ENS Event | |
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20:34 Sep 26, 2025 | |
| Title | Lost Source |
| Event Description | The following information was provided by the Florida Bureau of Radiation Control (BRC) via email:
The radiation safety officer (RSO) with Citrus Cardiology Consultants in Crystal River, Florida, called the BRC this afternoon regarding a lost 94.6 microcurie Ge-68 source, S/N 2509-89. The RSO said the source is used in a BQC Styrofoam pillow for tuning a positron emission tomography (PET) camera. The RSO said an installer for their new PET camera, out of Houston, Texas, used the Ge-68 source with a Styrofoam pillow to tune the new PET and left the source and pillow in their hot lab. The pillow is approximately two feet long and crescent shaped. The RSO said nobody associated with the hot lab saw the BQC pillow, the source, or the box it supposedly came in. The installer has reciprocity with Florida. The company is Catalyst MedTech in Houston, Texas. FL incident number: FL25-095 THIS MATERIAL EVENT CONTAINS A 'Less than Cat 3' LEVEL OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL 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 |
| Where | |
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| Citrus Cardiology Consultants Crystal River, Florida (NRC Region 1) | |
| License number: | 4829-5 |
| Organization: | Florida Bureau Of Radiation Control |
| Reporting | |
| Agreement State | |
| Time - Person (Reporting Time:+-4 h-0.167 days <br />-0.0238 weeks <br />-0.00548 months <br />) | |
| Opened: | Mark Seidensticker 16:34 Sep 26, 2025 |
| NRC Officer: | Josue Ramirez |
| Last Updated: | Sep 26, 2025 |
| 57956 - NRC Website | |
Citrus Cardiology Consultants with Agreement State | |
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