ML19262A590
| ML19262A590 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | 07000687 |
| Issue date: | 08/06/1979 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
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| Shared Package | |
| ML19262A578 | List: |
| References | |
| 70-0687-79-02, 70-687-79-2, NUDOCS 7912070098 | |
| Download: ML19262A590 (2) | |
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APPENDIX A NOTICE OF VIOLATION Union Carbide Corporation Docket No.70-687 Medical Products Division License No. SNM-639 Based on the results of an NRC inspection conducted on May 14-16,1979, it appears that certain of your activities were not conducted in full compliance with NRC regulations and the conditions of your facility license as indicated below.
Item A is an infraction.
Items B through D are deficiencies.
A.
10 CFR 20,201(b), " Surveys," requires that surveys be conducted as may be necessary to comply with the regulations contained in each section of Part
- 20.. A " survey," as defined in Paragraph 20.201(a), means "an evaluation of the radiation hazards incident to production, use, release, disposal, or presence of radioactive materials or other sources of radiation under a s aecific set of conditions. When appropriate, such evaluation includes a p1ysical survey of tht location of materials and equipment, and measurements of levels of radiation or concentrations of radioactive materials present."
Contrary to the above, on May 15, 1979, an individual was observed leaving a controlled alpha contamination area and he failed to survey for hand, shoe, and clothing alpha contamination.
B.
Amdendment No. 2, dated October 30, 1978, incorporated a license amendment application, dated May 3,1978, into condition 9 of the facility License No. SNM-639. The May 3,1978 application states, in part, that the arrange-ment of drums, in a hot cell, will be as shown in the enclosed drawing. The drawing number 101348 showed a planar array of 5 drums in a hot cell.
Contrary to the above, on May 15, 1979, Hot Cell No. 5 contained a planar array of 7-17-H drums and Hot Cell No.1 contained a stacked array of 13-17-H drums which were not arranged as shown on drawing number 101348 C.
Amendment No. 2, dated October 30, 1978, incorporates license condition 15 into the facility license which states that where U-235 mass limits are imposed as criticality control criteria, the licensee shall maintain running U-235 inventory records to assure that these masses are not exceeded.
Contrary to the above, On May 15, 1979, the licensee was not maintaining running U-235 inventory records for the welding laboratory, the solution 1522 253 912070 C98 7
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make-up laboratory, the plating laboratory, the waste solution storage laboratory and for each of the five hot cells to assure that the mass limits are not exceeded.
D.
10 CFR 20.203(e)(1), " Caution signs, labels, signals and control."
"Addi-tional requirements" states, in part, that each area or room in which licensed material is used or stored and which contains any radioactive material in an amount exceeding 10 times the quantity of such material specified in Appendix C (0.01 microcuries) of this part shall be conspicuously posted with a sign or signs bearing the radiation caution symbol and words Caution - Radioactive Material (s).
Contrary to the above, on May 15, 1979, the Quality Control Laboratory and a storage drawer in the Quality Control Laboratory (which contained U-235 bearing material in excess of the specified limit 0.1 microcuries) was not conspicuously posted with a sign or signs bearing the radiation caution symbol and the words Caution - Radioactive Material (s).
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