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| issue date = 03/13/1989
| title = PNO-I-89-022:on 890310,Region I Notified That 25 Mci Cs-137 Source Retrieved from Trash Rejected by State of CT Disposal Facility on 890309.State of CT Notified
| author name = Darden T, Glenn J
| author affiliation = NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION &amp; ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
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| document report number = PNO-I-89-022, PNO-I-89-22, NUDOCS 8903210369
| document type = PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR OCCURRENCE (PNO,, TEXT-INSPECTION &amp; AUDIT &amp; I&amp;E CIRCULARS
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DCS No:   03001244890313'
                             ;                                Date:     March 13, 1989 PRELM4INARY NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE--PNO-I-89-022 '
SThis : preliminary notification constitutes EARLY notice of events 'of. POSSIBLE safety-ortpublic interest. significance. .The information~is as initially received without
: verification or' evaluation, and is basically all that is known by the Region I staff on this date.
Facility: .              ..
Licensee EmergencyfClassification:-
7 Yale-New Haven Hospital                            Notification of Unusual. Event
   ;New Haven, Connecticut                              Alert Docket No. 030-01244-                              Site Area. Emergency
                                                      . General Emergency X     Not Applicable-

==Subject:==
Retrival of Discarded Cesium-137 Source On' March'10' 1989 at 4:45 P.M. Yale-New Haven Hospital's Radiation Safety Officer (RS0) notified Region I that a 25 millicurie cesium-137 brachytherapy source was retrieved lfrom trash that was' rejected by a Connecticut Regional Waste ~ Disposal facility on March 9,z 1989.because of measurable radiation levels. The Radiation Safety Officer
    . stated that, on March 9,1989,. he received notification of the trash rejection and went
    .to the site, surveyed the trash and measured radiation levels of up to 12 millirem per hour. A check was made at the. hospital for misplaced'or lost sources and generators,
   -but no loss.was identified. On March 10, 1989 a' decision was made tol sort the trash.
The source was located in a plastic bag. The cesium-137. brachytherapy source was from a 3M Heyman-afterloading applicator.- The inventory made after the last use of the brachytherapy device. failed to detect. that the applicator was- broken where:the, source          .
capsule'is brazed to the. applicator rod.      The licensee failed to survey the patient's        i room after the sources were removed from the patient.                                              i i
The. State of Connecticut has been notified.      An inspector from the State was on site          i
   ;during the efforts to recove the source from the trash.                                            1
             /                                                                                          j Region I will review this incident at an inspection to be scheduled in the near future.
Region I is prepared to respond to~ media inquiries.
This information is current as of 2:00 p.m., March 13, 1989.                                       i CONTACT:    T. Darden             J. Glenn 346-5245              346-5209 8903210369 890313 PTIR   ISE          PDC PNO-I-89-022
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