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Event Notification Report for April 26, 2022

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Operations Center

EVENT REPORTS FOR
04/25/2022 - 04/26/2022

EVENT NUMBERS
55860
Agreement State
Event Number: 55860
Rep Org: WA Office of Radiation Protection
Licensee: ALS Environmental Labs
Region: 4
City: Everett   State: WA
County:
License #: R1299
Agreement: Y
Docket:
NRC Notified By: Jasmin Hernandez
HQ OPS Officer: Brian Parks
Notification Date: 04/26/2022
Notification Time: 18:35 [ET]
Event Date: 04/26/2022
Event Time: 13:23 [PDT]
Last Update Date: 04/26/2022
Emergency Class: Non Emergency
10 CFR Section:
Agreement State
Person (Organization):
Young, Cale (R4DO)
NMSS_Events_Notification, (EMAIL)
Event Text
EN Revision Imported Date: 4/27/2022

EN Revision Text: AGREEMENT STATE REPORT - LEAKING SEALED SOURCE

The following is a summary of an e-mail received from the Washington Office of Radiation Protection:

At 1323 PDT, Washington State received a report of two leaking electron capture detectors (ECD). The detectors failed leak testing and were removed from service. The licensee is working with the vendor on additional corrective actions. There was no spread of contamination and no overexposure.

The ECD contain Ni-63 sources (model number G2397A and G1223A / serial number U37921 and F5004) with an activity levels of 0.0144 microCuries and 0.009 microCuries.

Incident Number: WA-22-011