PNO-III-89-065A, on 890927,damaged Package Containing I-125 Found Leaking When Delivery Truck Arrived at Great Lakes Naval Training Ctr.Contamination Found on Soft Drink Cans & Packaging Matls Delivered for Use in Vending Machine

PNO-III-89-065A:on 890927,damaged Package Containing I-125 Found Leaking When Delivery Truck Arrived at Great Lakes Naval Training Ctr.Contamination Found on Soft Drink Cans & Packaging Matls Delivered for Use in Vending Machine

ML20248C023
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Issue date:	09/28/1989
From:	Caniano R, Jeffery Lynch, Mallett B NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III)
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PNO-III-89-065A, PNO-III-89-65A, NUDOCS 8910030349
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PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION--OF EVENT OR UNUSUAL-0CCURRENCE PNO-III-89-65A Date September-28, 1989 yy ec RThis' preliminary notification constitutes EARLY notice of events of POSSIBLE-fV

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3 Facility: :U. S. Navy.

Licensee Emergency Great Lakes Naval ~.

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. Alert Site Area Emergency

-License No. 12-68849-61NP General Emergency XX Not Applicable

.Subj:ct: DAMAGED PACKAGE CONTAINING 10 DINE-125 (UPDATE)

On September 27, 1989,'. Illinois Department of. Nuclear Safety inspectors found

. iodine-125 contamination on items which had been carried in a delivery truck Enear a package.of iodine.12b which was leaking when it arrived at the Great I

Lakes; Naval Training Center.

1 The contamination was on soft drink cans and packaging material which had been I

delivared.to a Wheeling, Illinois, company for use in vending machines. The 1 state inspectors collected 76 contaminated cans.and associated packaging.

Packages of candy, also carried in the delivery truck, and the vending machines

.containing the soft drinks and candy were found to be free of contamination.

Ona cmployee.at the Wheeling location was found to have low level hand Contamination, and.a second individual had possible hand contamination. Both individuals successfully removed the contamination by washing.

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1The driver of'the delivery truck had'previously been found to be free of contamination, but.a thyroid survey detected evidence of a small uptake of the j

radioactive iodine. Because~of the-low level involved, however, no medical u

. treatment was considered necessary.

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<<The state inspectors concluded that the iodine nackage was probably damaged i

while'in the delivery vehicle --~the driver repurted that his load had shifted.

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ThscontaminateditemsweretakentotheArlingtonHeights, Illinois, facility of Anersham, which had originally shipped the iodine-125 from its California facility. The delivery truck was also decontaminated.

This updated information was obtained from the Illinois Department of Huclear

. Safety. 'It is current as of 10:00 a.m., September 28, 1989.

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