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Event Notification Report for May 23, 2003




                    U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
                              Operations Center

                              Event Reports For
                           05/22/2003 - 05/23/2003

                              ** EVENT NUMBERS **

39868  39876  

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|General Information or Other                     |Event Number:   39868       |
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| REP ORG:  OK DEQ RAD MANAGEMENT                |NOTIFICATION DATE: 05/20/2003|
|LICENSEE:  OKLAHOMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   |NOTIFICATION TIME: 19:13[EDT]|
|    CITY:  OKLAHOMA CITY            REGION:  4  |EVENT DATE:        05/05/2003|
|  COUNTY:                            STATE:  OK |EVENT TIME:             [CDT]|
|LICENSE#:  OK-21035-01           AGREEMENT:  Y  |LAST UPDATE DATE:  05/20/2003|
|  DOCKET:                                       |+----------------------------+
|                                                |PERSON          ORGANIZATION |
|                                                |TROY PRUETT          R4      |
|                                                |JOHN HICKEY          NMSS    |
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| NRC NOTIFIED BY:  PAM BISHOP                   |                             |
|  HQ OPS OFFICER:  MIKE RIPLEY                  |                             |
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|EMERGENCY CLASS:          NON EMERGENCY         |                             |
|10 CFR SECTION:                                 |                             |
|NAGR                     AGREEMENT STATE        |                             |
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                                   EVENT TEXT                                   
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| AGREEMENT STATE REPORT - MEDICAL MISADMINISTRATION                           |
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| The licensee reported a medical misadministration involving High Dose Rate   |
| brachytherapy MammoSite treatment to a 70-year old female.  Upon             |
| administering the first of ten planned fractions it was noticed that the     |
| Ir-192 source did not reach the center of the balloon but was near the       |
| periphery 30 millimeters from the center.  The patient dose was reassessed   |
| and it was determined that the dose to the target area was less than planned |
| (56% of the planned dose).  The patient and the patient's physician were     |
| notified.  It has been determined that there were no adverse effects to the  |
| patient.  Corrective actions will address four factors contributing to the   |
| misadministration: wrong orientation of the patient during a CT scan; delays |
| in issuing the treatment plan due to a computer network failure;             |
| mis-communications regarding the specified treatment plan; and similarities  |
| between CT-based and radiographic-based printouts.                           |
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|Power Reactor                                    |Event Number:   39876       |
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| FACILITY: OYSTER CREEK             REGION:  1  |NOTIFICATION DATE: 05/22/2003|
|    UNIT:  [1] [] []                 STATE:  NJ |NOTIFICATION TIME: 12:32[EDT]|
|   RXTYPE: [1] GE-2                             |EVENT DATE:        05/22/2003|
+------------------------------------------------+EVENT TIME:        12:00[EDT]|
| NRC NOTIFIED BY:  F. CIGNAIK                   |LAST UPDATE DATE:  05/22/2003|
|  HQ OPS OFFICER:  JOHN MacKINNON               +-----------------------------+
+------------------------------------------------+PERSON          ORGANIZATION |
|EMERGENCY CLASS:          NON EMERGENCY         |ANTHONY DIMITRIADIS  R1      |
|10 CFR SECTION:                                 |MICHELE EVANS        IRO     |
|APRE 50.72(b)(2)(xi)     OFFSITE NOTIFICATION   |                             |
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|UNIT |SCRAM CODE|RX CRIT|INIT PWR|   INIT RX MODE  |CURR PWR|  CURR RX MODE   |
+-----+----------+-------+--------+-----------------+--------+-----------------+
|1     N          N       0        Refueling        |0        Refueling        |
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                                   EVENT TEXT                                   
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| WORK STOPPAGE BY IBEW LOCAL 1289 UNION.                                      |
|                                                                              |
| IBEW Local 1289 Union personnel implemented a work stoppage and started      |
| exiting the site at 1200 hours this date (05/22/03).  Required watch         |
| stations are being relieved by management personnel.                         |
|                                                                              |
| The NRC Resident Inspector was notified of this event by the licensee.       |
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