Event Notification Report for September 11, 2006
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Operations Center
EVENT REPORTS FOR
09/10/2006 - 09/11/2006
EVENT NUMBERS
42838
General Information or Other
Event Number: 42838
Rep Org: NC DIV OF RADIATION PROTECTION
Licensee: DUKE UNIVERSITY
Region: 1
City: DURHAM State: NC
County:
License #:
Agreement: Y
Docket:
NRC Notified By: NC DIV OF RADIATION PROTE
HQ OPS Officer: JOE O'HARA
Licensee: DUKE UNIVERSITY
Region: 1
City: DURHAM State: NC
County:
License #:
Agreement: Y
Docket:
NRC Notified By: NC DIV OF RADIATION PROTE
HQ OPS Officer: JOE O'HARA
Notification Date: 09/12/2006
Notification Time: 15:36 [ET]
Event Date: 09/11/2006
Event Time: 06:30 [EDT]
Last Update Date: 09/12/2006
Notification Time: 15:36 [ET]
Event Date: 09/11/2006
Event Time: 06:30 [EDT]
Last Update Date: 09/12/2006
Emergency Class: NON EMERGENCY
10 CFR Section:
10 CFR Section:
Person (Organization):
JAMES TRAPP (R1)
SCOTT FLANDERS (NMSS)
JAMES TRAPP (R1)
SCOTT FLANDERS (NMSS)
AGREEMENT STATE REPORT - FIRE IN A LABORATORY CONTAINING NUCLEAR MATERIALS
The State provided the following information via facsimile:
"Duke police reported a fire on the 2nd floor of the Nanaline Duke Building at 6:30 AM September 11, 2006. OESO-Radiation Safety Division On Call staff were notified by Duke Police and responded on scene shortly after 7 AM, along with representatives of other OESO Divisions. By 7:15 AM, the Fire Department had the fire out.
"Radiation Safety staff immediately obtained the inventory of the Principal Investigator whose lab the fire damaged, verifying the lab's current holdings at less than 0.8 mCi S-35, 0.6 mCi P-32, and 0.005 mCi I-125. All of these amounts are below the ingestion and inhalation ALIs , and would have presented no real health risk even if ingested in their entirety. In the unlikely event that these radioactive materials were to be involved in the fire and dispersed, atmospheric dilution would reduce the hazard to zero outside the building.
"Radiation Safety staff surveyed the firefighter's gloves and boot soles as they exited the building. These surveys indicated no evidence of any radioactive contamination. Radiation survey staff surveyed the burnt lab area later that morning, again finding no indication of contamination. Radiation Safety staff also verified that the research radioactive materials had not breached their containment (dry waste containers in a room adjacent to the fire damaged lab and stock solutions in a sealed freezer in the lab). These actions and observations provide concrete assurance that this fire presented no radiation exposure to the emergency responders, Duke employees, the public, or the environment, and none of the material was lost or dispersed."
The licensee informed Region I Duncan White.
The State provided the following information via facsimile:
"Duke police reported a fire on the 2nd floor of the Nanaline Duke Building at 6:30 AM September 11, 2006. OESO-Radiation Safety Division On Call staff were notified by Duke Police and responded on scene shortly after 7 AM, along with representatives of other OESO Divisions. By 7:15 AM, the Fire Department had the fire out.
"Radiation Safety staff immediately obtained the inventory of the Principal Investigator whose lab the fire damaged, verifying the lab's current holdings at less than 0.8 mCi S-35, 0.6 mCi P-32, and 0.005 mCi I-125. All of these amounts are below the ingestion and inhalation ALIs , and would have presented no real health risk even if ingested in their entirety. In the unlikely event that these radioactive materials were to be involved in the fire and dispersed, atmospheric dilution would reduce the hazard to zero outside the building.
"Radiation Safety staff surveyed the firefighter's gloves and boot soles as they exited the building. These surveys indicated no evidence of any radioactive contamination. Radiation survey staff surveyed the burnt lab area later that morning, again finding no indication of contamination. Radiation Safety staff also verified that the research radioactive materials had not breached their containment (dry waste containers in a room adjacent to the fire damaged lab and stock solutions in a sealed freezer in the lab). These actions and observations provide concrete assurance that this fire presented no radiation exposure to the emergency responders, Duke employees, the public, or the environment, and none of the material was lost or dispersed."
The licensee informed Region I Duncan White.