Event Notification Report for February 09, 2014

AGREEMENT STATE REPORT - RADIOGRAPHY CAMERA LEFT UNATTENDED

The following Agreement State report was received via email:

"On February 10, 2014, [the California Department of Health, Radiologic Health Branch] RHB Richmond received a call from the MISTRAS Group RSO, indicating that a radiographer had inadvertently left behind a radiography camera when he drove off the parking lot at the Chevron Richmond Refinery. On February 9, 2014, at 1035 [PST] after the radiographer finished radiography using IR100 Camera containing 31 Curies Ir-192, s/n 6614, he left the radiography camera on the bumper of the truck; later, assuming that he left the camera inside the truck, he drove off and the camera fell onto the pavement. According to the radiographer, the camera was left unattended for a short period of time. Later, a Chevron Richmond employee noticed the camera in the parking lot and contacted the Chevron facility Manager. Chevron management contacted Mistras RSO and he drove to the refinery and took possession of the camera."

California Report #: 021014

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

AGREEMENT STATE REPORT - RADIOGRAPHY CAMERA SOURCE DISCONNECT

The following Agreement State report was received via email:

"On February 10, 2014, [the California Department of Health, Radiologic Health Branch] RHB Richmond received a call from MISTRAS Group, Inc. RSO, regarding a source disconnect. On February 9, 2014, at 0600 [PST], during radiography at Chevron Refinery, using IR-100 camera, containing 31 Curies, Ir-192, s/n 6614, the source pigtail connector became disconnected from the drive cable. Following good health physics practices, the RSO retrieved and secured the source into the shielded position. Exposures to personnel [were] less than 50 millirem for this event."

California Report #: 021114

AGREEMENT STATE REPORT - RADIOGRAPHY CAMERA LEFT UNATTENDED

The following Agreement State report was received via email:

"[The California Department of Health, Radiologic Health Branch] RHB Richmond received an incident report from the Qualspect Manager, via an email that a radiography camera had been left unattended. On February 9, 2014, between 0030 and 0245 [PST], Qualspect employees were conducting a radiography operation using [a camera containing an] Ir-192 104 Curie [source], camera s/n 4850, at the Valero Benicia Refinery. During the operation a few Qualspect rope [access] employees were in the area, their presence distracted the two radiographers thinking that another radiographer was in the area, so they left to process film. While the film was being processed, the camera was [left] dangling at 2 feet from the floor and unattended. A Valero Benicia Refinery employee discovered the suspended camera and brought it to the Qualspect employees' attention. Shortly thereafter, the Qualspect employees took possession of the camera."

The California RHB considers this a major event and is conducting an investigation. There were no personnel overexposures.

California Report #021014

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

LOSS OF OFFSITE COMMUNICATIONS CAPABILITY

"On 02/09/2014, at 0100 [EST], a major portion of Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station's [PBAPS] offsite communication capability was discovered to be non-functional due to an offsite communications equipment failure outside the control of PBAPS. Peach Bottom continues to investigate and resolve the cause of this loss of offsite communications. Peach Bottom Main Control Room ENS and offsite communication lines have been restored and are currently available. The Technical Support Center is limited to satellite phones for offsite communications. On-site communications were not affected.

"This report is being submitted pursuant to 10CFR 50.72(b)(3)(xiii) as a result of a major loss of offsite communications capability.

"The NRC [Resident Inspector] has been informed of this notification."