ML19207C330
| ML19207C330 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Westinghouse |
| Issue date: | 08/10/1979 |
| From: | James O'Reilly NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
| To: | Damore M WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC COMPANY, DIV OF CBS CORP. |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7909110271 | |
| Download: ML19207C330 (1) | |
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o Act 101979 In Reply Refer To:
RII:JPO 70-1151 Westinghouse Electric Corporation Attn:
M. D' Amore, I!anager Columbia Plant Nuclear Puel Division Drawer "R" Columbia, South Carolina 29205 Gentlemen:
Enclosed is IE Bulletin No. 79-19, which requires action by you with regard to your IGC license.
Should you have questions regardirg this Bulletin or the actions required of you, please contact this office.
Sincerely, N
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Enclosures:
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7908070515 SSINS No: 6820 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGUI>TCP.Y COMMISSION OFFICE OF INSPECLON AND EhTORCEMENT WASHINGTON, D.C.
20555 August 10, 1979 IE Bulletin No. 79-19 PACKAGING OF LOW-LEVEL RADI0 ACTIVE WASTE FOR TRANSPORT AhT Description of Circumstances:
Low-level radioactive waste is that waste wnich cr.u be transferred and shipped to one of three waste burial facilities which are located in and licented by On July 10, the Agreement States of Nevada, South Carolina, and Washington.
1979, the Governors of the three states notified NRC Chairman Hendrie of the serious and repeated disregard for rules governing the shipments of low-level radioactive vastes 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 vaste is believed to have caused a fire and destruction of a 14, 1979.
truck at the Beatty, Nevada burial facility on May On July 2, 1979, three of twelve steel containers shipped to the Beatty burial The material was facility were found to be leaking radioactive caterial.
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 The shipments State of South Carolina, at the Barnwell, S.C. burial facility.
were from reactor, medical, industrial and military facilities.
the Federal Ti,;;;^M&^4m irwSWgt,m:_9{ _
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