ML19208C177
| ML19208C177 | |
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| Issue date: | 08/10/1979 |
| From: | James O'Reilly NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
| To: | ARMSTRONG, R.H. |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7909250086 | |
| Download: ML19208C177 (1) | |
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Enclosures:
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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 RADI0 ACTIVE WASTE FOR TR Description of Circumstances:
Low-level radioactive waste is that waste which can be transferred and d licenseu by to one of three vaste burial facilities which are located in an On July 10, the Agreement States of Nevada, South Carolina, and W f low-level serious and repeated disregard for rules governing the shipments o radioactive wastes to these burial facilities.
Examples of violations of Agreecent State, DOT and NRC rules follow:
Improperly packaged uranium fines igniting packaged liquid scintillat in combustiole waste is believed to have caused a fire and 14, 1979.
truck at the Beatty, Nevada burial facility on May On July 2, 1979, three of twelve steel containers shipped to the Beatt The material was facility were found to be leaking radioactive material.
described on the bill of lading as being a solid inorganic salt (evaporator l
The concentrates solidified with urea formaldehyde) from state and the burial facility was temporarily closed.
On July 30, the first shipment into the reopened Beatty facility co free liquid in " solid" material.
used at an insitu leaching process at a uranium cill.
observed during the Forty-three shipments with sixty-three deficiencies we. p The shipments State of South Carolina, at the Barnwell, S.C. burial facility.
were from reactor, medical, industrial and military facilities.
the Federal Highway Administration issued a Notice of Violation to a reactor facility proposing a $10,000 fine for truck contamina On June 28, 1979,
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