Event Notification Report for November 16, 2001
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Operations Center
Event Reports For
11/15/2001 - 11/16/2001
** EVENT NUMBERS **
38500
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|General Information or Other |Event Number: 38500 |
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| REP ORG: TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH |NOTIFICATION DATE: 11/13/2001|
|LICENSEE: TEXAS DOT |NOTIFICATION TIME: 15:21[EST]|
| CITY: CROSSLANDS REGION: 4 |EVENT DATE: 11/09/2001|
| COUNTY: STATE: TX |EVENT TIME: [CST]|
|LICENSE#: L00197-075 AGREEMENT: Y |LAST UPDATE DATE: 11/13/2001|
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| |PERSON ORGANIZATION |
| |CHARLES MARSCHALL R4 |
| |JOHN HICKEY NMSS |
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| NRC NOTIFIED BY: JAMES H. OGDEN, JR | |
| HQ OPS OFFICER: STEVE SANDIN | |
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|EMERGENCY CLASS: NON EMERGENCY | |
|10 CFR SECTION: | |
|NAGR AGREEMENT STATE | |
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EVENT TEXT
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| AGREEMENT STATE REPORT INVOLVING A TROXLER GAUGE STOLEN FROM A TxDOT
FIELD |
| OFFICE |
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| "The gauge is suspected of being stolen during the hours of darkness on the |
| evening of November 9, 2001. The site was discovered vandalized by a |
| contractor on the morning of November 10, 2001. However, it was thought that |
| only the contractors equipment had been broken into. A portable generator |
| was stolen, as was a water truck which had been driven through the front |
| (locked) gate. The truck was found abandoned approximately 2 to 2 � miles |
| from the site abandoned in a field. When TxDOT personnel arrived on site |
| Monday November 12, 2001, they discovered that their site trailer had also |
| been broken into. The door lock and knob were broken as was a rear window to |
| the trailer. Inside, the locked closet had it's hasp and lock pried from the |
| door. The only thing missing was the gauge and it's transportation case, |
| although other high dollar equipment was also locked in the closet and |
| computers/printer, etc were located in the trailer. The gauge was in a |
| locked trailer, locked in it's transportation container and had the control |
| rod locked. A police report was filed with the Denton County Sheriff's |
| Office. This gauge was ... transferred to TxDOT under contract September 12, |
| 2001. The gauge has been maintain at the temporary job site since that |
| date." |
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| "Texas Incident No.: I-7827 |
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| "Licensee: Texas Department of Transportation, McKinney Area Office |
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| "Event Location: 12000 Highway 380, Crossroads, Texas 76227 (TxDOT - Field |
| Office) a locked Field Office Trailer |
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| "Event Type: Stolen Radioactive Material - Troxler Nuclear Gauge |
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| "Notifications: CRCPD, surrounding states, Troxler R.S.O., Texas Public |
| Health Region #3 (Arlington)." |
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