ML19247B895
| ML19247B895 | |
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| Site: | 05000106, Oregon State University |
| Issue date: | 08/10/1979 |
| From: | Engelken R NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION V) |
| To: | Popovich M Oregon State University, CORVALLIS, OR |
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| NUDOCS 7908170041 | |
| Download: ML19247B895 (1) | |
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SUI T E 707. W ALNU T CREE K PL AZA gt WALNU T CH E E K, C Allf 0RNI A 9W!G August 10, 1979 Docket flos. 50-243 50-106 Oregon State University Radiation Center Corvallis, Oregon 97331 Attention:
M. Popovich, Vice President Ad:ninistra tion Gentlemen:
Enclosed is IE Bulletin No. 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.
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20555 August 10, 1979 IE Bulletin No. 79-19 PACKAGING 0F LOU-LEVEL RADI0 ACTIVE WASTE FOR TRANSPORT AND BURIAL Description of Circumstances:
Low-level radioactive waste is that waste which can be transferred und shipped to one of three waste burial facilities which are located in and licensed by the Agreenent States of Nevada, South Carolina, and Washington.
On July 10, 1979, the Governors of the three states notified NRC Chaiman Hendrie of the serious and repeated disreaard 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 uraniun 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.
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 inoraanic 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.
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 from reactor, nedical, industrial and military 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 resultinq from improper closures on P
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