ENS 46408
ENS Event | |
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05:00 Nov 8, 2010 | |
| Title | Agreement State Report - Radioactive Material Shipment Fails to Arrive |
| Event Description | A shipment containing 88.7 Ci Ir-192 that was scheduled to be delivered on 11/8/2010 did not arrive as scheduled. A trace was requested today. Details are as follows:
On Friday 11/5/10, QSA Global, Inc (MA License 12-8361) shipped a CPIR100 to Kakivik Asset Management (NRC 50-27667-01) to be delivered C/O Northern Air Cargo in Anchorage, AK. It was shipped [by the carrier] P1 (Priority overnight) along with a small non-radioactive piece that contained a leak test kit. Both pieces were scheduled to be delivered to Northern Air Cargo on Monday 11/8/10. The leak test delivered without issue. However, the radioactive piece is still showing as arrived at [the carrier's] location in Newark, NJ. Today, Tuesday, 11/9/10, [the carrier] was contacted to put a trace on the radioactive material. They believe that the address label must have somehow come off the package. QSA provided a complete physical description of the IR100 overpack. Source serial # - 66641B Source Activity - 88.7 Ci / 3281.9 GBq Surface reading - 18.0 mr/hr Transport Index - 0.4
The following information was received via email: QSA has been notified by the carrier this morning that the package referenced [above] was located overnight and has been forwarded to its destination on a new tracking [number]. Notified R1DO (Bellamy), FSME (Burgess), and ILTAB (Pearson). THIS MATERIAL EVENT CONTAINS A "CATEGORY 2" LEVEL OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL 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. For additional information go to http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1227_web.pdf |
| Where | |
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| Qsa Global, Inc. Burlington, Massachusetts (NRC Region 1) | |
| License number: | 12-8361 |
| Organization: | Ma Radiation Control Program |
| Reporting | |
| Agreement State | |
| Time - Person (Reporting Time:+34.7 h1.446 days <br />0.207 weeks <br />0.0475 months <br />) | |
| Opened: | Salisu Dakubu 15:42 Nov 9, 2010 |
| NRC Officer: | Mark Abramovitz |
| Last Updated: | Nov 10, 2010 |
| 46408 - NRC Website | |
Qsa Global, Inc. with Agreement State | |
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