ENS 56604
ENS Event | |
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21:50 Jun 30, 2023 | |
| Title | Missing Radiography Camera |
| Event Description | The following information was provided by the New Mexico Environment Department via phone and email:
Acuren Inspection, Inc., New Mexico Radioactive Materials License IR-448, reported a missing source of licensed material, a lost gamma camera for industrial radiography with an unknown total quantity of radioactivity. The device was lost between the cities of Carlsbad and Jal, New Mexico on Highway 128 around mile marker 38 on June 30, 2023, at approximately 1550 MDT. Crews are actively looking for the missing device. The licensee is licensed for gamma cameras with sources of iridium-192 not to exceed 150 curies and selenium-75 not to exceed 100 curies. A request for further information from the licensee as events develop has been made. 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 device was recovered in Kermit, Texas on July 3, 2023, and reported to the State of New Mexico at approximately 1220 [MDT]. Notified internal: R4DO (Drake), NMSS (email), NMSS (Williams), ILTAB (email), ILTAB (MacDonald), IRMOC (Crouch), INES (Smith), CNSNS (Mexico) (email). 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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| Acuren Inspection, Inc. Carlsbad, New Mexico (NRC Region 4) | |
| License number: | IR-448 |
| Organization: | New Mexico Rad Control Program |
| Reporting | |
| Agreement State | |
| Time - Person (Reporting Time:+-2.38 h-0.0992 days <br />-0.0142 weeks <br />-0.00326 months <br />) | |
| Opened: | Robert Bicknell 19:27 Jun 30, 2023 |
| NRC Officer: | Eric Simpson |
| Last Updated: | Jul 10, 2023 |
| 56604 - NRC Website | |
Acuren Inspection, Inc. with Agreement State | |
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