ENS 53679
ENS Event | |
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05:00 Oct 20, 2018 | |
| Title | Agreement State Report - Radiography Source Failure to Retract |
| Event Description | The following information was received via E-mail:
On October 20, 2018, the agency [Texas Department of State Health Services] was notified by the licensee's radiation safety officer (RSO) that one of its radiography crews was unable to return an 80 curie iridium-192 source to the fully shielded position in an INC IR 100 exposure device. The RSO stated that the event occurred near Pecos, Texas. The RSO stated that the radiographers had established a 2 millirem boundary. An individual listed on their license responded to perform the source retrieval. The location where the event occurred was remote and the event did not present an exposure risk to any individual. The RSO stated that there are very few people at the site. Once the individual who was sent to retrieve the source arrived, they inspected the exposure device and guide tube. The inspection discovered the radiographers had bent the guide tube to get it through some pipes and the angle of the bend was what had prevented the source from being retracted. The guide tube was straightened and the source was retracted to the fully shielded position at 2100 hours0.0243 days <br />0.583 hours <br />0.00347 weeks <br />7.9905e-4 months <br />. The guide tube was inspected and did not have any damage. The RSO stated that no overexposures had occurred. Texas Incident Number: 9622 |
| Where | |
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| Desert Ndt Llc Abilene, Texas (NRC Region 4) | |
| License number: | LICEN-RAM-L06462 |
| Organization: | Texas Dept Of State Health Services |
| Reporting | |
| Agreement State | |
| Time - Person (Reporting Time:+35.32 h1.472 days <br />0.21 weeks <br />0.0484 months <br />) | |
| Opened: | Arthur Tucker 16:19 Oct 21, 2018 |
| NRC Officer: | Donald Norwood |
| Last Updated: | Oct 21, 2018 |
| 53679 - NRC Website | |
Desert Ndt Llc with Agreement State | |
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