ML19207C328
| ML19207C328 | |
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| Site: | 07001113 |
| Issue date: | 08/10/1979 |
| From: | James O'Reilly NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
| To: | Alkema R GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. |
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| NUDOCS 7909110266 | |
| Download: ML19207C328 (1) | |
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ATL ANTA, GEORGI A 30303 In Reply Refer To:
RII:JPO 70-1113 General Electric Ccx:ipany Attn:
Mr. R. J. Alkona, General Manager Wilmington Manufacturing Department P. O. Box 780 Wih:iington, North Carolina 28401 Gentlemen:
Enclosed is IE Bulletin No. 79-19, which requires action by you vith regard to your NRC license.
Should you have questions regarding this Bulletin or the actions required of you, please contact this office.
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6820 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT WASHINGTON, D.C.
20555 August 10, 1979 IE Bulletin No. 79-19 PACKAGING OF LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE FOR TRANSPORT AND BURIA Description of Circumstances:
Low-level radioactive waste is that waste which can be transferred and shipped to one of three waste burial facilities which are located in and licensed by On July 10, the Agreement States of Nevada, South Carolina, and Washington.
1979, the Goveroors of the three states notified NRC Chairman Hendrie of the serious and repeated disregard for rules governing the shipments of low-level radioactive wastes to these burial facilities.
Examples of violations of Agreement State, DOT and NRC rules follow:
Improperly packaged uranium fines igniting packaged liquid scintillation vials in combustible waste is believed to have caused a fire and destruction of a truck at the Beatty, Nevada burial facility on May 14, 1979.
On July 2, M79, three of twelve steel containers shipped to the Beatty burial facility wem found to be leaking radioactive material. The material was f
described on the bill of lading as being a solid inorganic salt (evaporatorThe concentrates solidified with urea formaldehyde) from a reactor facility.
Governor of the State of Nevada ordered the drums to be shipped out of the state and the burial facility was temporarily closed.
On July 30, the first shipment into the reopened Beatty facility contained free liquid in " solid" material.
The radioactive contents were sand filters used at an insitu leaching process at a uranium mill.
Forty-three shipments with sixty-three deficiencies were observed during the package inspection program between April 10 and July 5, 1979, by the Agreement State of South Carolina, at the Barnwell, S.C. burial facility. The shipments were from reactor, medical, industrial and military facilities.
On June 28, 1979, the Federal H=*%wgwArg pgd_a Notice of "GnNN Violation to a reactor facility tion resulting from improper el DUPLICATE DOCUMENT for improper loading of the dr vi usly entered nt sys em under These are a few examples of sh facilities which did not fully 7kQ) gQ{
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