"On June 18th 2015 at approximately 1130 EDT while parked at a Hawthorn Suites in Meriden, Ct., an attempted breech of a darkroom containing a Sentinel Delta 880 Device Serial # D3582, with a model
A424-9 Ir-192 source serial #17586G (100 curies). Operator 1 and Operator 2 were sitting on the back patio of the hotel when they heard the alarm chirp twice on a darkroom unit. Operator 1 ran to the unit to make sure everything was okay. When he got to the side of the darkroom he looked around the back and saw a black male standing on the bumper of unit # 1620 [truck] trying to break in with a screw driver. Operator 1 yelled for Operator 2 that someone was trying to break into the darkroom. The burglar was scared off, then the burglar came back to retrieve his budget rental van and he sped off. The Meriden Police Department was immediately contacted and dispatched to the scene, Officer took all statements and the police report # 15-004841 was filed. Unit was checked to make sure that security of all locks and that the alarm system was still
operable.
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RSO) was made aware of this attempted breech on 10/26/2015 at 5:03 pm by NRC auditor.