Event Notification Report for January 9, 2003
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Operations Center
Event Reports For
01/08/2003 - 01/09/2003
** EVENT NUMBERS **
39490 39495
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|General Information or Other |Event Number: 39490 |
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| REP ORG: ARIZONA RADIATION REGULATORY AGENCY |NOTIFICATION DATE: 01/06/2003|
|LICENSEE: CONSTRUCTION INSPECTION AND TESTING |NOTIFICATION TIME: 16:58[EST]|
| CITY: Tempe REGION: 4 |EVENT DATE: 01/06/2003|
| COUNTY: STATE: AZ |EVENT TIME: 16:00[MST]|
|LICENSE#: 7-98 AGREEMENT: Y |LAST UPDATE DATE: 01/06/2003|
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| |PERSON ORGANIZATION |
| |CHUCK CAIN R4 |
| |JOHN GREEVES NMSS |
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| NRC NOTIFIED BY: AUBREY V. GODWIN | |
| HQ OPS OFFICER: ARLON COSTA | |
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|EMERGENCY CLASS: NON EMERGENCY | |
|10 CFR SECTION: | |
|NAGR AGREEMENT STATE | |
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EVENT TEXT
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| AGREEMENT STATE REPORT - STOLEN MOISTURE DENSITY GAUGE |
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| "At approximately 7:30 AM, January 6, 2003, the Agency [Arizona Radiation |
| Regulatory Agency] received a voice mail message advising that a Troxler |
| Model 3440 device, Serial Number 30391, was missing from 4440 West Mountain |
| View Road, Glendale, AZ. The device contains 8 millicuries of Cesium-137 |
| and 40 millicuries of Americium-241:Berylium. The information supplied |
| indicated that there is [evidence] that the device was stolen. LICENSEE |
| believes the source disappeared between 2:00 AM and 6:00 AM January 3, 2003. |
| Agency investigation indicates [that] the lock was cut and the device |
| removed from the shipping case. Glendale Police Department is also |
| investigating this event, report number 03-972. |
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| "The LICENSEE and the Agency continue to investigate this event. |
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| "The States of CA, CO, NV, NM, and UT and U.S. NRC and the U.S. FBI are |
| being notified of this event. Mexico is also being informed of this event." |
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|Power Reactor |Event Number: 39495 |
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| FACILITY: SOUTH TEXAS REGION: 4 |NOTIFICATION DATE: 01/08/2003|
| UNIT: [1] [2] [] STATE: TX |NOTIFICATION TIME: 11:23[EST]|
| RXTYPE: [1] W-4-LP,[2] W-4-LP |EVENT DATE: 01/08/2003|
+------------------------------------------------+EVENT TIME: 04:00[CST]|
| NRC NOTIFIED BY: GREG JANAK |LAST UPDATE DATE: 01/08/2003|
| HQ OPS OFFICER: JASON FLEMMING +-----------------------------+
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|EMERGENCY CLASS: NON EMERGENCY |CHUCK CAIN R4 |
|10 CFR SECTION: | |
|ACOM 50.72(b)(3)(xiii) LOSS COMM/ASMT/RESPONSE| |
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|UNIT |SCRAM CODE|RX CRIT|INIT PWR| INIT RX MODE |CURR PWR| CURR RX MODE |
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|1 N Y 100 Power Operation |100 Power Operation |
|2 N Y 100 Power Operation |100 Power Operation |
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EVENT TEXT
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| LOSS OF ENS AND OFFSITE COMMUNICATION |
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| "At 04:00 on 01/08/03, normal offsite communications were lost. This |
| included normal telephone lines, ring down lines to State and County |
| officials, and the ENS line to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. |
| Communications were still available with the STP Coordinator via the ring |
| down line and the 800 MHz radio. Also had communications established with |
| offsite personnel via a satellite phone and cellular phones. Communications |
| with Emergency Response Organization personnel was still available through |
| backup notification instructions. |
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| "Normal communications were restored at 07:10 on 01/08/03. |
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| "This is being reported under 10 CFR 50.72(b)(3)(xiii). |
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| "The cause of this event was due to the tripping of a breaker that supplies |
| power to our offsite communications equipment. This equipment has a battery |
| backup and the battery supplied power to the communications equipment until |
| it lost it's energy." |
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| NRC Resident inspector notified. |
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