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The licensee provided the following inform … The licensee provided the following information via facsimile:</br>A facility in Twin Falls, Idaho was shipping a 6 Ci Ir-192 HDR source back to Alpha & Omega Services for disposal. The carrier was FedEx. When the package arrived at Alpha & Omega and was opened, it contained a helicopter part and not a source. Will update when information is available.</br>Event Report ID No: LA070018</br>See also Event Notification #43484</br>* * * UPDATE AT 1054 EDT ON 7/16/07 FROM RICHARD PENROD TO S. SANDIN * * *</br>The following information was received via fax:</br>This source was never lost. The facility did not follow their SOPS and log in the shipment from FEDEX. The source was in the facility the entire time.</br>Notified R4DO (Pick) and FSME (Wastler).</br>THIS MATERIAL EVENT CONTAINS A "CATEGORY 3" LEVEL OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL</br>Category 3 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 some hours. It could possibly - although it is unlikely - be fatal to be close to this amount of unshielded radioactive material for a period of days to weeks. These sources are typically used in practices such as fixed industrial gauges involving high activity sources (for example, level gauges, dredger gauges, conveyor gauges and spinning pipe gauges) and well logging.</br>Although IAEA categorization of this event is typically based on device type, the staff has been made aware of the actual activity of the source, and after calculation determines that it is a Category 3 event.</br>Note: the value assigned by device type "Category 2" is different than the calculated value "Category 3is different than the calculated value "Category 3 +
05:00:00, 11 July 2007 +
43,480 +
15:59:00, 11 July 2007 +
05:00:00, 11 July 2007 +
The licensee provided the following inform … The licensee provided the following information via facsimile:</br>A facility in Twin Falls, Idaho was shipping a 6 Ci Ir-192 HDR source back to Alpha & Omega Services for disposal. The carrier was FedEx. When the package arrived at Alpha & Omega and was opened, it contained a helicopter part and not a source. Will update when information is available.</br>Event Report ID No: LA070018</br>See also Event Notification #43484</br>* * * UPDATE AT 1054 EDT ON 7/16/07 FROM RICHARD PENROD TO S. SANDIN * * *</br>The following information was received via fax:</br>This source was never lost. The facility did not follow their SOPS and log in the shipment from FEDEX. The source was in the facility the entire time.</br>Notified R4DO (Pick) and FSME (Wastler).</br>THIS MATERIAL EVENT CONTAINS A "CATEGORY 3" LEVEL OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL</br>Category 3 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 some hours. It could possibly - although it is unlikely - be fatal to be close to this amount of unshielded radioactive material for a period of days to weeks. These sources are typically used in practices such as fixed industrial gauges involving high activity sources (for example, level gauges, dredger gauges, conveyor gauges and spinning pipe gauges) and well logging.</br>Although IAEA categorization of this event is typically based on device type, the staff has been made aware of the actual activity of the source, and after calculation determines that it is a Category 3 event.</br>Note: the value assigned by device type "Category 2" is different than the calculated value "Category 3is different than the calculated value "Category 3 +
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00:00:00, 16 July 2007 +
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15:59:00, 11 July 2007 +
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