ML19209B320
| ML19209B320 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | 07000150, 07000152 |
| Issue date: | 08/10/1979 |
| From: | James Keppler NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
| To: | Redmond R OHIO STATE UNIV., COLUMBUS, OH |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7910090502 | |
| Download: ML19209B320 (1) | |
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AUS 101979 Docket No. 50-150 Ohio State University ATTN:
Dr. Robe.t F. Redmond Director Engineering Experiment Station 161 liitchcock Hall 2070 Neal Avenue Columbus, OH 43210 Centlemen:
Enclosed is IE Bulletin No. 79-19, which requires setion by you with regard to your reactor facility with an operating license.
Should you have any questions regarding this Bulletin or the actions required of you, please contact this office.
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gt. James G. Keppler 1
Director
Enclosures:
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List of Eulletins lesued in Last Six Months cc w/ encl:
Central Files Lirector, NRR/DPM Director, NRR/ DOR PDR NSIC TIC 1112 168 1910090f @
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6820 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT
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20555 August 10, 1979 IE Bulletin No. 79-19 PACKAGING OF LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE FOR TRANSPORT AND BURIAL Description of Circumstances:
Low-level radioactive waste is that waste which can be tran,sferred 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 thre: states notified NRC Chairman Hen,drie of the serious tad repeated disregard for rules governing the shipments of low-level radiorctive 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 truck at the Beatty, Nevada burial facility on May 14, 1979.
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On July 2, 1979, three of twelve steel containers shipped to the Beatty burial facility were found to be leaking radioactive material. The material was described on the bill of lading as being a solid inorganic salt (evaporator concentrates solidified with urea formaldehyde) from a reactor facility. The Governor of the State of Nevada ordered the drums to be shipped out of the state and the burial facility was temporarily closed.
An 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 Highway R$520istration issued a Notice of Violation to a reactor facility prop'~i(g a $10,000 fine for truck contamina-tion resulting from improper closgjNs ta SL-gallon drums of LSA material and.
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r Governors of the three States with that if the situation is not rectif would deny use of the three burial ANO No. of pages:
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