ML19225A947
| ML19225A947 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | 07000938 |
| Issue date: | 04/13/1979 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
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| References | |
| 70-0937-79-01, 70-937-79-1, NUDOCS 7907230118 | |
| Download: ML19225A947 (2) | |
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APPEi! DIX A il0TICE OF VIOLATI0il Massachusetts Institute of Technology Docket flo.70-938 Based on the results of an f!RC inspection conducted on March 13-15, 1979, it appears that certain of your activities were not conducted in full compliance with your facility licenses and ilRC regulations as indicated below.
Items A and B are infraction, Items C and D are deficiencies.
A.
10 CFR 20.203 " Caution signs, labels, signals and controls" requires iq Paragraph (c)(1) "High radiation areas" that each high radiation area shall be conspictously posted with a sign or signs bearing the r.idiation caution symbol and the words:
Cautien - High Radiation Area.
10 CFR 20.202(b)(3) defines i high radiation area as any area, accessible to personnel, in which there exists radiation or ginating in whole or in part within licensed material at such levels that a major portion of the body could receive in any one hour a dose in excess of 100 millirem.
Contrary to the above, on March 14, 1979, a location in the Waste Storage Area, located within the controlled access area of the facility. which contained radioactive material with a measured radiation level of about 120-130 mr/hr, at gonad height, was not conspicuously posted with a sign bearing the radiation symbol and the words:
" Caution - High Radiation Area." This condition existed for about 10 days prior to t' arch 14, 1979.
B.
10 CFR 71.54(i) " Routine determinations" requires that prior to each use of a package for shipment of licensed material, the licen-see shall ascertain that... the package has been loaded and closed in accordance with written procedures.
Contrary to the above, as of March 15, 1979, the licensee did not ascertain that the packages had been loaded and closed in accord-ance with written procedures in that the licensee had not written procedures for the loading and closing of packages containing licensed soecial nuclear material.
C.
10 CFR 21.21(a) "iiotification of failure to comply or cxistence of a defect: requires that "Each individual, corporation, partnership or other entity subject to the regulations in this part shall adopt appropriate procedures to (1) provide for (i) evaluating deviations eggp723O\\\\%
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or (ii) informing the licensee or purchaser of the deviation in order that the licensee or purchaser may cause the deviation to be evaluated unless the deviation has been corrected; and (2) assure that a director or responsible officer is informed if the construction or operation of a facility, or activity, or a basic component supplied for such facility or activity; (i) fails to comply with the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, or any applicable rule, regulation, or license of the Commission relating to a substantial safety hazard, or (ii) contains a defect."
10 CFR 21.2 " Scope" states, in part, that:
"The regulations in this part apply..., to each individual... licensed pursuant to the regulations in this chapter to possess, use, and/or transfer within the United States source, byproduct, and/or special nuclear material.
Contrary to the above, on March 14, 1979, the licensee had not adopted appropriate procedures pursuant to 10 CFR Part 21, in that, the procedures adopted by the licensee specifically stated that "these procedures do not apply to the Institute's possession, use and/or transfer of byproduct, source or special nuclear material authorized by NRC pursuant to licenses other than Reactor License No. R-37" and no other appropriate procedures had been written.
D.
10 CFR 71.62(a)(10) states, in part, that:
"The licensee shall maintain for a period of two years after its generation a record of each shipment of fissile material... showing the results of the determinations required by Paragraph 71.54."
Contrary to the above, the licensee had not maintained for a period of two years a record of shipment of fissile material showing the results of the determinations required by Paragraph 71.54 for a shipment made on August T3,1977.
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