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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: Thu, 02-03-2017
ERF description: On January 23th, 2017 at approximately 16:30 hours (UTC-6) in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico, occurred the armed robbery of a vehicle that was transporting a CPN nuclear densimeter that contained the radioactive sources Cs-137 serial number 8961GQ and Am-241/Be serial number 9144NK.
On January 24th, 2017 at approximately 01:00 (UTC-6) The Local Civil Protection Agency of Ciudad Juárez Chihuahua reported that the vehicle had been found a few blocks away from where the robbery had ocurred. The Nuclear densimeter was inside its container and radiation levels of the device were normal.
There was no evidence that the vehicle and the nuclear densimeter had been tampered in any way. There was no risk to the public.
ERF rating date: 02-02-2017
ERF contact person: Victor Gonzalez
ERF address: Reported by Comision Nacional de Seguridad Nuclear y Salvaguardias of Mexico on 02 Mar 2017. Last update on 02 Mar 2017
ERF affiliation: Comision Nacional de Seguridad Nuclear y Salvaguardias

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