ML19249B263
| ML19249B263 | |
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| Issue date: | 08/10/1979 |
| From: | James O'Reilly NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
| To: | BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, WEYERS CAVE, VA |
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| NUDOCS 7909040205 | |
| Download: ML19249B263 (1) | |
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N t Y t.x T S CAVE VA 244e6 T.E Bulletin No. 74-19, which requires action by you vith regard Enclosed is to your NRC license.
Should you have questions regarding this Bu letin or the actions required of you, please contact this office.
Sincerely, B.
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Director
Enclosures:
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List of Bulletins Issued in Last Six Months 703C.iG 790904 02Ob a
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6820 LTITED ETATES hTCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND EhTORCEMENT WASHINGTON, D.C.
20555 August 10, 1979 IE Bulletin No. 79-19 PACKAGING OF LOW-LEVEL RADI0 ACTIVE WASTE FOR TRANSPORT AND BlIRIAL 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 disregard for rules governing the shipments of low-level radioactive wastes to these burial facilities.
Examples of violations of Agreement State, DOT and NRC rules f ollow:
Improperly packaged uranium fines igniting packaged liquid scintillat vials in combustible waste is believed to have caused a fire and destructic of a truck at the Beatty, Nevada burial facility on May 14, 1979.
On July 2, 1979, three of twelve steel coctsiners 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 (enporator concentrates solidified with urea formaldehyde) from a reactor facility. The Governor of the Str.te of Nevada ordered the drums to be shipped out cf 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, 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 cortamina-
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facilities which did not fully meet NRC, Entire document previously entered which were developed to protect the heal into system under:
Governors of the three States with licen ANO )9hWb7 o5G that if the situation is not rectified,
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