ML19263E964
| ML19263E964 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Fort Saint Vrain  |
| Issue date: | 08/10/1979 |
| From: | Seyfrit K NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
| To: | Millen C PUBLIC SERVICE CO. OF COLORADO |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7908160054 | |
| Download: ML19263E964 (1) | |
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's,,.....f August 10, 1979 Docket No. 50-267 Public Service Company of Colorado ATTN:
Mr. C. K. Millen Senior Vice President P. O. Ecx 840 Denver, Colorado 80201 Centlemen:
Enclosed is IE Bulletla :;o. 79-19, which requires action by you with regard to your reactor facility with an operating license.
Should you have questions regarding this Sulletin or the actions required of you, please contact this office.
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Enclosures:
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IE Balletin No. 79-19 2.
List of Bulletins Issued in Last Six Months cc:
D. W. Warenbourg, Nuclear Production Manager Fort St. Vrain Suclear Station P. O. Box 368 Platteville, Colorado. 80651 L. Brey, Manager, Quality Assurance
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT WASIIINGTON, D.C.
20555 IE Bulletin No. 79-19 Date:
August 10, 1979 page 1 of 3 pACKA'i1NG OF LOW-LEVEL PADI0 ACTIVE WASTE FOR TRANSPORT AND BURI AL Descru~.un 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, th-Covernors 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 fo
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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 were found to be leaking radioactive material.
The material was described on the bill of lading as being a solid inorgarte salt (evaporator concentrates solidified with urea formaldehyde) from r. reactor facility. The Governor of the State of Nevada ordered the drums ta be shipped out of the st. ate 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, industrial and military facilities.
On June 28, 1979, the Federal Highway Administration issued a Notice of Violation to a reactor facility proposing a $10,000 fine for truck contamina-
- t. ion resulting f rom 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 of facilities which did not fully meet NRC, DUPLICATE DOCUMENT which were develored to protect the heal Governors of the three States with liter Entire document previously that if the situation is not rectified, entered into system under:
would deny use of the three burial sites ANO 1 'f 0 8 6 7 6 6 / $
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