ENS Event | |
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07:00 Oct 31, 2005 | |
| Title | Agreement State Report - Missing Radiography Camera |
| Event Description | At 0100 on 10/31/05 the licensee discovered that a SPEC 150 Radiography Camera (camera s/n 204) with a 64 Curie Ir-192 (s/n 217221B) source was stolen from the company's office. The camera was in a locked space. The camera was last used on 10/28/05, and was logged in at 0100 on 10/29/05. A dispatcher saw the camera at 1500 on 10/28/05. At 0100 on 10/31/05, a radiographer went to the space to get the gauge and discovered that it was gone. The Tulsa Police Department was notified.
Category 2 sources, if not safely managed or securely protected, could cause permanent injury to a person who handled them, or were otherwise in contact with them, for a short time (minutes to hours). It could possibly be fatal to be close to this amount of unshielded radioactive material for a period of hours to days. These sources are typically used in practices such as industrial gamma radiography, high dose rate brachytherapy and medium dose rate brachytherapy.
The Department of Environmental Quality in Oklahoma provided information that the missing radiography camera was recovered at 07:30 CST. Due to local media coverage in the area, a private citizen called the number published by the TV media and volunteered information. The citizen indicated he saw the camera near the freeway entrance of 33 West Avenue and I-44 in West Tulsa, OK. The camera, which was found in a grassy area (weeds) near a privacy fence (wall), was intact with the source in the shielded position. The licensee (IRIS-NDT) has surveyed the site and said the readings were consistent with a source inside a camera. The Tulsa police department is still pursuing the investigation. The licensee offered a reward of $1,000 for information leading to the recovery of the camera. Notified R4DO (Farnholtz), NMSS (Burgess), TAS (English), IRD (Wilson, Blount, and Leach) DHS (Holtz), NRC (Doherty), FEMA (Liggett), and HHS (Turner). |
| Where | |
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| Iris Ndt Tulsa, Oklahoma (NRC Region 4) | |
| License number: | OK30246-02 |
| Organization: | Ok Deq Rad Management |
| Reporting | |
| Agreement State | |
| Time - Person (Reporting Time:+10.57 h0.44 days <br />0.0629 weeks <br />0.0145 months <br />) | |
| Opened: | Mike Broderick 17:34 Oct 31, 2005 |
| NRC Officer: | Bill Gott |
| Last Updated: | Nov 2, 2005 |
| 42103 - NRC Website | |
Iris Ndt with Agreement State | |
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[Table view]Agreement State Potential Overexposure to Radiographer ENS 421562005-11-19T02:00:00019 November 2005 02:00:00 Agreement State Agreement State Report - Potential Overexposure of a Radiographer ENS 421032005-10-31T07:00:00031 October 2005 07:00:00 Agreement State Agreement State Report - Missing Radiography Camera 2021-05-28T20:00:00 | |