ML19209D129
| ML19209D129 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | 07001236 |
| Issue date: | 10/02/1979 |
| From: | Piccard R KALAMAZOO COLLEGE, KALAMAZOO, MI |
| To: | James Keppler NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
| References | |
| 21-13658-01, 21-13658-1, NUDOCS 7910190434 | |
| Download: ML19209D129 (2) | |
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['l ls KalamaZOO COLLece October 2, 1979 Director, Region III U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 799 Roosevelt Road Glen Ellyn, IL 60137
Dear People:
This is in response to IE Bulletin No. 79-19, from the Office of Inspection and Enforcement concerning low-level radioactive waste.
(If this was supposed to be sent to another address, please forward it.)
In accord with item 9 on page 3 of the Bulletin, I address thre3 specific questions concerning the eighteen months from January,1978 through June 1979, inclusive:
- 1. We made one Icw-level waste shipment, in May, 1979. The total, uncompressed.olume of material, including inert and radioactive material, was less than 0.5 cubic meter.
- 2. The total activity of low-level waste was less than 1 Curie, mostly 11-3 and C-14.
- 3. Liquid low-level waste was generated mostly in the form of vials used for liquid scintillation counting experiments. The liquid was Icft in the vials to reduce handling; the vials were placed in a steel drum with absorbant material. See the response from Western Michigan University fer more detail:
in accord with the most recent amendment to our NRC license (N. 2, 4/26/79), we take our waste to WMU to be included with their waste for disposal.
Pages two and three of the Bulletin include eight items on which we are to report a " plan of action and schedule." Ours is a small college: there are only two faculty members beside myself who have anything to do with radioactive waste. As Radiation Safety Officer it is my responsibility to take care of the low-level waste, among other things. Since I do the job myself, the concepts of
" management-approved detailed instructions," " training and periodic retraining,"
ana " management-controlled audit" simply do not apply here. This disposes of items four through eight. Specific responses to the first three items, on page 2, follow:
- 1. I have a copy of IE Information Notice No. 79-21 and the Review of DOT Regulations. With these as guides I will proceed during the next month to order the various publications needed to obt'ain an up-to-date set of the specified regulations.
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- 2. I will obtain copies of the necessary information from Dr. Imy Holt, Director of Radiation Safety Con.mittee at Western Michigan University. None of our waste i' in final packaged form until after it is at WMU; they are resy.nsible for making sure that it is properly packaged. We do of course have to tell them what it is we are turning over for disposal, so that they can deal with it properly.
- 3. is mentioned above, I am responsible for dealirg with our low-level radioactive waste.
I suggest that the entire NRC mailing list procedure would benefit from having material such asBulletin 79-19 addressed BY NAME to the Radiation Safety Officer as designated in the rost recent license amendment.
I am quite sure that several relevant mailings have not reached me; the Notice 79-21 that I have is a copy of the one sent to Dr. Holt at KMU; I did not receive one myself.
Several other mailings have been delayed in reaching me because of being addressed simply to "Kalamazoo College."
Sincerely yours, Richard D. Piccard, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor of Physics Radiation Safety Officer License No. 21-13658-01, as amended 4/26/79 RDP/mrs cc: Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Inspection and Enforcenent Division of Fuel Facility and Materials Safety Inspection Washington. D. C.
20555 Dr. Imy V. Holt College of Arts 6 Sciences Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI 49008 1174 018