ML19249D266
| ML19249D266 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 06/18/1979 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
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| ML19249D265 | List: |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7909210456 | |
| Download: ML19249D266 (2) | |
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s APPEND _IX A 6
NOTICE OF VIOLATION University of Chicago License No. 12-00509-03 Based on the inspection conducted on May 7 certain of your activities were 1979, it appears that in noncompliance with NRC require-
- ments, as noted below.
Items 1 and 2 are a deficiency.
infractions, and item 3 is 1.
10 CFR 20.103(a)(1) requires licensed material in such a manner as notthat you possess, use or transfer in a the uptake by any organ from either inhal tirestri that erial such or both routes of intake in any calendar quart a
on or absorption exceed that which would result er does not raaterial for 40 hours4.62963e-4 days <br />0.0111 hours <br />6.613757e-5 weeks <br />1.522e-5 months <br /> per week forfrom inhaling such radioactive tions specified in 10 CFR 20, Appendix B13 weeks at uniform concentra-Footnote 4 to Section 10 CFR 20.103 provides thTable I, Column 1.
ingestion or injection be included i at intakes by above intake has been exceeded.
determining whether the Contrary to this requirement, one individual working in a restricted areayour bioassay measurements show calendar quarter of 1979 had a during the second microcuries, thyroid uptake of about a quantity in excess of the limits specified 1.8 above.
2.
the requirements of 10 CFR 20.103 you use10 CFR ne compliance with of concentrations of radioactive materialssuitable measureme and evaluating airborne radioactivity in restrictin air for detecting in addition, as appropriate ed areas and vity ir the body, measuremen,ts of radioactivityshall use measur the body, or any combination of such pea excreted from necessary for timely detection and assessment of i di isurements as m intakcs of radioactivity by exposed individuals n v dual Contrary to this requirement your employees show no measur,ement of airborne concyour records radiactive materials were made between October 23 entration of April 24, radioactivity in the body made between December 20 1978, and April 27, iodine-125 in Laboratory P-616 of Eillings Hospital 1978, and s with sufficient
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JU:1181379 University of Chicago a to determine compliance with the uptake limits of 10 CFR 20.103(a)(3) and 10 CFR 20.103(b)(2) for the first calendar quarter of 1979.
This is a repeat item of noncompliance.
3.
10 CFR 20.103(b)(2) requires that whenever tne intake of radio-active material by any individual exceeds that which would result from inhalation of such material for forty hours at the uniform concentrations specified in 10 CFR 20, Appendix B, Table 1, Column 1, you make such evaluations and take such actions as are necessary to assure against recurrence.
10 CFR 20.103(b)(2) further requires that you maintain records of such occurrences, evaluations, and actions taken in a clear and readily identifiable form suitable for summary review and evaluation.
Contrary to this requirement, your records and statements of your employees show you failed to maintain a record in clear and readily identifiable form suitable for summary review sad evaluation of actions taken to assure against recurrence of an uptake of iodine-125 in excess of the above fourty hour limit that occurred on April 24, 1979, in Laboratory P-616 of Billings Hospital.
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