ML19209D198

Responds to IE Bulletin 79-19 Re Packaging & Disposal of Low Level Redwaste.Four Shipments,Containing 15.5 Ci Radwaste, Were Made from Jan 1978-June 1979

ML19209D198
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Site:	University of Missouri-Rolla
Issue date:	09/18/1979
From:	Tolan J MISSOURI, UNIV. OF, ROLLA, MO
To:	James Keppler NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III)
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ll SEP 201979 Radiation Safety Office UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI 413 Clark Hall Columbia, Missouri 65201

. Telephone: (314) 882-3721 September 18, 1979 Director, Region In Office of Inspection and Enforcement .,

U. S. Nt, clear Regulatory Commission 799 Roosevelt Road Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137 .

Dear Sir:

In response to the request contained in NRC IE Bulletin 79-19 for information, data and plans of action pertaining to the University of Missouri are presented below in the same order as given in the Bulletin. Separate submittals from the University of Missourt are to be fonvanled to cover operations conducted under licenses R-79 and R-103. For other operations conducted under NRC licenses, the following information applies:

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Each of five health physics offices maintains a set of NRC and DOT re-gulations.

2 Each health physics office maintains a set of collection contractoi require-ments.

3. Each health physics office staff member, heaPh physust and health physics technician, is designated as responsible for the safe transfer, packaging and transport of low-level radioac'.tve material. No other persons are so designated.

4. A " Handbook of Radiological Operations" contains the general instructions applicable throughout the University for personnel designated as responsible for the safe transfer, packaging and transport of low-level radioactive material. Instnictions specific to each office are generated as needed.

5. Health physics office staff members maintain an understanding of regulatory requirements by self-study and mutual assistance.

6. Employees who generate the wastes are instnicted in their obligations by the health physics office staff members receiving the wastes. Processing of the wastes is performed 'iy the health physics staff.

7. A regular audit of each of the five health physics offices is performed annually with waste m,nngement practices constituting a subelemmt of the audit.

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8. The next complete ruund of audits is scheduled to be completed within six months.

9. For 1978 and for the first six months of 1979, shipments of low-level radioactive wastes from all locations except the two reactor facilities have been as follows: ,

1. Four shipments were made totalin'g 136 ft'.

2. About 15.5 C1 were shipped consisting mainly of tritium with lesser quantities of C-14, P-32, and I-125 and with rainor quantities of other byproduct materials.

Small quantities of liriuid wastes shipped were " solidified" with 3.

vermiculite. .

Sincerely, J[hn H. Tolan Radiation Safety CIficer JHT/hlm

. cc: Office of Inspection and Enforcement U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Velma Blansett W. J. Fields, Jr.

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P. K. Lee, Ph.D.

O. L. Olson N. Toulfnnidis, Ph.D.

R. L. Carter, Ph.D.

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