The following information was provided by the
Illinois Emergency Management Agency (the Agency) via email:
The Agency was notified after hours on 10/27/22, that a radiopharmaceutical package containing 4.089 mCi of In-111 was reported as lost while in the care of a common carrier. This does not represent a significant public safety hazard and there is no indication of intentional theft or diversion. Details on the package and shipment are provided below. TN [Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation] program have been notified along with the US NRC Operations Center.
The package was shipped 10/13/22, from the licensee's facility in Arlington Heights, IL to Isologic Innovative in Burlington, Ontario Canada. The package made it to the [common carrier] hub in Memphis, TN under tracking number [REDACTED]. Thereafter, it could not be accounted for and was declared lost on 10/27/22. The package activity was 4.089 mCi at time of shipment, but has decayed to approximately 0.127 mCi at this time [10/28/22].
Updates will be provided as they become available.
Illinois Event Number: IL220041
- * * UPDATE FROM GARY FORSEE TO LLOYD DESOTELL AT 1349 EDT ON 11/04/2022 * * *
The following information was provided by the Illinois Emergency Management Agency via email:
The package has been located and delivered as intended. The Agency considers this matter closed.
Notified R3DO (Ruiz). Notified NMSS Events Notification 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