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Event Report Forms (ERFs) are filed to the IAEA. Sometimes there are multiple event reports, updating the rating, the event description. Here you only see the latest event report

ERF send date: Mon, 29-01-2007
ERF description: An industrial ionizing radiation gauging device (IRGD/nucleonic density gauge) containing about 9.25 GBq Cs-137 source, used in a Coal Washery, was stolen on 16 November 2006. The overall weight of this IRGD is about 45 kg with lead shielding.
The IRGD could not be located despite an extensive search operation carried out using high sensitivity radiation survey instruments. It is expected that the source is inside the lead housing of the IRGD. The IRGD has adequate lead shielding with proper locking arrangement to prevent inadvertent removal of the radioactive source from the device by members of the public. As long as the radioactive source is inside the lead housing of the IRGD, it does not pose any significant radiological hazard to the members of the public, hence the event is considered to be insignificant from radiological safety point of view.
ERF rating date: 29-01-2007
ERF contact person: S.K.Chande
ERF address: Niyamak Bhavan, Anushaktinagar, Mumbai-400094, India
ERF affiliation: Atomic Energy Regulatory Board

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