ML19208C181
| ML19208C181 | |
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| Issue date: | 08/10/1979 |
| From: | James O'Reilly NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
| To: | SECURITY ENGINEERING, INC. |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7909250093 | |
| Download: ML19208C181 (1) | |
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- g UECURITY ENGINEERING INC, Ut.EM MU N S NC 27012 Enclosed is IE Bulletin Fo. 79-19, which requires action by you vith regard to your RBC license.
Should you have questions regarding this Bulletin or the actions required of you, please contact this office.
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Enclosures:
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6820 UNITED STATES hTCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMEhT WASHINGTON, D.C.
20555 August 10, 1979 IE Bulletin No. 79-19 PACKAGING OF LOW-LEVEL RADI0 ACTIVE WASTE FOR TRANSPORT AND BLT.I AL Description of Circumstances:
Low-level radioactive waste is + bat waste which can be transferred and shipped to one of three waste burial facilities which are located in and licensed by the Agreement States of Nevada, South Carolina, and Washington. On July 10, 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 wastes to these burial facilities.
Examples of violations of Agreement State, DOT and NRC rules fcllow:
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, 1979, three of twelve steel containers shipped to the Beatty burial The material was facility were found to be leaking radioactive material.
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 shipnents 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 Highway Administration issued a Notice of Violation to a reactor facility proposing a $10,000 fine for truck contamina-tion resulting from improper closures L 22ur a i'sel.,^lRA:<" " ""d_.%,m for improper loading of the drums on t DUPLICATE DOCUMENT These are a few examples of shipments Entire document previously entered facilities which did not fully meet NR into system uruler:
which were developed to protect the he Governors of the three States with lic 7 oFo705/f ANO that if the situation is not rectified would deny use of the three burial sit No. of pages:
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