IR 015000027/1980045
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| Site: | 015000027 |
| Issue date: | 04/24/1980 |
| From: | Book H, Decker T, Thomas R NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION V) |
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U. S. NUCLEAR RIClilATORY COMMISS10!!
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80-45 Report No.
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Docket Nc.
1500027 License No.
Safeguards Group
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Licensee:
i Tacility Name:
Nuclear Engineering Company Inspection at:
Beatty, Nevada
Inspection conducted:
February 25 - March 7, 1980 d
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V Tom Decker, NMSS/FC/ERSS ate Signed
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Approved b'y:
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H.E. Book, Chief, Fuel Facility and Materials D' ate signed
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Safety Branch Sur: nary:
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Inspection on February 25 - March 7, 1980 (Report No. 15000027/80-45)
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This inspection was conducted to observe radioactive waste shipments and packaging. Vehicle placarding, packaging conditions,and labels were observed. Radiation surveys were conducted and removable radioactive contamination samples were taken on 34 shipments. This composite report details 31 shipments which were found to be in compliance with DOT /NRC regulations. Three shipments were found with apparent items of noncompliance and are reported separately in Report No. 80-46. The State of Nevada representatives i
were on site two days each week. No containers were opened.
Results:
No items of noncompliance werd identified.
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Mr. Steve Carpenter, Site. Manager, NECO I
Mr. Brian Thayer, Site Assistant Manager, NECO
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Mr. Jim Cruickshank, Site RSO, NECO j
Mrs.
Pat.Thayer, Secretary, NECO
Background Information Thirty-four trucks arrived at the disposal site during the inspection.
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Before being entered onto the site, each vehicle was monitored for radiation with respect to the regulatory criteria, j
External-surf ace measurements and dose rate measurements at six feet from the trailers were made with a XETEX (G-M type) survey meter, NRC
No. 5780.
No readings exceeding DOT limits were noted. Removable contamination wipes of approximately 300 cm2 were taken on representative packages or spots on the trucks.
The wipes were counted on the
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Eberline Mini Scaler MS-2, NRC No. 6389.
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After each load was removed to the burial trench, the beds of each truck were surveyed with an appropriate survey instrument and additional wipes were taken and counted for removable contamination. Only one truck was shown to have removable contamination greater than several times background.
The trailer was successfully decontaminated and i
released from the site.
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Each load was observed as it was taken from the trucks and placed in
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the burial trench.
Evidence of mishandled (dented or other wise damaged)
packages and possible leaking packages were of particular concern.
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Licensee-Shipper:-
Tri-State La'undries l
Utica, New York
Shipment Inspected:
February 25, 1980 l
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Tri-State Motor Transit Company l
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No. 440017 l
Freight Bill:
Not noted
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Seven boxes and thirty-seven drums of radioactive LSA labeled material were shipped. Radiation survey of the vehicle showed a maximum j
dose rate of 25 mR/hr at the surface of the trailer and 2.5 mR/hr at
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6 feet. Selective wipes of the vehicle and drums disclosed no i
removable radioactivity.
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Licensee-Shipper:
Cooper Nuclear Station
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Brownville, Nebraska l
Shipment Inspected:
February 25, 1980
Carrier:
Tri-State Motor Transport i
Trailer:
No. 228146TS
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Freight Bill:
No. 334004 j
One cask containing fourteen drums of radioactive material was i
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shipped.
Selective wipes of the trailer and cask exterior were
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No items of noncompliance were identified.
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Licensee-Shipper:
Babcock & Wilcox Company
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Leechburg, Pennsylvania i
Shipment Inspected:
February 25, 1980 i
Carrier:
Tri-State Motor Transport
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Trailer:
No. 340795
Freight Bill:
No. 335341 The shipment contained seven wooden crates of plutonium contaminated
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general waste. Wipes were taken of the trailer and representative box. No removable contamination was discovered.
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4.. Licensee Shipper:
DORF Institute-Walter Reed Medical Center
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Silver Spring, Maryland Shipment Inspected:
February 26, 1980
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Carrier:
Tri-State Motor Transport
Trailer:
No. 440581 i
Freight Bill:
No. 333975
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Twenty-four drums and four wooden boxes of radioactive LSA material were included in this shipment.
