ENS Event | |
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14:00 Jun 16, 2025 | |
| Title | Found Radioactive Source |
| Event Description | On 6/16/2025, at 1000 EDT, Radius Recycling in Everett, MA, reported that portal monitors detected radioactive contamination in a scrap load. The load was shipped back to the origin of the load, Second Street Iron and Metal in Everett, MA, on the same day.
On 6/24/2025, Atlantic Nuclear identified a static eliminator [in the scrap load which is] containing a Ra-226 source. The source measured 50 mR/hr on contact and 1.5 mR/hr at one foot from the source. Given this information, the source activity is estimated to be 0.2 mCi. This quantity is immediately reportable to NRC pursuant to 105 CMR 120.281. The device is now located in a drum in a locked room at the facility with no access to personnel. The model number and serial number of the source and the device are unknown at this time. MA Event Number: N/A 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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| Second Street Iron And Metal Everett, Massachusetts (NRC Region 1) | |
| License number: | N/A |
| Organization: | Ma Radiation Control Program |
| Reporting | |
| Agreement State | |
| Time - Person (Reporting Time:+190.22 h7.926 days <br />1.132 weeks <br />0.261 months <br />) | |
| Opened: | Robert Locke 12:13 Jun 24, 2025 |
| NRC Officer: | Ian Howard |
| Last Updated: | Jun 24, 2025 |
| 57781 - NRC Website | |
Second Street Iron And Metal with Agreement State | |
WEEKMONTHYEARENS 577812025-06-16T14:00:00016 June 2025 14:00:00
[Table view]Agreement State Found Radioactive Source 2025-06-16T14:00:00 | |