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The following report was received from the … The following report was received from the State of Texas via email:</br>On May 29, 2015, a licensee notified the Agency (Texas Department of State Health Services) that it was unable to locate a package containing approximately 41.2 millicuries of Iodine-125 seeds. The package had been received at the licensee's facility on May 26, 2015, and per the licensee's procedures, it was delivered to the nuclear medicine department and left in the designated area. However, the staff in the nuclear medicine department had been allowed to leave due to a slow schedule. On May 27, 2015, when staff returned, they were unable to locate the package. The licensee conducted a facility wide search. The (licensee's) materials management employee that placed the package in the nuclear medicine department and the housekeeping employee that cleaned the department the previous night were interviewed. The housekeeper reported, (to have) not removed any boxes from the department. The licensee was unable to identify anyone else had entered the department. The facility's waste container had been picked up and taken to the landfill earlier that morning. The licensee checked with the landfill and learned it does have a radiation monitor but the container from the hospital had not set it off. The contents of the container had already been covered over in the landfill. The patient's procedure was canceled and re-scheduled. The licensee has changed its procedures for radioactive material package delivery by the facility's materials management to the nuclear medicine department to prevent reoccurrence. The licensee is continuing its search for the package. An investigation into this event is ongoing. The Agency (Texas Department of State Health Services) has withheld the name of the licensee (and license number and location) in accordance with Texas state law. Further information will be provided as it is obtained in accordance with SA-300.</br>Texas Incident #: I-9317</br>THIS MATERIAL EVENT CONTAINS A "LESS THAN CAT 3" LEVEL OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL</br>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.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1227_web.pdf
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The following report was received from the … The following report was received from the State of Texas via email:</br>On May 29, 2015, a licensee notified the Agency (Texas Department of State Health Services) that it was unable to locate a package containing approximately 41.2 millicuries of Iodine-125 seeds. The package had been received at the licensee's facility on May 26, 2015, and per the licensee's procedures, it was delivered to the nuclear medicine department and left in the designated area. However, the staff in the nuclear medicine department had been allowed to leave due to a slow schedule. On May 27, 2015, when staff returned, they were unable to locate the package. The licensee conducted a facility wide search. The (licensee's) materials management employee that placed the package in the nuclear medicine department and the housekeeping employee that cleaned the department the previous night were interviewed. The housekeeper reported, (to have) not removed any boxes from the department. The licensee was unable to identify anyone else had entered the department. The facility's waste container had been picked up and taken to the landfill earlier that morning. The licensee checked with the landfill and learned it does have a radiation monitor but the container from the hospital had not set it off. The contents of the container had already been covered over in the landfill. The patient's procedure was canceled and re-scheduled. The licensee has changed its procedures for radioactive material package delivery by the facility's materials management to the nuclear medicine department to prevent reoccurrence. The licensee is continuing its search for the package. An investigation into this event is ongoing. The Agency (Texas Department of State Health Services) has withheld the name of the licensee (and license number and location) in accordance with Texas state law. Further information will be provided as it is obtained in accordance with SA-300.</br>Texas Incident #: I-9317</br>THIS MATERIAL EVENT CONTAINS A "LESS THAN CAT 3" LEVEL OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL</br>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.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1227_web.pdf
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