[ RadSafe ] Re: Radioactive Material Stolen While Man In DonutShop
Jim Blute
jblute at NITON.com
Thu Mar 10 22:32:10 CET 2005
Lawrence,
One thing they can do is contact the manufacturer of the device to have them keep an eye out for it. Usually the device has the manufacturers name and address and this sometimes leads to someone finding the device (side of road, dumpster, ebay, who knows)and contacting the manufacturer about it. I usually have a few devices that are flagged in our database because they have been reported stolen and the regulator (and or the licensee) calls us up to put us on the lookout.
I am not familiar with everything they do but this is one thing they can do. It does not seem to be standard operating procedure though because I sometimes do not hear from the regulator, only our customer. Our devices though (portable XRF devices) do not present as much of a concern when lost or stolen as do many other gauges and devices out there.
Jim Blute, CHP
Corporate Radiation Safety Officer
NITON LLC
900 Middlesex Turnpike, Bldg. #8
Billerica, MA 01821-3926 USA
Toll Free 1-800-875-1578
Tel: 978-670-7460
Fax: 978-670-7430
e-mail: jblute at niton.com
-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl]On
Behalf Of Boing, Lawrence E.
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 12:18 PM
To: John Jacobus; MOSHEK; Jose Julio Rozental; TConley at kdhe.state.ks.us;
radsafe at radlab.nl
Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] Re: Radioactive Material Stolen While Man In
DonutShop
Can anyone on Radsafe share or shed light on how (if any) law
enforcement or regulatory agencies agencies or both go about tracking
down such devices - hit the local pawn shops, visit scrap yards, what?
Thanks
Lawrence E. Boing
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 South Cass Avenue
Argonne, IL 60439
P-630.252.6729
F-630.252.7577
lboing at anl.gov
http://www.td.anl.gov/D&D/
http://www.orau.gov/ddsc/
-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On
Behalf Of John Jacobus
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 11:01 AM
To: MOSHEK; 'Jose Julio Rozental'; TConley at kdhe.state.ks.us;
radsafe at radlab.nl
Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] Re: Radioactive Material Stolen While Man In
DonutShop
Well, sometimes if they cannot steal the car, they will take what they
can, like the radio, stereo player, tools, moisture gauge, etc. It they
think it has value, they may take it. Obviously if something is chained
or locked down like a gauge or tool box, they will take it.
--- MOSHEK <MosheK at sviva.gov.il> wrote:
> Hello Group,
>
> In Israel we faced several theft incidents. Most of them were of
> moisture/density gauges and one of radiography source. There is a
> clear cut difference between intended theft of the gauge and the
> vehicle. When a moisture/density gauge was taken out of its casing in
> the car, and the car left untouched - definitely the gauge was the
> target. When a car containing a gauge was stolen, usually the car was
> the target.
> The problem is that you
> can not be sure about it unless the gauge was found/returned and the
> car not, which may be, or not, some time in the future.
> Meantime you have to
> assume that the source was the target and be ready to all possible
> scenarios.
>
> Moshe Keren
> Ministry of the Environment
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jose Julio Rozental
> [mailto:joseroze at netvision.net.il]
> Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 12:52 PM
> To: TConley at kdhe.state.ks.us; radsafe at radlab.nl
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Re: Radioactive Material Stolen While Man In
> DonutShop
>
>
> The main question is what you have appointed: "The violation here was
> that the driver left the truck running unattended and lost control of
> the ammo box when he went to the donut shop."
>
> Comment:
>
> There are users that every day transport radioactive materials in
> higher activity, as the case of industrial radiography.
> During my activities in
> Brazil I have registered two cases. In one of them the thief abandoned
> the equipment in one site and in the second he threw out the equipment
> in the River. Hopefully there was not damage to equipments and in both
> cases were applied penalties. This fact is used in training as
> example of high violation during transport, to emphasize the necessity
> of imperative request during transport to follow procedures. In
> Brazil also for such transport it is requested that a driver needs to
> have an assistant for emergencies situation.
>
>
>
> Jose Julio Rozental
>
> joseroze at netvision.net.il
>
> Israel
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <TConley at kdhe.state.ks.us>
> To: <radsafe at radlab.nl>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 6:46 PM
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Re: Radioactive Material Stolen While Man In
> Donut Shop
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > >Now someone pleeeeeeeease tell me what the hell a
> rad materials was doing
> > in an ammo box >in the first place? Think the
> driver kind of violated some
> > DOT Laws?
> >
> > Ammo boxes are an approved type A package and are
> frequently used to
> > transport nuclear medicine doses from a
> radiopharmacy to a client hospital
> > or clinic. This is a perfectly legitimate method
> to transport radioactive
> > material. You might also be interested to know
> that certain brief cases
> > are also commonly approved for transport too.
> >
> > The violation here was that the driver left the
> truck running unattended
> > and lost control of the ammo box when he went to
> the donut shop.
> >
> > Thomas A. Conley, RRPT, CHP
> > Section Chief, Radiation and Asbestos Control Kansas Department of
> > Health and Environment
> > Phone: (785) 296-1565
> > email: tconley at kdhe.state.ks.us
> >
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