ML19209B329
| ML19209B329 | |
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| Site: | University of Missouri-Rolla |
| Issue date: | 08/10/1979 |
| From: | James Keppler NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
| To: | Planje T MISSOURI, UNIV. OF, ROLLA, MO |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7910090512 | |
| Download: ML19209B329 (1) | |
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GLEN ELLYN, ILLINOIS 60137 AUG 101979 Docka No. 50-123 The Curators of the University of Missouri - Rolla ATTN:
Dr. T. J. Planje, Dean School of Mines and Metallurgy Rolla, MO 65401 Gentlemen:
Enclosed is 1E Bulletin No. 79-19, which requires action 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 thi, office.
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A ames G. Keppler Director Enclosures.
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7908070515 SSINS No: 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 RADI0 ACTIVE WASTE FOR TRANSPORT AND BUR'46 Description of Circumstances:
Low-level radioactive vaste 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 three states notified NRC Chairman Hen,drie of the cerious 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 follow:
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.
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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.
On July 30, the first shipment into the reopened Beatty facility contained free liquid in " solid" material. Tae 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 silitary 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 clo for improper loading of the drum 2
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