ML19249B289
| ML19249B289 | |
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| Issue date: | 08/10/1979 |
| From: | James O'Reilly NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
| To: | MARSHALL UNIV., HUNTINGTON, WV |
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| NUDOCS 7909040235 | |
| Download: ML19249B289 (1) | |
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MARSNALL UNIVERSITY DEPANTMENTS OF PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, NV 25701 HUNTINGTON Enclosed is IE Bulletin No. 79-19, which recquires action by 7 u vith regard to your NRC license.
Should you have questions regarding this Bulletin or the actions required of you, plee,e contact this office.
Sincerely, B
~31 N Q James P. O'Reilly Director
Enclosures:
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List of Bulletins Issued in Last Six Months "j[3C I' 7 000010 D J
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7908070515 SSINS No: 6820 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OFFICE OF INSPECTION AhT ENTORCEMENT WASHINGTON, D.C.
20555 August 10, 1979 IE Bulletin No. 79-19 PACKAGING OF LOW-LEVEL RADIDACTIVE VASTE FOR TRANSPORT AhT BURIAL Lescriotion of Circumstances:
Low-level radicactive waste is that waste which can br transferred and shipped to one of tb.ee waste burial facilities which are located in and licensed by On July 10, the Agreer.ent States of Nevada, South Carolina, and Washington.
1979; i.he Governors of the three states notified NRC Chairman Hendrie of the r,erious 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 follow:
Improperly packaged uranium fines igniting packaged liquid scintillation vials in combustible waste is believed to have caused a fire and destruction of a 14, 1979.
truck at the Beatty, Nevada burial facility on May On July 2, 1979, three of twelve steel containers shipped to the Beatty burial The material was facility were found to be leaking radioactive material.
described on the bill of lading as being a solid inorganic salt (evaporatorThe concentrates solidified with urea formaldehyde) from a reactor facility.
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 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 The shipments State of South Carolina, at the Barnwell, S.C. burial facility.
were from reactor, medical, industrial and military facilities.
the Federal Highway Administration issued a Notice of On June 28, 1979, Violation to a reactor facility nroposing a $10,000 fine for truck contamina-e.
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- DUPLICATE DCCUMENT m, t c t" v-a These are a few examples of shipments of facilities which did not fully meet NRC, Entire document previously entered which were developed to protect the healGovernors of the three States with into system under:
hb that if the situation is not rectified, ANO would deny use of the three burial sites No. of pages:
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