ML19253A762
| ML19253A762 | |
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| Site: | 05000124 |
| Issue date: | 08/10/1979 |
| From: | James O'Reilly NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
| To: | Parkinson T VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE & STATE UNIV., BLACKSB |
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| NUDOCS 7909110189 | |
| Download: ML19253A762 (1) | |
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RII:JPO 50-124 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Attn:
T. F. Parkinson, Director Nuclear Laboratory Blacksburg, Virginia 24060 Genticnen :
Enclosed is IE Bulletin No. 79-19, which requires action by you with regard to your reactor facility (ies) with an operating license.
Should you have questions regarding this Eulletin or the actions required of you, please contact this office.
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6820 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND ESTORCEMEhT WASHINGTON, D.C.
20555 August 10, 1979 IE Bulletin No. 79-19 PACKAGING OF LOW-LEVEL RADI0 ACTIVE WASTE FOR TRANSPORT AND Description of Circumstance.
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 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 radioactivt vastes 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 (evaporatorTne 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 an insitu leaching process at a uraniu:a mill.
used at Forty-t.o.a shipments with sixty-three deficiencies were observed during the cackage 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.
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