Swipes of the trailer and drum revealed
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no removable contamination.
No items of noncompliance were identified.
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Licensee-Shipper:
Allied Chemical Corporation Metropolis, Illinois i
$hipment Inspected:
February 26, 1980 Carrier:
Tri-State Motor Transport Trailer:
No. 440545
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Freight Bill:
No. 335322
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Shipment of radioactive LSA drums and vehicle surveyed for removable
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contamination with negative results.
No items of noncompliance were identified.
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Licensee-Shipper:
DORF Institute, Walter Reed Medical Center Silver Spring, Maryland Shipment Inspected:
February 26, 1980 Carrier:
Tri-State Motor Transport Trailer:
No. 440697 Freight Bill:
No. 333976
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Twenty-three drums and four boxes of radioactive LSA material were included in the shipment.
Results of wipe surveys revealed no removable contamination.
No items of noncompliance were identified.
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Licensee-Shipper:
Jersey Central Power & Light Company Toms River,.New Jersey
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Shipment inspected:
February 26, 1980 Carrier:
Tri-State Motor Transport Trailer:
No. 340592 Freight Bill:
No. 335332 The shipment consisted of wooden boxes on a flatbed trailer.
No removable contamination was found from wipe survey.
No items of noncompliance were identified.
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Licensee-Shipper:
Duane Arnold Power Plant
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Palo, Iowa V
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Februa ry 26, 1980 l
Carrier:
Tri-State Motor Transport L
Trailer:
No. 232234 l
Freight Bill:
No. 333979
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The shipment consisted of two large wooden crates. Wipe surveys for removable contamination on either the trailer or boxes were negative.
No items of noncompliance were identified.
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Licensee-Shipper:
Cooper Nuclear Station
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Brownsville, Nebraska Shipment Inspected:
February 27, 1980 i
Carrier:
Tri-State Motor Transport Trailer:
No. 156901-Freight Bill:
No. 335330 Twenty-one drums and six crates of radioactive material were shipped in a wooden-sided trailer.
Surveys revealed no removable contamination.
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No items of noncompliance were identified.
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Licensee-Shipper:
General F.lectric Company Wilmington, North Carolina
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Shipment Inspected:
February 28, 1980 Carrier:
Tri-State Motor Transit Trailer:
No. 544115
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Freight Bill:
No. 335339
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The shipment contained forty boxes of LSA material contaminated with radioactive uranium dioxide.
Wipes revealed no removable contamination.
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Licensee-Shipper:
S. W. Shattuck Chemical Company Denver, Colorado
Shipment inspected:
February 28, 1980 Carrier:
Tri-State Motor Transit
Trailer:
No. 440325
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Freight Bill:
No. 335104 This trailer load of thirty-seven containers of depleted uranium was found to have been contaminated. Wipe surveys revealed removable contamination of about five times background. The trailer was successfully decontaminated by NECO personnel to less than twice background'and released from the
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site. No contamination limits were exceeded.
No items of noncompliance were identified.
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Licensee-Shipper:
Thomas Gray Associates,, Inc.
Orange, California Shipment inspected:
February 28, 1980 Carrier:
Thomas Gray Associates Trailer:
License No. 104G084 Calif.
Freight Bill:
Not given, shipper's number 016
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This shipment was comprized of sixty-eight drums of biological and industrial waste. Wipes revealed no evidence of removable contamination, i
No items of noncompliance were identified, j
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Licensee-Shipper:
AWC Inc.
Compton, California i
Shipment Inspected:
February 28, 1980 Carrier:
NASA Trailer:
R-200Z i
Freight Bill:
C-11
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One hundred five packages of radioactive LSA material were in this shipment.
No removable contamination was found.
Radiation survey of
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the vehicle showed a maximum of 2.5 mR/hr at the surface and less than
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1 mR/hr at 6 feet.
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No items of noncompliance were identified.
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14. Licensee-Shipper:
Allied Chemical Co.
Metropolis, Illinois Shipment Inspected:
February 29, 1980
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Tri-State Motor Transit Trailer:
No. 440629 Freight Bill:
No. 335324 The shipment consisted of sixty drums of radioactive LSA material.
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Radiation survey of the vehicle showed a maximum of 2.5 mR/hr at the surface and less than 1 mR/hr at 6 feet.
