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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: Fri, 07-08-2015
ERF description: On April 14th 2015, the National Commission on Nuclear Safety and Safeguards received a report about the theft of a vehicle transporting a radioactive source. This had occurred in the municipality of Cardenas, in the State of Tabasco, Mexico. The stolen source was Ir-92 with an activity of 32 Ci. The source category is 2.

On April 22nd 2015, due to the information given by an anonymous phone call to the State Police, the container with the radioactive source was located and recovered. Later on the Mexican regulatory staff confirmed that the physical integrity of the container with the source was intact.
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ERF rating date: 07-08-2015
ERF contact person: Victor Gonzalez
ERF address: Reported by Comision Nacional de Seguridad Nuclear y Salvaguardias of Mexico on 07 Aug 2015. Last update on 07 Aug 2015
ERF affiliation: Comision Nacional de Seguridad Nuclear y Salvaguardias

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