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05:00 Dec 13, 2004 | |
| Title | Agreement State Report Involving A Lost/Missing Source |
| Event Description | The following information was received via facsimile:
NY-06-004 Lost/missing Am-241, 250 nano-curie source, 12/13/2004 Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604, RML # 410 College staff called to report that they had lost a 250 nCi Am-241 source. The source is a button source, approximately 2 cm in diameter. The source was discovered missing about 3 months ago, but they failed to report to NYS DOH because they were trying to locate it. The source may have been moved from its storage space in the physics department to a location in the biology department in December 2003 when they were preparing a 10 mCi Am-241 source for shipment to NSSI for disposal at Los Alamos. They think they may have shipped this source along with the 10 mCi Am-241 source. The last time they actually saw the source was when it was leak tested in 2002. Los Alamos is preparing to go through shipments stored at NSSI for repackaging and disposal. Los Alamos will look for the missing source in the shipment. Vassar College will send a written report. An acknowledgement of their written report was sent and it asked them to keep us apprised of the results of the search at NSSI/LANL. A Notice of Violation was issued for missing quarterly inventories, late reporting of the missing source, no record of transfer/disposal of source. 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. This source is not amongst those sources or devices identified by the IAEA Code of Conduct for the Safety & Security of Radioactive Sources to be of concern from a radiological standpoint. Therefore is it being categorized as a less than Category 3 source |
| Where | |
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| Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York (NRC Region 1) | |
| License number: | Rml # 410 |
| Organization: | New York State Dept. Of Health |
| Reporting | |
| Agreement State | |
| Time - Person (Reporting Time:+10474.42 h436.434 days <br />62.348 weeks <br />14.348 months <br />) | |
| Opened: | R. Dansereau (Via Fax) 15:25 Feb 22, 2006 |
| NRC Officer: | Steve Sandin |
| Last Updated: | Feb 22, 2006 |
| 42361 - NRC Website | |
Vassar College with Agreement State | |
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[Table view]Agreement State Agreement State Report Involving a Lost/Missing Source 2004-12-13T05:00:00 | |