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Uranium Missing From New Jersey Lab
Apr 19, 2005 3:43 pm US/Eastern
(1010 WINS) (TEANECK, N.J.) The Nuclear Regulatory Commission was investigating why a small amount of enriched uranium powder was missing from a Teaneck laboratory.
The laboratory, LeDoux & Co., reported 3.3 grams of powdered uranium and aluminum missing last Wednesday, according to the commission.
Investigators believe the powder was thrown in the trash and is probably in a landfill in Pennsylvania or New York.
An NRC spokesman said Tuesday that the amount of radioactive material is too small to harm anyone or to make a so-called dirty bomb.
NRC spokesman Neil Sheehan said it is still important to make sure such material is tracked properly.
``Whenever this material is transported or stored at a facility there needs to be very tight controls in place,'' Sheehan said.
BWX Technologies of Lynchburg, Va., shipped the uranium in a tamper-safe canister to LeDoux in late March and received verbal confirmation from the lab that the material was received.
LeDoux realized the canister was missing last week and contacted the NRC the next day.
Sheehan said the NRC hasn't ruled out the possibility of some kind of fine or enforcement action against LeDoux.
NRC inspectors in the past have found only minor safety problems at the lab, Sheehan said.
The lab had its license suspended for 10 days in 1994 for failing to set up a $125,000 for future decommissioning of the Teaneck facility.
Ping
I know how that feels! One summer after highschool I was working construction and I accidentally threw away the forman's half eaten sandwich. A whole afternoon of lugging bricks.
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(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,