- - - - - - - - - -

February 1, 2006

* North Carolina - lost LKS Model 1214 Liquid Scintillation Counter (with 10 uCi radium-226 source)

December 28, 2005

* Wisconsin - 50 tritium exit signs (20-30 Ci each) presumed sent to landfill (Port Washington)

* DHL Express can't find 48 mCi gauge being shipped from Sioux Falls SD to Idaho Falls ID

April 16, 2005

* Enriched uranium missing from company; Possibly thrown in trash
Tom Baldwin, Gannett/Asbury Park Press (New Jersey)

Approximately 3.3 grams of enriched uranium, a uranium aluminum powder, is missing from Ledoux and Co. lab near the George Washington Bridge in Teaneck, New Jersey, according to NRC spokesperson Neil Sheehan. "The shipment from a factory in Virginia arrived March 30. The lab discovered on April 12 that this material was missing. They notified us the next day," Sheehan said. NRC dispatched investigators to the site. The amount involved compares in size to about one-tenth of a small paper clip, or one-tenth of an ounce. "The idea is the material may have been inadvertently disposed of in trash," Sheehan said. "The trash goes to a waste-transfer station. . . . From there to five different landfills, four in Pennsylvania and one in New York State." "The material is so small and the radioactive level is so low, it would not pose a hazard to public health. . . . We are continuing to get to the bottom of what happened," Sheehan said. "Our concern is that radioactive material in the post-9/11 environment is properly controlled," Sheehan said. He added later, "The concern is, this is material that is supposed to be tightly controlled, and it went to this laboratory, and now they cannot account for it."

October 21, 2004

* Florida - radioactive sources put under cushion of boss' chair; criminal investigation (Naples)

August 16, 2004

* California - receivers discarded package after removing first I-125 container; another (2.5 mCi) apparently now in landfill [San Juan Capistrano]

* California - moisture density gauge bounced out of truck, found and moved by someone, reported by yet another [Carlsbad CA]

* Colorado - tritium exit sign (25 Ci), thought to be stowed in 1996, now presumed to have been sent to landfill

* Texas - well logging source deflector worked as designed, now need to fish source out from bottom of well (Odessa TX)

June 2, 2004

* Florida - 48 mCi moisture density gauge chained to truck, stolen (Miami)

March 29, 2004

* Connecticut - 5 R/hr beta / 250 mR/hr gamma Sr-90 source found next to house in East Lyme

* Tritium beam splitter thought missing from National Guard tank last week, was there all the time

March 25, 2004

* Colorado - stolen gauge found intact and undamaged in Colorado Springs

March 22, 2004

* California - 17 mCi Sr-90 eye applicator source missing again (Loma Linda Med Ctr)

March 18, 2004

* Fed Ex missing I-131 shipment between Memphis and Miami (was 769 mCi when shipped a month ago)

March 15, 2004

* Pennsylvania - FBI HazMat van robbed; 10 mCi N-63 source (Trevose)

March 10, 2004

* Nebraska - 25 tritium exit signs missing from staiways; no clue (City of Holdrege)

* Nebraska - Old store demolished and removed without segregating any of 13 tritium exit signs (Omaha)

March 5, 2004

* Nevada - gauge stolen from pickup - 55 Mci (Reno)

March 3, 2004

* Virginia - Chantilly-based company fined $3,000 after moisture density gauge bounced out of pickup near Chesapeake, VA

* California - level gauge missing (100 mCi) from Del Monte plant (Terminal Island)

February 19, 2004

* Florida - troxler gauge stolen from truck; found next day, abandoned, in grocery store parking lot

* Maryland - 10mCi tritium suspected to have been buried with incinerator ash

* DHL - lost package 2.65 Ci tritium source en roue from Italy to St. Louis (Army)

February 18, 2004

* Florida - Troxler gauge found laying in a grocery store parking lot (Miami)

December 22, 2003

* Arizona - soil moisture guage stolen from pickup at lunch (Phoenix)

December 19, 2003

* Calif - Fed Ex can't find 2.1 Ci Xe-133 source which supposedly left Oakland Friday; shipment was from GE Vallecitos, bound for University of Alabama

* Nebraska - four tritium exit signs (1980s-vintage) apparently scrapped during renovations over the years (Novartis Consumer Health Inc., Lincoln NE)

December 12, 2003

* Philadelphia PA - hospital sent 1 mCi sulfur-35 vial to landfill

December 10, 2003

* Florida - Troxler gauge lost at highway worksite (Ft. Pierce)

December 9, 2003

* Louisiana - radiography camera missing from pickup truck between Pierre Port and Amelia

December 5, 2003

* Nevada - 137 mCi density gauge stolen from trailer in Henderson NV on Nov 17, anonymously turned in 9 days later

* Texas - Well logging sources (7.3 Ci) abandoned after becoming stuck in Valverde County oil well

* Calif - 5 of 8 tritium exit signs missing from building being constructed in Santa Clara

August 18, 2003

* Georgia - 30 mCi Am-241 Niton Analyzer stolen along with office equipment

August 7, 2003

* Florida - Chemical agent monitors missing (each with 15 mCi Ni-63 source) from MacDill AFB

July 31, 2003

* Washington - 15 mCi Ni-63 foil source missing from gas chromatography cell (STL Seattle, Tacoma WA)

July 25, 2003

* West Virginia - moisture density gauge stolen in break-in at work site

July 21, 2003

* Colorado - 100 uCi asphalt content oven stolen from construction site near Byers CO

* Texas - Haliburton - 4 of 1200 lab sources missing (from Sperry-Sun acquisition)

June 30, 2003 Michigan event report - Radioactive gauge stolen from work van parked at employee's home in Newport

June 27, 2003: New Mexico event report - Stolen gauge found a week later in a dumpster. Anonymous caller told police where it was

June 27, 2003: Virginia event report - 500 mCi gauge missing from Mavisdale plant, last seen in storage room in January