ML19254B076
| ML19254B076 | |
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| Issue date: | 08/16/1979 |
| From: | Pappas H NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
| To: | Wright G ILLINOIS, STATE OF |
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| NUDOCS 7909240068 | |
| Download: ML19254B076 (9) | |
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GLEN ELLYN,ILLINOls 60137 AUG161979 State of Illinois Department of Public Health ATTN:
Mr. Gray N. Wright Division of Nuclear Safety 535 West Jefferson Street Springfield, IL 62761 Gentlemen:
The enclosed IE Bulletin No. 79-19 titled " Packing of Low-Level Radioactive Waste for Transport and Burial" was sent to the licensees listed below and to materials licensees on the attached listing on August 10, 1979, for action:
Operating Plants American Electric Power Company Indiana and Michigan Power Company D. C. Cook 1, 2 (50-315, 50-316)
Commonwealth Edison Company Dresden 1, 2, 3 (50-10, 50-237, 50-249)
Quad-Cities 1, 2 (50-254, 50-265)
Zion 1, 2 (50-295, 50-304)
Consumers Power Company Big Rock Point (50-155)
Palisades (50-255)
Dairyland Power Cooperative LACBWR (50-409)
Iowa Electric Light & Power Company Duane Arnold (50-331)
Northern States Power Company Monticello (50-263)
Prairie Island 1, 2 (50-282, 50-306)
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State of Illinois ggg y g g7g Toledo Edison Company Davis-Besse 1 (50-346)
Wisconsin Electric Power Company Point Beach 1, 2 (50-266, 50-301)
Wisconsin Public Service Corporation Kewaunee (50-305)
Research Reactors Curators of the University of Missouri (50-123)
Dow Chemical Company (50-264)
Iowa State University (50-116)
Michigan State University (50-294)
Ohio State University (50-150)
Purdue University (50-182)
University of Illinois (50-151, 50-356)
University of Michigan (50-2)
University of Missouri (50-186)
University of Wisconsin (50-156)
Westinghouse Nucleat Training Reactor (50-87) s g
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State of Illinois AUG 1 6197B Fuel Facilities Allied Chemical Corporation (40-3392)
Battelle Columbus Laboratories (70-08)
Combustion Engineering, Incorporated (70-36)
General Electric Company (70-1308, 70-1309, 70-1220)
Goodyear Aerospace Corporation (70-1489)
Kerr-McGee Nucle < r Corporation (70-925, 70-Dr;3)
Purdue Univers..ty (70-152)
Sincerely, bej f
Helen Pappas, Chief Administrative Branch
Enclosures:
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List of Bulletins Issued in Last Six Months 3.
Materials Address Listing cc w/encls:
Mr. D. W. Kane, Sargent & Lundy Central Files Reproduction Unit NRC 20b PDR Local PDR NSIC TIC 1-A c
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Accession No: 7908070515 SSINS No: 6820 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY Comf1SSION OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCDfENT
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August 10, 1979 IE Bulletin No. 79-19 PACKAGING OF LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE FOR TRANSPORT AND BURIA Description of Circumstances:
Low-level radioactive vaste is that waste which can be tra;,sferred and shipped to one of three waste burial facilities which are located in and licensed by the Agreement States of Nevada, South Carolina, and Wae.hington.
On July 10, 1979, the Governors of the three states notified NRC Clairman Hen,drie of the serious and repeated disregard for rules governing t b 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.
i On July 2,1979, three of twelve steel containers shipped to the Beatty bt. ial facility were found to be leaking radioactiv material.
The material was described on the bill of lading as being a solid inorganic salt (evaporator concentrates solidified with ures formaldehyde) from a reactor facility.
The Governor of the State of Nevada ordered the drums to be shipped out of the sts 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 p.tocc:s 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, S.C. burial facility. The shipments were from reactor, medical, industrial and military facilities.
4 On June 28, 1979, the Federal Highway Administration issued a Notice of Violation to a reactor facility pro tion resulting from improper closur
- J. for improper loading of the drums o DUPLICATE DOCUMENT These are a few examples of shipmen Entire document previously entered facilities which did not fully meet into system under:
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,9 o 807d 575 Governors of the three States with ANO that if the situation is not rectif would deny use of the three burial No. of pages:
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