Swipes revealed no evidence
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of removable contamination.
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No items of noncompliance were identified.
Licensee-Shipper:
General Electric Company Wilmington, North Carolina Shipment Inspected:
February 29, 1980
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Carrier:
Tri-State Motor Transit Company Trailer:
No. 232244 Freight Bill:
No. 335340
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The shipment consisted of forty wooden boxes containing material contaminated with uranium dioxide.
Radiation surveys showed less than one mR/hr at the surface of the vehicle.
Wipes showed no evidence of
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No items of noncompliance were identified.
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16. Licensee-Shipper:
DC Cook Reactor
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Bridgeman, Michigan Shipment Inspected: March 3, 1980 Carrier:
Tri-State Motor Transit Trailer:
No. 232244 Freight Bill:
No. 333993
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The shipment consisted of two large boxes of radioactive material.
Radiation survey of the vehicle showed a maximum dose rate at the surface of 3.5 mR/hr and lets than 1 mR/hr at 6 feet from the surface.
No removal contamination was found from wipe survey.
No items of noncompliance were identified.
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DC Cook Power Plant
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Shipment Inspected:
March 3,1980 Carrier:
Tri-State Motor Transit
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Trailer:
No. 232105 Freight Bill:
No. 333991 The shipment consisted of two large boxes containing spent fuel racks.
Radiation surveys of the vehicle showed a maximum dose rate of 2 mR/hr
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Wipe tests revealed no removable contamination.
No items of noncompliance were identified.
18, Licensee-Shipper:
Cooper Nuclear Station Brownsville, Nebraska Shipment Inspected:
March 3, 1980 Carrier:
Tri-State Motor Transit Trailer:
No. 228146 Freight Bill:
No. 335681
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The shipment consisted of a cask containing fourteen drums of radioactive
material.
Radiation survey of the outside of the cask showed a maximum dose rate of one mR/hr at the surface and less than 1 mR/hr at 6 feet.
Wipe samples showed no renovable contamination.
No items of noncompliance were identified.
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Licensee-Shipper:
DC Cook Power Plant Bridgeman, Michigan
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Shipment inspected: March 3,1980
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Carrier:
Tri-State Motor Transit V
Trailer:
No. 331078 Freight Bill:
No. 2-000152 l
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The shipment consisted of two large wooden boxes of radioactive LSA
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material.
Radiation survey of the vehicle showed a maximum dose rate L
of 4 mR/hr at the surface and 1.5 mR/hr at 6 feet.
Wipe samples
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showed no removable contamination.
No items of noncompliance were identified.
20. Licensee-Shipper:
Combustion Engineering Co.
Hematite, Missouri Shipment Inspected: March 3,1980 Carrier:
Tri-State Motor Transit Trailer:
No. 440440 Freight Bill:
No. 335355
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The shipment consisted of sixty-nine drums and seven boxes of radioactive material.
Radiation-survey of the vehicle showed a dose rate of less than 1 mR/hr at the surface. Wipes revealed no surface contamination.
No items of noncompliance were identified.
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21. Licensee-Shipper:
Allied Chemical Co.
Metropolis, Illinois
. Shipment Inspected: March 3,1980 Carrier:
Tri-State Motor Transit Trailer:
No. 440308 Freight Bill:
No. 335323 The shipment consisted of sixty drums of radioactive waste.
Radiation survey of the vehicle showed a maximum dose rate of 4 mR/hr at the surface and less than 1 mR/hr at 6 feet.
No removable contamination
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No items of noncompliance were identified.
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Licensee-Shipper:
Allied Chemical Co.
Metropolis, Illinois Shipment Inspected: March 3,1980 Carrier:
Tri-State Motor Transit Trailer:
No. 440322 Freight Bill:
No. 335325 The shipment consisted of sixty drums of radioactive waste.
Radiation survey of the vehicle showed a maximum dose rate of 4 mR/hr at the surface and less than 1 mR/hr at 6 feet.
No removable contamination was found on the trailer or representative drum.
No items of noncompliance were identified.
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Licensee-Shipper:
University of New Mexico
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Shipment inspected: March 3,1980 Carrier:
Delta Lines
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Trailer:
No. 42-2753 Freight Bill:
No. 4679202 r
The shipment consisted of seventy-two drums shipped in one unit of a three-trailer rig.
