ML19247B897
| ML19247B897 | |
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| Site: | 05000113 |
| Issue date: | 08/10/1979 |
| From: | Engelken R NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION V) |
| To: | Seale R ARIZONA, UNIV. OF, TUCSON, AZ |
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| NUDOCS 7908170044 | |
| Download: ML19247B897 (1) | |
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'My sutir m. mu;ui car i K PL A7 A v, Au;uT cat e x. cat ironm A wm August 10, 1979 Docket tio. 50-113 University of Arizona College of Engineering Tucson, Arizona 85:'21 Attention:
Dr. Robert L. Scale, Head t'uclear Reactor Laboratory 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.
Sincerely,
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R. H. 'Engelken
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Enclosures:
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IE Bulletin fio. 79-19 2.
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20555 August 10, 1979 IE Bulletin flo. 79-19 PACKAGIfiG 0F LOW-LEVEL RADI0 ACTIVE WASTE FOR TRAfiSPORT Af1D BURIAL Description of Circumstances:
Low-level radioactive waste is tnat waste which can be transferred and shipr,ed 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 f!RC 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, fievada 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 inoro
'c salt (evaporator concentrates solidified with urea formaldehyde) from o
-- facility. The Governcr of the State 01 Nevada ordered the drums to be i
a 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 leachinq 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, medical, industrial and military facilities.
620'224 On June 28, 1979, the Federa~
,y Administration issued a Notice af Violation to a reactor facilit3
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