The following report was received from the State of
Colorado via email:
Detail: Wibby Environmental sold the business to Phenova in 2010. Through a long process of trying to reach the company contact at Wibby, contact with Phenova was made in February of 2016. After several attempts to discover what occurred with the assets of Wibby Environmental, one device is being reported as lost/abandoned. According to Phenova they do not see the gas chromatograph as being on the asset sheet at the time of purchase.
It is unknown as to what Wibby Environmental did with the device or if the device was returned for disposal. Our office has received no records from manufactures including CJ Bruyn & Company, showing the Gas Chromatograph was returned.
Device information: Model # N610-0133 Source SN# 0767, NI-63, 15 mCi, Date shipped from CJ Bruyn 02-27-2004.
Event Description: Due to the length of time for discovery this case is closed.
Colorado Event Report ID No.: CO 17-0002
THIS MATERIAL EVENT CONTAINS A "LESS THAN CAT 3" LEVEL OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL
Sources that are "Less than
IAEA Category 3 sources," are either sources that are very unlikely to cause permanent injury to individuals or contain a very small amount of radioactive material that would not cause any permanent injury. Some of these sources, such as
moisture density gauges or thickness
gauges that are Category 4, the amount of unshielded radioactive material, if not safely managed or securely protected, could possibly - although it is unlikely - temporarily injure someone who handled it or were otherwise in contact with it, or who were close to it for a period of many weeks. For additional information go to
http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/Pub1227_web.pdf