ML19253A653
| ML19253A653 | |
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| Site: | 07001201 |
| Issue date: | 08/10/1979 |
| From: | James O'Reilly NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
| To: | Silk E BABCOCK & WILCOX, BABCOCK & WILCOX CO. |
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| NUDOCS 7909100625 | |
| Download: ML19253A653 (1) | |
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AVE 101979 In Reply Ref er To:
RII:JPO 70-1201 Babc6ck and Wilcox Company Attn:
Mr. Edmond J. Silk, Plant Nuclear Materials Division Corrercial Nuclear Fuel Plant P. O. Box 1260 Lynchburg, Virginia 24505 Genticnen:
Enclosed is IE Bulletin No. 79-19, which requires action by you with regard to your NEC license.
Should you have questions regarding this Eulletin or the actions required of you, please contact this office.
Siscerely, 1
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Enclosures:
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6820 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMEh7 WASHINGTON, D.C.
20555 August 10, 1979 IE Bulletin No. 79-19 PACKAGING OF LOW-LEVEL RADI0 ACTIVE WASTE FOR TR Description of Circumstances:
waste which can be transferred and shipped Low-level radioactive waste i.; thatto one of three waste burial facilitie d by lina, and Washington. On July 10, the Agreement States of Nevada, South Caro f the 1979, the Governors of the three states notified NRC Chairman Hendrie o l
l serious and repeated disregard for rules governing the shipments of low-eve radioactive wastes to these burial facilities.
Examples of violations of Agreement State, DOT and NRC rules follow:
Improperly packaged uranium fines igniting packaged liquid scintilla in combustible waste is believed to have caused a fire and 14, 1979 truck at the Beatty, Nevada burial facility on May On July 2, 1979, three of twelve steel containers shipped to the Beat The material was facility were found to be leaking radioactive material.
described on the bill of lading as being a solid incrganic salt (evaporator The concentrates solidified with urea formaldehyde) from state and the burial facility was temporarily closed.
On July 30, the first shipment into the reopened Beatty facility c free liquid in " solid" material.
used at an insitu leaching process at a uranium mill.
Forty-three shipments with sixty-three deficiencies were observed du
--t package inspection program between April 10 and July 5, 1979, by the %
The shipm State of South Carolina, at the Barnwell, S.C. burial f acility.
were from reactor, medical, industrial and military facilities.
the Federal Highway Administration issued a Notice of
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