ML19254A770
| ML19254A770 | |
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| Site: | 05000192 |
| Issue date: | 08/10/1979 |
| From: | Seyfrit K NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
| To: | Gloyna E TEXAS, UNIV. OF, AUSTIN, TX |
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| NUDOCS 7908160097 | |
| Download: ML19254A770 (1) | |
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August 10, 1979 In Reply Refer To:
Docket No. 50-192 The University of Texas ATTN:
Dr.
E. F. Gloyna, Dean College of Engineering Austin, Texas 78712 Gentlemen:
Enclosed is IE Bulletin No. 79-19, which requires action by you with regard to your reactor facility with an operating license.
Should you have questions regarding this Bulletin or the actions required of you, please contact this office.
Sincerely,
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Karl V. Seyfrit Director
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20555 IE Bulletin No. 79-19 Date:
August 10, 1979 Page 1 of 3 PACKAG. C OF LOW-LEVEL EADI0 ACTIVE WASTE FOR TRANSPORT AND BURIAL Description of Circumstances:
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 the Agreement States of Nevada, South Carolina, and Washington. On July 10, 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 facility wera found to be leaking radioactive material.
The material was described oi. the bill of lading as being a solid inorganic salt (evaporator concentrates solidified with urea formaldehyde) from a reactor facility. The 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 Barnwell, South Carolina burial facility. The shipments were from reactor, medical, indust rial and military facilities.
On Je.ne 28, 1979, the Federal liighway Administration issued a Notice of Violation to a reactor facility proposing a $10,000 fine for truck contamina-tion resulting from improper closures on 55 gallon drums of LSA material and for improper loading of the drums on the vehicle.
These are a few examples of shipments o facilities which did not fully meet NRC which were developed to protect the hea Governors of the three States with lice DUPLICATE DOCUMENT that if the situation is not rectified, would deny use of the three burial site Entire document oreviously entered into system under:
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