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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: Sun, 04-10-2020
ERF description: On Octuber 3, 2020, at approximately 9:00 UTC, the CNSNS received a notification about the theft of a radiography camera (model SPEC 150) near to Texcoco town, State of Mexico. This camera was stolen with the vehicle along the Calpulalpan-Texcoco road (Km 59) when the radiographer was driving and was forced to pull over by criminals.
The SPEC 150 camera serial number is 2096 and contains a category 2 radioactive source of Iridium-192 with an activity of 2.57 TBq.
On October 3, 2020, at approximately 00:00 UTC, the CNSNS was notified by the Civil Protection Authorities that the SPEC 150 camera was found at kilometer 50 Calpulalpan-Texcoco road. At 03:00 UTC the Licensee notified the CNSNS that the camera was in good condition and the Iridium radioactive source was in a shielded position.
ERF rating date: 03-10-2020
ERF contact person: Victor Gonzalez
ERF address: Reported by Comision Nacional de Seguridad Nuclear y Salvaguardias of Mexico on 03 Oct 2020. Last update on 04 Oct 2020
ERF affiliation: Comision Nacional de Seguridad Nuclear y Salvaguardias

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