ML19208C213
| ML19208C213 | |
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| Issue date: | 08/10/1979 |
| From: | James O'Reilly NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
| To: | EMVWEIT |
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| NUDOCS 7909250145 | |
| Download: ML19208C213 (1) | |
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TN 37901 EAUXVILLt 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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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 RADIOACTIVE WASTE FOR TRANSPORT 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 Governors of the three states notified NRC Chai 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 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 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 ef the state and the burial facility was temporarily closed.
On July 30, the first shipment into the reopened Beatty facility contained The radioactive contents were sand filters free liquid in " solid" material.
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 Agreemen The shipments State of South Carolina, at the Barnwell, S.C. burial facility.
were from reactor, medical, industrial and military facilities.
of the Federal Highway Administration issued a Noti On June 28, 1979, Violation to a reactor facility proposing a $10,000 fine for truck contamina-tion resulting from impr~ner closures on 55-gallon drums of LSA material and for improper loading oc
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These are a few examples of shipments of facilities which did not fully meet NRC, which were developed to protect the hea pntire doctunent previously ent*#*d nto system under:
Governors of the three States with lice that if the situation is not rectified,
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