetts Radiation Control Program via email: Shipment discovered on loading dock at carrier (Forward Air Corporation) facility in Boston 8/4/22. Receiver licensee (QSA Global Inc.) reported receipt of shipment on 8/5/22 and confirmed all six individual package seals were observed to be intact. Notified internal: R1RDO (Henrion), IR MOC (Crouch), and ILTAB (MacDonald), and via email: NMSS (Williams), INES (Smith), NMSS Events Notification, and ILTAB. Notified external: DHS SWO, FEMA Ops Center, USDA Ops Center, HHS Ops Center, DOE Ops Center, DHS CISA Central, and EPA EOC and via E-mail: FDA EOC, Nuclear SSA, FEMA National Watch Center, and CWMD Watch Desk. 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 |
| Where | |
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| Qsa Global, Inc. Burlington, Massachusetts (NRC Region 1) | |
| License number: | 12-8361 |
| Organization: | Ma Radiation Control Program |
| Reporting | |
| Agreement State | |
| Time - Person (Reporting Time:+252.1 h10.504 days <br />1.501 weeks <br />0.345 months <br />) | |
| Opened: | Tony Carpenito 16:06 Aug 4, 2022 |
| NRC Officer: | Donald Norwood |
| Last Updated: | Aug 8, 2022 |
| 56030 - NRC Website | |
Qsa Global, Inc. with Agreement State | |
WEEKMONTHYEARENS 560302022-07-25T04:00:00025 July 2022 04:00:00
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