ML19247B893
| ML19247B893 | |
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| Site: | Trojan File:Portland General Electric icon.png |
| Issue date: | 08/10/1979 |
| From: | Engelken R NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION V) |
| To: | Goodwin C PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. |
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| NUDOCS 7908170036 | |
| Download: ML19247B893 (1) | |
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Attention: Mr. Charles Goodwin Assist' ant Vice President Gentlemen:
Enclosed is IE Bulletin Go. 79-19 which requires action by you with regard to your reactor facility (ies) with an operating license.
Should you have questions regarding this Bulletin or the actions required of you, please contact this office.
Sincerely,
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Enclosures:
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List of Bulletins Issued in Last Six Moaths cc w/ enclosure:
B. Withers, PGE F. Gaidos, PGE 1
620233 7908170 0 3 6
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7908070515 SSItlS No:
6820 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMitISSION OFFICE OF IfiSPECTI0tl AND ENFORCEMEflT WASHItiGTON, D.C.
20555 August 10, 1979 IE Bulletin No. 79-19 PACKAGItiG OF LOW-LEVEL RADI0 ACTIVE WASTE FOR TRANSPORT AND BURIAL Description of Circumstances:
Low-level radioactive waste is that waste which can be transferred 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 Hendrie of the serious and repeated disrecard for rules coverning 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 conbustible waste is believed to have caused a fire and destruction of a truck at the Beatty, Nevada burial facility on May le,1979.
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 fievade 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. 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 fron reactor, nedical, industrial and military facilities.
On June 28, 1979, the Federal Highway Administration issued a Notice of Violation to a reactor facility proopsing.a $10,000 fine for truck contamina-tion resulting from improper closu' l ^ ^"' ^'
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