Rep Org: QUEENS MEDICAL CENTER
Licensee: QUEENS MEDICAL CENTER
Region: 4
City: HONOLULU State: HI
County:
License #: 531653302
Agreement: N
Docket:
NRC Notified By: SCOTT DUPE
HQ OPS Officer: CHAUNCEY GOULD
Person (Organization):
WILLIAM JONES (R4)
ROBERTO TORRES (NMSS)
Event Text
REPORTED LOSS OF NINE IMPLANTED I-125 SEEDS
The licensee reported that 9 out of 156 I-125 seeds are unaccounted for following an autopsy performed on the recipient of an implant. The implant recipient was a dolphin which received the seeds on 08/16/03 and it died 11/02/03 and an autopsy was performed 11/04/03. The seeds probably came out of the dolphin where it was kept in a tank and washed into the harbor.