Radiation survey showed a maximum dose rate of less than 1 mR/hr at the surface. Wipe surveys showed no removable
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contamination on the trailer or representative drum.
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No items of noncompliance were identified.
Licensee-Shipper:
Commonwealth Edison (Quad Cities)
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Shipment Inspected: March 4,1980 Carrier:
Hitman Trailer:
No. 72231
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Freight Bill:
No. 1072
.This shipment consisted of a large rectangular cask containing eighteen drums of radioactive LSA material.
Radiation survey of the
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vehicle showed a maximum dose rate of 44 mR/hr at the surface of the shield and 5.5 mR/hr at 6 feet. Wipe surveys showed no evidence of removable contamination.
No items of noncompliance were identified.
25. Licensee-Shipper:
DC Cook NPP Bridgeman, Michigan
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Shipment Inspected: March 4,1980 Carrier:
liOME Transportation Company Trailer:
No. 331174 Freight Bill:
No. 2-000153 The shipment consisted of two large wooden boxes of radioactive LSA material.
Radiation survey of the vehicle showed a maximum dose rate at the surface of the boxes of 4 mR/hr and less than 1 mR/hr at 6 feet. Wipe surveys showed no evidence of removable contamination.
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Aladdin Industries Nashville, Tennessee Shipment Inspected:
March 4, 1980
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Carrier:
Wells Fargo Inc.
Trailer:
No. 59783 t
Freight Bill:
No. 27586 (Shippers No.)
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The shipment consisted of seventy-five drums of solid thorium.
Radiation surveys of the vehicle showed a neximum dose rate of less
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than 1 mR/hr at the surface.
No removable-contamination was found.
No items of noncompliance were identified.
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27, Licensee-Shipper:
Velsicol Chemical Corp.
I Chicago, Illinois Shipment inspected:
March 5, 1980 Carrier:
Velsicol Chemical Corp.
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No. T488 Freight Bill:
No. 3557-2 The shipment consisted of nine drums of radioactive LSA material.
Radiation surveys of the vehicle showed a maximum dose rate of less than 1 mR/hr at the surface.
No removable contamination was found.
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No items of noncompliance were identified.
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Mare Island Nava1' Shipyard Mare Island, California Shipment Inspected:
March 5,1980 Carrier:
Tri-State Motor Transit Trailer:
No. 228131 Freight Bill:
No. 335925 The shipnent consisted of a single container of radioactive waste
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shielded by a rectangular cask.
Radiation surveys of the vehicle showed a maximum dose rate of 11 mR/hr at the surface of the cask and 3 mR/hr at 6 feet.
Wipe surveys showed no removable contamination.
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No items of noncompliance were identified.
29. Licensee-Shipper:
Mare Island Naval Shipyard Mare Island, California
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Tri-State Motor Transit Trailer:
No. 228126
Freight Bill:
No. 335927
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The shipment consisted of a large cylinder containing radioactive material shielded by a cylindrical cask.
Radiation surveys showed
a maximum dose rate of 48 mR/hr at the surface of the cask and
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3.5 mR/hr at 6 feet. Wipe samples of the cask showed no removable i
contamination.
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No items of noncompliance were identified.
30. Licensee-Shipper:
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Shipment Inspected:
March 5. 1980
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Carrier:
Hitman Nuclear Corp.
Trailer:
No. 72234
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Freight Bill:
No. 33862 l
The shipment consisted of a cask and cask liner containing dewatered ion-exchange resins.
Radiation surveys showed a maximum
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dose rate of 30 mR/hr on the surface of the cask and 3.6 mR/hr at 6 feet. Wipes of the cask revealed no removable contamination.
No items of noncompliance were identified.
31, Licensee-Shipper:
Babcock and Wilcox Co.
l Leechburg. Pennsylvania
Shipment Inspected:
March 7. 1980 Carrier:
Tri-State Motor Transit Trailer:
No. 440720 t
Freight Bill:
No. 335721 P
The shipment consisted of seventy-eight drums of radioactive LSA-ma teri al.
Radiation surveys of the vehicle showed a maximum dose rate of 1.4 mR/hr at the surface and less than 1 mR/hr at 6 feet.
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