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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, 28-09-2000
ERF description: On 19 September 2000, 15:23, the radiation detector at the entrance of JEWOMETAAL Stainless Processing b.v., at Botlek Rotterdam gave a high level radiation alarm when a container passed the detector. The container (AWSU494301-2) was loaded with stainless steel metal scrap in Egypt. One unshielded Cs-137 source was recovered during carefully unloading. The Cs-137 with an estimated activity of 1 GBq has been taken to a safe storage. The Cs-137 source is attached at one end of a stainless steel rod (length 15 cm, diameter 2 cm, approx.). At the other end of the rod is a flange with a diameter of approx. 4 cm.
The rest of the load of metal scrap proved to the free of radioactivity.


ERF rating date: 27-09-2000
ERF contact person: Mr. F.W. van Iddekinge
ERF address: P.O. Box BD 16191, NL-2500 BD The Hague, Netherlands
ERF affiliation: Ministry for Housing, Spatial, Planning and Environment (VROM), Nuclear Safety Dept.(KFD)

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