ML19256C852
| ML19256C852 | |
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| Site: | 07001739 |
| Issue date: | 08/08/1979 |
| From: | Higginbotham L, Metzger J NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE) |
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| References | |
| PNO-79-317, NUDOCS 7910150308 | |
| Download: ML19256C852 (2) | |
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g<e PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION August 8, 1979 CRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE--PNO-79-3 7 1
Tnis creliminary notification constitutes EARLY notice of events of POSSIBLE safety or public interest sianificance.
The information presented is as initially received without verification or evaluatic and is basically all tna is known by IE staff on this date.
Facility:
Tri-State Depot at Seneca, Illinois Suciert:
LIQUIDDRIPPINUFROMTRUCKCARRYINGSOLIDWASTEFROMTHE FERMI LABORATORY At 5: 00 p.m., August 7,1979, employees of the Tri-State Trucking Company observed licaid dripping from the ba'ck of a truck carrying solid radioactive waste from the De::ar ment of Energy's Fermi Laboratory.
The truck, believed to be heading to the Earwell, South Carolina, b6 rial site, had stopped aoodt 3:00 p.m. at the terminal in Seneca, Illinois.
The shipment consisted of waste in nine wooden crates, each a:Orcximately 6 ft. x 6 ft. x 4 ft.
The principal isotope was manganese-54.
Two of :ne nine crates appeared to be leaking.
Tne terminal manager informed the corporate manager in Joplin, Missouri, of the in:' cent.
The corporate manager called the Illinois Division of Radiological
.hea'tn who in turn called the NRC Duty Officer.
Tne Department of Energy was informed of the incident at 10:30 p.m. on August 7, 1373 The truck has been isolated and roped off at the Seneca terminal.
Two re: esentatives from the Fermi Laboratory will be going to the terminal this morn-inc. August 8,1979, to check the shipment.
A; :ne present time, the material appears to be DOE material and not under the jur-isc'ction of the NRC.
The DOE will inform the NRC of the results of its survey of
.tne 5-itment.
N C. 2.egion III (Chicago) received notification of this occurrence by telephone
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- ne Heacauarters duty officer at 10:15 p.m, on August 7, 1979.
The infor-2:";- : resented herein is current as of 7:00 a.m.,
August 8, 1979.
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Contact:
J. R. Metzger, IE x28188 L. B. Higginbotham, IE x28188 Distribution:
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