AGREEMENT STATE REPORT - STOLEN NUCLEAR DENSITY GAUGE
The following was received from the Pennsylvania Bureau of Radiation Protection (the Department) via email:
"On January 29, 2020, the licensee informed the Department that one of their vehicles, with a nuclear density gauge in the trunk, was stolen earlier that day. The licensee has filed a police report. The Department has been in contact with the licensee and will update this event as soon as more information is provided."
The gauge is a CPN International, Model MC-1 DR-P (Serial Number: M7077803), with a 10 mCi Cs-137 source and a 50 mCi Am-241/Be source.
PA Event Report ID No.: PA200002
* * * UPDATE ON 1/30/2020 AT 1346 EST FROM JOHN CHIPPO TO ANDREW WAUGH * * *
The following was received from the Pennsylvania Bureau of Radiation Protection (the Department) via email:
"At approximately 2250 EST on January 29, 2020 the licensee informed the Department the stolen car had been recovered with the gauge still padlocked in the trunk of the car and secured with a padlocked chain. The employee had started his car and then returned to his house to get his lunch, and the car was stolen during this time."
Notified R1DO (Henrion), NMSS Events (email), ILTAB (email), and CNSC (email).
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 |