ML19263E963
| ML19263E963 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Fort Calhoun  |
| Issue date: | 08/10/1979 |
| From: | Seyfrit K NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
| To: | Short T OMAHA PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7908160053 | |
| Download: ML19263E963 (1) | |
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August 10, 1979 Docket No.
50-285 Omaha Public Power District ATTN:
T. E. Short, Assistant General Manager 1623 Harney Street Om-ha, Nebraska 68102 Gentlemen:
Enclosed is IE Bulletin No. 79-19, which requires action by you with regard to your reactor facility with an o,-vating license.
Should you have questions regarding this Bulletin or the actions required of you, please contact this office.
Sincerely,
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Enclosures:
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List of Bulletins Issued in Last Six Months cc:
R. L. Andrews, Manager Fort Calhoun Station Post Office Box 98 Fort Calhoun, Nebraska 68102 9
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UNITED STATES NUCl. EAR REGULATORY COM!!!SSION OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEttENT WASilINGTON, D.C.
20555 IE Ilulletin No. 79-19 Date. August 10, 1979 Page 1 of 3 PACK.b l,u ' T LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE FOR TRANSPORT AND llURI AL uf Ci rcumstEces:
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Low-levn radioactive waste is that waste which can be transferred and shipped to oni et three waste burial facilities which are located in and licensed by the Ag:+emeat States of Nevada, South Carolina, and Washington. On July 10, 1979, the Governors of the three states notified NRC Chairman llendrie of the serious and repeated disregard f or rules governing t he shipments of low-level radioactive wastes to these burial facilities.
Examples of violations of Agreement State, DOT and NRC rules follow:
Improper 7 packaged uranium fines igniting packaged liquid scintillation vials in combustible waste is helieved 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 facilit.y were found to he leaking radioactive material.
The material was described on 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 llarnwell, South Carolina hurial facility.
The shipments were f rom reactor, medical, indust rial and milita ry f acilities.
On June 23, 1979, the Federal llighway Administration issued a Notice of Violation to a reactor f acility 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 '
These are a few examples of shipments of facilities which did not fully meet NRC, DUPLICATE DOCUMENT which were developed to protect the hea Entire document previously Governors of the three States with licer that if the situation is not rectified, entered into system under:
would deny use of the three burial site:
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