ML19253A658
| ML19253A658 | |
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| Site: | 07000824 |
| Issue date: | 08/10/1979 |
| From: | James O'Reilly NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
| To: | Engelder T BABCOCK & WILCOX CO. |
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| NUDOCS 7909100630 | |
| Download: ML19253A658 (1) | |
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Dr. Theodore C. Eq; cider, Direc tor Lynchburg Research Center Research and Development l'ivision P. O. Box 1260 Lynchburg, Virginia 24505 Gentlenen:
Enclosed is IE Bulletin No. 79-19, which requires action by you with regard to your NP.C license.
Should you have questions regarding this Eulletin or the actions required of you, please contact this office.
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20555 August 10, 1979 IE Bulletin No. 79-19 PACKAGING OF LOW-LEVEL RADI0 ACTIVE WASTi. FOR TRANSPORT AND BURIAL Description of Circumstances:
Low-level radioactive waste is that vaste which can be transferred and shipped to one of three waste burial facilities which are located in and licensed by On July 10, the Agreement States of Nevada, South Carolina, and Washington.
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 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 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 State of South Carolina, at the Barnvell, S.C. burial facility.
The shipments were from reactor, medical, industrir.1 and military facilities.
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