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The following report was received from the … The following report was received from the Utah Department of Environmental Quality, Division of Waste Management and Radiation Control (the Division) via email:</br>On August 27, 2021, local heavy rain infiltrated the Merrill Engineering Building, causing flooding on the first and third floors. The first floor also included some radioactive materials labs. While stripping the labs on September 9, 2021, in preparation for repair, the contractor violated policy and failed to notify the lab owners before moving material from the lab. Included in the material removed from the lab was a safe containing 13 exempt calibration sources and one 0.006 milliCurie U-235 ceramic source. The safe was moved to an onsite trailer that was under control of the contractor and not the University. When the lab owner returned to the lab later in the day they immediately reported the sources missing. Investigation by licensee personnel lead them to where the sources were being stored. The sources were out of the licensee's exclusive control for 1 to 3 hours. The sources were re-secured and placed under the licensee's exclusive control closing the incident. The report was not determined to be reportable until the Division was able to conduct its on site investigation on September 20, 2021.</br>Utah Event Report ID Number: UT 210005</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 Utah Department of Environmental Quality, Division of Waste Management and Radiation Control (the Division) via email:</br>On August 27, 2021, local heavy rain infiltrated the Merrill Engineering Building, causing flooding on the first and third floors. The first floor also included some radioactive materials labs. While stripping the labs on September 9, 2021, in preparation for repair, the contractor violated policy and failed to notify the lab owners before moving material from the lab. Included in the material removed from the lab was a safe containing 13 exempt calibration sources and one 0.006 milliCurie U-235 ceramic source. The safe was moved to an onsite trailer that was under control of the contractor and not the University. When the lab owner returned to the lab later in the day they immediately reported the sources missing. Investigation by licensee personnel lead them to where the sources were being stored. The sources were out of the licensee's exclusive control for 1 to 3 hours. The sources were re-secured and placed under the licensee's exclusive control closing the incident. The report was not determined to be reportable until the Division was able to conduct its on site investigation on September 20, 2021.</br>Utah Event Report ID Number: UT 210005</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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