ENS Event | |
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16:20 Feb 15, 2011 | |
| Title | Missing Tc-99 Generator |
| Event Description | The licensee was shipping a 16 Curie MO-99/TC-99 Generator inside a 49 lb depleted uranium cask with an activity level of 8.09 millicuries of U-238 to a customer in Port Huron, Michigan. Shipping documents indicate that the ground courier (Associated Couriers, Inc.) had taken custody of the shipment from the air courier (AirNet) and transported it to its warehouse near Detroit, Michigan. When the ground courier went to make delivery of the device to the customer, the shipment could not be located. The licensee has contacted both the ground courier and air courier as well as the customers along the delivery route in an attempt to find the device.
THIS MATERIAL EVENT CONTAINS A "CATEGORY 3" LEVEL OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL Category 3 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 some hours. It could possibly - although it is unlikely - be fatal to be close to this amount of unshielded radioactive material for a period of days to weeks. These sources are typically used in practices such as fixed industrial gauges involving high activity sources (for example: level gauges, dredger gauges, conveyor gauges and spinning pipe gauges) and well logging. For additional information go to http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1227_web.pdf |
| Where | |
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| Mallinckrodt Inc. Maryland Hts, Missouri (NRC Region 3) | |
| License number: | 24-04206-01 |
| Organization: | Mallinckrodt Inc. |
| Reporting | |
| 10 CFR 20.2201(a)(1)(ii) | |
| Time - Person (Reporting Time:+-4.83 h-0.201 days <br />-0.0287 weeks <br />-0.00662 months <br />) | |
| Opened: | James Schuh 11:30 Feb 15, 2011 |
| NRC Officer: | Joe O'Hara |
| Last Updated: | Feb 15, 2011 |
| 46615 - NRC Website | |
Mallinckrodt Inc. with 10 CFR 20.2201(a)(1)(ii) | |
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