ML20154F380
| ML20154F380 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 05/11/1988 |
| From: | Kinneman J NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
| To: | Gibson T AIRBORNE EXPRESS, INC. |
| References | |
| REF-QA-99990001-880511 NUDOCS 8805230215 | |
| Download: ML20154F380 (2) | |
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e 11 MAY 1988 Docket No. 99990001 Airborne Express ATTN:
Timothy Gibson District Operations Manager 98-156 Port Street Newark, New Jersey 07114 Gentlemen:
Subject:
Inspection No. 99990001/83-69 On February 16, 1988, Lester M. Tripp and John T. Jensen of this office conducted an inspection of a report of a damaged package, at the Airborne Express Facility at 98-156 Port Street, Newark, New Jersey, containing millicurie amounts of iodine-125. The inspection consisted of observations by the inspectors, inter-views with personnel, area and personnel contamination surveys and repackaging of the subject radioactive material.
The findings of the investigation ware discussed with Walter Dollahon of your staff at the conclusion of the investigation.
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection contacted NRC Region I at 5:00 p.m. on February 16, 1988 and two NRC inspectors arrived at your facility at 7:30 p.m. on February 16, 1988. The inspectors were informed that a damaged package containing 15 Tandem-R HCG Kits (an Immuno Radio Metric Assay for the detection of Human Serum Chorionic Gonadotropin) shipped from the tranufacturer, Hybritech, Inc. San Diego, California, was discovered by an Airborne Express Supervisor on the loading platform at 2:30 p.m. that afternoon.
The inspectors determined from the kit label that each kit contained four vials of radioactive material each with less than 10 microcuries of iodine-125 (one one-thousandth of the reported activity).
Four of these kits were damaged, however, there was no evidence or leakage.
15 of the 16 vials containing radioactive material originally packaged in the damaged kits remained with the damaged packaging.
The sixteenth vial was found in a trash dumpster in the facility's parking lot.
There was no removable contamination on the vials and there was no contamination of the packaging materials.
The inspectors surveyed various areas of the facility and the personnel that came into contact with the package and did not find any contamination. We conclude that this c:currence did not result in any hazard to your personnel.
It is our understanding that Airborne Express has shipped the undamaged kits to their original consignee and returned the material from the damaged kits to the manufacturer.
If our understandings are incorrect please inform this office in writing.
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