ML19247B901
| ML19247B901 | |
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| Site: | 05000142 |
| Issue date: | 08/10/1979 |
| From: | Engelken R NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION V) |
| To: | Brown H CALIFORNIA, UNIV. OF, LOS ANGELES, CA |
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| NUDOCS 7908170050 | |
| Download: ML19247B901 (1) | |
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',cf W AL NUT CRE E K, CALIFORNI A 9696 SUIT E 202, WALNu r Cite E K PL A/ A 6g' August 10, 1979 Docket flo. 50-142 University of California at Los Angeles Los Angeles, California 900 4 Attention:
Dr. Harold Bro.n Campus Safety Officer Gentlemen:
Enclosed is IE Bulletin flo. 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, l d pt scG.
4 t R. H."Engelken
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IE Bulletin fio. 79-19 2.
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20555 August 10, 1979 IE Bulletin No. 79-19 PACKAGIf1G OF LOW-LEVEL RADI0 ACTIVE WASTE FOR TRANSPORT AND BURIAL
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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 Chairnan 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, DDT and NRC rules follow:
Improperly packaged urantun 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 Deatty facility contained free liquid in " solid" material.
Tne 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 Aly 5,1979, by the Agreenent State of South Carolina, at the Barnwell, S.C. burial facility. The shipments were from reactor, medical, 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--
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