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Event Notification Report for November 07, 2019

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Operations Center

Event Reports For
11/6/2019 - 11/7/2019

** EVENT NUMBERS **

Agreement State	Event Number: 54357
Rep Org: MISSISSIPPI DIV OF RAD HEALTH Licensee: CARDINAL HEALTH Region: 4 City: JACKSON State: MS County: License #: MS-974-01 Agreement: Y Docket: NRC Notified By: JAYSON MOAK HQ OPS Officer: ANDREW WAUGH	Notification Date: 10/29/2019 Notification Time: 12:56 [ET] Event Date: 10/29/2019 Event Time: 03:15 [CDT] Last Update Date: 10/29/2019
Emergency Class: NON EMERGENCY 10 CFR Section: AGREEMENT STATE	Person (Organization): JOHN DIXON (R4DO) NMSS_EVENTS_NOTIFICATION (EMAIL) ILTAB (EMAIL)

This material event contains a "Category 3" level of radioactive material.

Event Text

AGREEMENT STATE REPORT - STOLEN SOURCES

The following information was received via email:

"Licensee called [the Mississippi Division of Radiological Health] to report a carjacking of one of its drivers carrying two packages of PET doses. The carjacking occurred at approximately 0315 CDT at a gas station in Jackson, MS. The local law enforcement was notified. The vehicle has still not been recovered."

Stolen sources were F-18. Source 1 had an activity of 6000.627 mCi at 0149 CDT and source 2 had an activity of 1694.932 mCi at 0151 CDT.

Incident Report No.: MS-190004

THIS MATERIAL EVENT CONTAINS A "CATEGORY 3" LEVEL OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL

Category 3 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 some hours. It could possibly - although it is unlikely - be fatal to be close to this amount of unshielded radioactive material for a period of days to weeks. These sources are typically used in practices such as fixed industrial gauges involving high activity sources (for example: level gauges, dredger gauges, conveyor gauges and spinning pipe gauges) and well logging. For additional information go to http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1227_web.pdf

Agreement State	Event Number: 54361
Rep Org: ARIZONA DEPT OF HEALTH SERVICES Licensee: GEOTECHNICAL TESTING AND INSPECTION Region: 4 City: SCOTTSDALE State: AZ County: License #: 07-425 Agreement: Y Docket: NRC Notified By: BRIAN GORETZKI HQ OPS Officer: ANDREW WAUGH	Notification Date: 10/29/2019 Notification Time: 14:39 [ET] Event Date: 10/29/2019 Event Time: 00:00 [MST] Last Update Date: 10/29/2019
Emergency Class: NON EMERGENCY 10 CFR Section: AGREEMENT STATE	Person (Organization): JOHN DIXON (R4DO) NMSS_EVENTS_NOTIFICATION (EMAIL) CNSNS (MEXICO) (EMAIL)

This material event contains a "Less than Cat 3" level of radioactive material.

Event Text

AGREEMENT STATE REPORT - STOLEN DENSITY GAUGE

The following report was received from the Arizona Department of Health Services (Department) via email:

"The Department received notification from the licensee that a Troxler 3411 nuclear density gauge (serial number 07083) was stolen from the back of a licensee's truck. The gauge contains approximately 8 mCi of Cs-137 and 40 mCi of Am-241. The Phoenix police department was notified at approximately 0730 MST [on 10/29/2019] and a police report was filed (Report Number 19-1879828). The Department has requested additional information and continues to investigate the event."

Arizona Incident Number: 19-026

THIS MATERIAL EVENT CONTAINS A "LESS THAN CAT 3" LEVEL OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL

Sources that are "Less than IAEA Category 3 sources," are either sources that are very unlikely to cause permanent injury to individuals or contain a very small amount of radioactive material that would not cause any permanent injury. Some of these sources, such as moisture density gauges or thickness gauges that are Category 4, the amount of unshielded radioactive material, if not safely managed or securely protected, could possibly - although it is unlikely - temporarily injure someone who handled it or were otherwise in contact with it, or who were close to it for a period of many weeks. For additional information go to http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1227_web.pdf

Power Reactor	Event Number: 54371
Facility: GRAND GULF Region: 4 State: MS Unit: [1] [] [] RX Type: [1] GE-6 NRC Notified By: RALPH FLICKINGER HQ OPS Officer: ANDREW WAUGH	Notification Date: 11/06/2019 Notification Time: 01:17 [ET] Event Date: 11/05/2019 Event Time: 18:11 [CST] Last Update Date: 11/06/2019
Emergency Class: NON EMERGENCY 10 CFR Section: 50.72(b)(3)(v)(D) - ACCIDENT MITIGATION	Person (Organization): JAMES DRAKE (R4DO)

Unit

SCRAM Code

RX Crit

Initial PWR

Initial RX Mode

Current PWR

Current RX Mode

100

Power Operation

100

Power Operation

Event Text

TWO DIESEL GENERATORS CONCURRENTLY INOPERABLE

"On November 5, 2019 at 1811 CST, station service water A and the Division 1 diesel generator (DG) were declared inoperable based on the results of an engineering evaluation of a Class 3 piping leak. This was determined to be a potential inability to fulfill a safety function due to concurrent inoperability of two emergency diesel generators. Division 3 DG was inoperable due to planned maintenance on November 4, 2019 at 0000 CST.

"This event is being reported an 8-hour non-emergency notification per 10 CFR 50.72 (b)(3)(v)(D) as an event or condition that could have prevented the fulfillment of a safety function (Accident Mitigation).

"Division 3 DG and high pressure core spray have been restored, and the fulfillment of the accident mitigation safety function has been restored.

"The NRC Senior Resident Inspector has been notified."

Part 21	Event Number: 54375
Rep Org: FRONEK ANCHOR/DARLING ENTERPRISES Licensee: FRONEK ANCHOR/DARLING ENTERPRISES Region: 1 City: LACONIA State: NH County: License #: Agreement: Y Docket: NRC Notified By: WALTER PASZUL HQ OPS Officer: HOWIE CROUCH	Notification Date: 11/06/2019 Notification Time: 21:07 [ET] Event Date: 11/06/2019 Event Time: 00:00 [EST] Last Update Date: 11/06/2019
Emergency Class: NON EMERGENCY 10 CFR Section: 21.21(a)(2) - INTERIM EVAL OF DEVIATION	Person (Organization): JOHN CHERUBINI (R1DO) ERIC MICHEL (R2DO) HIRONORI PETERSON (R3DO)

Event Text

PART 21 NOTIFICATION - DEGRADED SNUBBER HYDRAULIC FLUID

Below is a summary of a Part 21notification received from the vendor via facsimile:

The vendor, via a testing facility, identified another batch of contaminated hydraulic snubber fluid. The fluid batch number is 16DLVS852, manufactured on 4/17/16 by Momentive Performance Materials, Leverkusen, Germany.

Licensees that were supplied the contaminated fluid were identified as: Palisades, Pilgrim, Browns Ferry and Sequoyah.

Previous batches were identified under the Part 21 process by Lake Engineering Co. as follows:

Batch Number (followed by ADAMS Ascension Number)

AD965 - ML070180491 and ML070300154
ZJS1518 - ML19077A096, ML19136A044 and ML19199A034
11KLVS145 - ML18211A302, ML18295A199, ML19008A043 and ML19071A112
14ELVS145 - ML17128A465, ML17212A628, ML17313A471, ML17355A139 and ML19121A155

For further information, please contact:

Walter Paszul, PE
General / Engineering Manager
E-Mail: walter@fronekgrp.com
Phone No: ( 603) 528-1931
Fax No: ( 603) 528-6381

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