ML19256C930
| ML19256C930 | |
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| Issue date: | 06/28/1979 |
| From: | Metzger J NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE) |
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| PNO-79-200, NUDOCS 7910150758 | |
| Download: ML19256C930 (2) | |
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PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION June 28, 1979 PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE--PNO-79-200 This preliminary notification constitutes EARLY notice of events of POSSIBLE safety or public interest significance.
The information presented is as initially received without verification or evaluation and is basically all that is known by IE staff on this date.
Facility:
Detroit Metro Airport Detroit, Michigan
Subject:
DAMAGED PACKAGE OF MEDICAL RADIOISOTOPES An overpack containing three packages of radioactive material was damaged on June 26, 1979, in the cargo area of Northwest Orient Airlines.
The overpack contained one 31-millicurie package of Co-60 labled cyanocobalamin, which remained intact, and two T-3 kits con-taining about 4 microcuries each of I-125, one of which was totally crushed.
A representative from the State of Michigan Health Department responded to the incident and found that contamination was confined to the absorbent material around the one kit.
Personnel, the outer package, equipment, and the accident area were surveyed and no contamination was detected.
The shipper, Sky Cab, Incorporated, also had the area surveyed by a medical physicist from a Detroit hospital.
He detected no contamin-ation. The packages are being held by the State of Michigan Health Department.
The Co-60 package was being shipped by E. R. Squibb and Sons in New Jersey.
The I-125 kits were being shipped by Ortho-Diagnostics also of New Jersey.
It appears that Sky Cab, Incorporated of East Brunswick, New Jersey, placed all three packages in an overpack before they were shipped to the Hackley Hospital in Muskegon, Michigan.
There has been no media interest in this incident.
P egion III does not plan a presa release.
Region I has been given the above information and plans to determine if the overpack was properly labeled during a routine inspection in the next two months.
Region III (Chicago) received notification of this occurrence at about 4:00 p.m. (CDT) on June 26, 1979, from the DOE Radiological Assistance Team.
At that time, they stated that only 3.1 microcuries of Co-60 were involved and all material was intact.
Updated information was received at 3:00 p.m. (CDT) on June 27, 1979, from DOE and the State of Michigan which revealed that I-125 was involved and some leakage had occurred.
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