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Re: 31 workers over-exposed in Montana!!!
I've seen alot of lost source stuff from the antis. Here in Texas a
drilling source got lost a few months ago and it made the anti's press as
soon as it hit the papers. It was lost in a shaft (an "oops I dropped it"
event) and it didn't c ause too much panicking as some might expect
>Radsafers,
>
>Here is a NRC notice that the anti-nukers haven't gotten around to posting.
>Maybe they over looked it because it doesn't involve a nuclear power plant.
>In the Davis-Bessie and St. Lucie events it looks like the workers received
>a small amount of unplanned radiation dose. In the event below, a number of
>workers were exposed by a source that if left unfound could have delivered
>lethal doses... LETHAL. Where can you find these sources? In your
>neighborhood. In your neighbors driveway; in a truck; in the truck bed; in
>a box in the truck bed. A number of them are lost or stolen every month.
>Never makes the news, never shows up in the anti-nuke discussion boards. I
>guess that is the good radiation. I wonder if these lost sources were
>factored into the cancer studies performed around nuclear power plant.
>Whoops don't want to go there ;-)
>
>If you are interested in the number of lost sources just browse through the
>daily event reports at the NRC's web site. Just pick a month and review the
>events, you'll be shock at the number you'll find.
>
>http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/event/
>
>[------------------------------------------]
>No. IV-02-041
> September 26, 2002
>
>
>CONTACT: Breck Henderson
>
> Phone: 817-860-8128
>
>
>
>NRC SENDS AUGMENTED INSPECTION TEAM TO REVIEW CIRCUMSTANCES RELATED TO
>RADIATION EXPOSURES AT TEXAS FIRM'S JOB SITE IN
>MONTANA
>
>
>
>
>The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Region IV office in Arlington, Texas,
>is looking into circumstances associated with an apparent radiation
>over-exposure of 31 workers at a Texas company's temporary well drilling
>site near Havre, Montana, in May of this year.
>
>NRC officials said the radiation safety officer for Schlumberger Technology
>Corporation of Sugar Land, Texas, notified the agency on May 23 of the
>temporary loss
>of control of a radioactive well logging source containing 1.2 curies of
>Cesium-137. The company reported that a logging engineer failed to properly
>transfer the radioactive source from the well logging tool to its shielded
>transportation container following well logging operations at the Montana
>site on May 21. The source apparently fell from a handling tool onto the
>drilling rig floor where it remained unshielded until recovered by the
>company, some 48 hours later, on the evening of May 23. During that time,
>the
>portable rig was dismantled, moved to another drill site some five miles
>away, and reassembled.
>
>
>Radioactive well logging sources are used by drilling companies to measure
>the properties of rock and other materials where a well is being dug to help
>determine the presence of water, gas or oil.
>
>
>On August 30 the NRC was provided the results of tests which indicated that
>one of the exposed individuals may have received a higher exposure than
> originally estimated.
>
>The NRC Region IV office conducted a special reactive inspection on May 25
>and 26 and upgraded it to a special Augmented Inspection Team upon receipt
>of information on August 30 that the potential existed for several drill
>rig crew members to have received exposures greater than previously
>estimated. The AIT is
>reviewing the circumstances associated with the cause of the source being
>unshielded and unsecured.
>
>[-------------------------------------------]
>
>tony
>
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