PITTSBURGH —Police and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection are searching for a missing portable gauge that contains sealed radioactive material.
DEP says in a Tuesday release that the device isn't a hazard as long as it is not tampered with or damaged.
The Troxler gauge belongs to Pittsburgh-based Solar Testing of Pennsylvania. It was last used on June 27 in the Mount Lebanon area, and the company is offering a $500 reward for information leading to its recovery. DEP investigators are inspecting the facility where it is usually stored and interviewing management and employees.
The gauge is yellow and about the size of a shoe box, with an electronic keypad and a metal rod extending from the top surface. It contains radioactive cesium-137 and americium-241.
Read more: http://www.wtae.com/news/dep-police-search-for-missing-nuclear-gauge-last-used-in-mt-lebanon/26750208#ixzz36FtM4qQ0
DEP says in a Tuesday release that the device isn't a hazard as long as it is not tampered with or damaged.
The Troxler gauge belongs to Pittsburgh-based Solar Testing of Pennsylvania. It was last used on June 27 in the Mount Lebanon area, and the company is offering a $500 reward for information leading to its recovery. DEP investigators are inspecting the facility where it is usually stored and interviewing management and employees.
The gauge is yellow and about the size of a shoe box, with an electronic keypad and a metal rod extending from the top surface. It contains radioactive cesium-137 and americium-241.
Read more: http://www.wtae.com/news/dep-police-search-for-missing-nuclear-gauge-last-used-in-mt-lebanon/26750208#ixzz36FtM4qQ0
14 comments:
Thank you for posting this, Elaine.
Aside from concerns about this missing nuclear gauge, does anyone know why it was being used in Mt Lebanon?
On the bright side, at least the police and DEP take environmental health seriously. Here they are working to prevent exposures to radium or cesium...
Way to go, Lebo. Once again making the news because of something stupid. So did this radioactive device have "Say No to Turf" painted on the side? I'm guessing that's why it's missing.
Maybe the searchers need to go down to PW yard and see if they come up with it in the junk down there. Who knows what kind of goodies they may find down along the stretch of Cedar.
Maybe Gateway has it...
Maybe the DEP should file a RTK.
I understand that Mt. Lebanon is having a difficult time obtaining the material safety data information from the four bidders. Commissioners will only have hours to read the information before awarding the bids on Tuesday. Probably the only one who will be doing any homework will be Kelly. I'm sure the other commissioners already have their minds made up.
Could explain the missing gauge. Yeah, check with Gateway.
Elaine
So the public won't have a chance to review the material?
Nope.
Elaine
Stay classy, Lebo. We have become a joke. Officially this community is a punchline everywhere else. Net time you see the commissioners, be sure to thank them. Takes a lot of effort to take a community once regarded as one of the top neighborhoods in the state and knock it down to absolute mediocrity.
See what happens when you elect a commissioner who can't say no to a five year old and employs a recreation director who adds expensive alt-adds to swimming pool construction.
P. S. If I had donated to this fund raising, I wouldn't want my name posted on a billboard for everyone to remember.
I thought they werent doing the monument to greatness? But that brings up an interesting point. Since there has been a sloppy and legally questionable co-mingling of private and public funds, we are all entitled to the list of donors, correct? Wait, wait, let me guess--we'll have to file a RTK to find out. If I had given money for a sports project and was proud of my decision, I wouldnt mind my name being public information.
Elaine is the full $250,000 in the bank? Shouldn't the commissioners prove that it is before awarding the bids as they have said all along?
You would think they should prove they have the cash in hand. For kicks, look back in the archives to see what happened with the YSA and their Joint Maintenance Agreement with Timmy and Jan. We got different numbers all the time. The same group stopped filing 990's. Soccer committed to $125,000 in a DCNR grant application to buy McNeilly. That never happened either. We are dealing with thugs.
Elaine
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