Event Notification Report for August 1, 2002
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Operations Center
Event Reports For
07/31/2002 - 08/01/2002
** EVENT NUMBERS **
39094 39096
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|General Information or Other |Event Number: 39094 |
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| REP ORG: FLORIDA BUREAU OF RADIATION CONTROL |NOTIFICATION DATE:
07/26/2002|
|LICENSEE: |NOTIFICATION TIME: 08:44[EDT]|
| CITY: REGION: |EVENT DATE: 07/26/2002|
| COUNTY: STATE: |EVENT TIME: [EST]|
|LICENSE#: AGREEMENT: N |LAST UPDATE DATE: 07/26/2002|
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| |PERSON ORGANIZATION |
| |MARK LESSER R2 |
| |DON COOL NMSS |
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| NRC NOTIFIED BY: JOHN WILLIAMSON | |
| HQ OPS OFFICER: STEVE SANDIN | |
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|EMERGENCY CLASS: NON EMERGENCY | |
|10 CFR SECTION: | |
|NAGR AGREEMENT STATE | |
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| AGREEMENT STATE REPORT INVOLVING CRASH OF AIRCRAFT CARRYING RAD
MATERIAL |
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| The Florida Bureau of Radiation Control was notified that a FEDEX aircraft |
| carrying Rad I/II material, isotopes and quantities unknown, had crashed at |
| the Tallahassee airport between 0745-0800EDT on 7/26/02. The State of |
| Florida was responding and did not request NRC assistance at this time. |
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|General Information or Other |Event Number: 39096 |
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| REP ORG: COLORADO DEPT OF HEALTH |NOTIFICATION DATE: 07/26/2002|
|LICENSEE: ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL |NOTIFICATION TIME: 19:30[EDT]|
| CITY: GRAND JUNCTION REGION: 4 |EVENT DATE: 07/26/2002|
| COUNTY: STATE: CO |EVENT TIME: 16:45[MDT]|
|LICENSE#: AGREEMENT: Y |LAST UPDATE DATE: 07/26/2002|
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| |PERSON ORGANIZATION |
| |BILL JONES R4 |
| |MELVYN LEACH NMSS |
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| NRC NOTIFIED BY: P. V. EGIDI | |
| HQ OPS OFFICER: FANGIE JONES | |
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|EMERGENCY CLASS: NON EMERGENCY | |
|10 CFR SECTION: | |
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| AGREEMENT STATE REPORT - MISSING I-125 SEEDS |
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| The following is from a facsimile report: |
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| "At approximately 4:45 PM Friday July 26, 2002, I [Colorado Department of |
| Health and Environment] received a call from ..., RSO and Medical Physicist |
| at St. Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction, Colorado. |
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| "[RSO] informed us he is missing 3, I-125 prostrate seeds (approx. 0.36 mCi |
| [millicuries] each). He was made aware of the loss late this morning. |
| Surveys were conducted in all suspect areas of the hospital to no avail. It |
| is possible that either the seeds never arrived due to poor inventory |
| control of the supplier, or that the seeds went to the trash, which left the |
| hospital around 7:00 A.M. Since the seeds are shielded, they would probably |
| not be detected at the landfill." |
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