ML19249B272
| ML19249B272 | |
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| Issue date: | 08/10/1979 |
| From: | James O'Reilly NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
| To: | EMORY & HENRY COLLEGE, EMORY, VA |
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| NUDOCS 7909040217 | |
| Download: ML19249B272 (1) | |
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f MilH Y AND NENRY COLLEGE MukY VA 24327 Enclosed is IE Bulletin No. 79-19, which requires action by you with regard to your NBC license.
Should you have questions regardir4 this Bulletin or the actions required of you, please contact this office.
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Enclosures:
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6820 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY CCMMISSION OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT WASHINGTON, D.C.
20555 August 10, 1979 IE Bulletin No. 79-19 PACKAGING OF LOW-LEVEL RADI0 ACTIVE WASTE FOR TF ANSPORT AND BLTI AL 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
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Examples of violations of Agreement State, 40T and NRC rules follow:
Improperly packaged uranium 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 vete found to be leaking radioactive material.
The material 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 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 radic. active contents were sand filters used at an insitu leaching precess at a broaium mill.
Forty-three shipments with sixty-three deficiencies were observed during package inspection program between April 10 and July 5,1979, by the Agreer at 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-tion resulting from improper closures on jfggg-,307~ 4 q p"; 9' ^g g g.
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