ML19247B896
| ML19247B896 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Reed College |
| Issue date: | 08/10/1979 |
| From: | Engelken R NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION V) |
| To: | Bragdon P REED COLLEGE, PORTLAND, OR |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7908170043 | |
| Download: ML19247B896 (1) | |
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August 10, 1979 Docket No. 50-288 Reed College Reed Reactor Facility Portland, Oregon 97202 Attention:
Paul Bragdon President 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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Enclosures:
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6820 UNITED STATES tlVCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEt1ENT WASHINGTON, D.C.
20555 August ?, 1979 IE Bulletin No. 79-19 PACKAGING 0F LOW-LEVEL RADI0ALTIVE WASTF FOR TRANSPORT AND BURIAL Description of Circumstances:
Low-level radioactive waste 4 that waste which can be transferred and shipped to one of three waste burial f acilities 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 Chaiman Hendrie of the serious and repeated disrecard for rules coverning the shipments of low-level radioactive wastes to these burial facilities.
Examples cf 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 naterial 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 Nevada ordered i.he drums to be shipped out of the state and the burial facility was temporarily c'r;ed.
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 nill.
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.
Da June PS,1979, the Federal Highway Ad Mstration issued a Notice of
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eviously entered These are a few examples of shipments into syste und facilities which did not fully meet N' which were developed to protect the h Ano 7 g g dj/[
Governors of the three States with li that if tne situation is not rectifie no, of Pages:
e would deny use of the three burial si
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