ML19276G304
| ML19276G304 | |
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| Site: | Westinghouse |
| Issue date: | 03/30/1979 |
| From: | Earnestine Clay, Gillespie F NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
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| Shared Package | |
| ML19276G298 | List: |
| References | |
| 70-1151-79-05, 70-1151-79-5, NUDOCS 7905240312 | |
| Download: ML19276G304 (4) | |
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o, MAR 3 01979 Report No. 70-1151/79-5 Licensee; Westinghouse Electric Corporation Drawer R Columbia, South Carolina 29205 Facility Name: Nuclear Fuel Division Docket No. 70-1151 License No. SNM-1107 Safeguards Group No. III Inspection at Miami Int. crna iona;l Airport
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Sl:MMARY Inspection on Marc:a 19-21, 1979 Areas Inspected This routine /special, announced inspection involved 20 inspector-hours on site in the areas of export license review, shipping procedures and tech-niques, container identification tamper-indicating practices and radiation and contamination monitoring.
Results No apparent items of noncomplianace or deviat ions were ident i fied.
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DETAILS 1.
Persons Contacted 1.icensee Employees
- R. P Kennan, West inghouse Elect ric Corpora tion, Pittsburgh, PA kD. L. Cathcart, Westinghouse Elect ric Corporation, Pittsturgh, PA
- 1. Shubert, Marquis Transport Service H. Samiao, Varig Airlines, Assistant Cargo Manager S. Jose Sampaio, Furnas-Centrais Electricas (Customer Rep.)
F. Capille, Furnas-Centrais Electricas (Customer Rep.)
- Attended exit interview.
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Exit Interview The inspection scope and findings were summarized on March 20, 1979 with those persons indicated in Paragraph 1 above.
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Licensee Action on Previous Inspection Findings Not applicable 4.
Unresolved Items Unresolved items were not ident i fied during this inspection.
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Export License Review At the inspection site, the licensee furnished the inspector with a copy of export 1icense XSNM-909 which is being used to export SNM in the Westinghouse Electric Corporation ANAF p roj ec t.
This license indicates the ultimate consignee to be Furnas-Cent rais Elec t ricas, Rua Real Grandeza, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and will expire on May 1, 1979 This license is valid for the amount of 1.392 kilograms U235 as con-tained in 51,889 kilograms uranium enriched to 3.15 weight
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The licensee informed the inspector that to date, 49,320 kilograms uranium have been shipped against this it.ense in six shipments. The inspector verified the validity of this license with t he Division of Licensing and with DOE, Oak Ridge, Tennessee On the basis of evidence presented, the licensee is properly authorized to export SNM under license XSNM-909 and has not exceeded quantities authorized f or shipments.
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Shipping Procedures and Techniques The license contracted the Marquis Transport Service, New York, New York, to transport the SNM containers in shipments eleven and twelve of export license XSNM-900 to Furna s-Cent rai s Electricas, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The Marquis Transport Service contracted the Varig Airlines freight company to transport the material from the licensee's site to the customer.
The Varig Airlines contracted the Leonard Brothers Trucking and Construction Company to transport the material from the licensee's site to the Varig Airlines terminal at the Miami International Airport and to load the SNM on a cargo aircraf t (Boeing 707) of Varig Airlines. The inspector's observation of the movement of these shipments from the licensee's site in Columbia South Carolina, to Varig Airlines freight terminal, Miami International Airport, and the loading of these containers, indicated that shipping procedures were performed in an acceptable manner.
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Container Identification and Documentation Container identification and documentation of each shipping container in shipments eleven and twelve were made by physical observation at the Port of Embarkation (POE), Miami International Airp,rt.
This was crosscheduled to the licensees shipping physically observed data documentation. No discrepancies in the licensee's shipping documenta-tion were noted.
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Packaging and Tamper-indicat_ing Practices SNM, as contained in fuel assemblies, was packaged in RCC-1 and RCC-3 shipping containers. The material was transported from the licensee's site, Columbia, South Carolina to the Varig Airlines terminal at the Miami International Airport on two flat bed trucks.
The shipping containers were securely anchered to each truck by steel chains and wooden blocks.
The shipping containers were placed aboard a Boeing 707 aircraf t of the Varig Airlines.
Each shipping container was securely anchored inside the aircraf t with straps and special jigs. Packaging operations were performed in an acceptable manner.
tamper-indicating Each shipping container used two type-E seals as devices. A type-E seal was placed on each end of each shipping container.
The inspector observed that all tamper-indicating devices were intact upon arrival at the Varig Airlines cargo terminal and were still intact when loaded aboard the cargo aircraft. The licensee's tamper-indicating practices were performed in an acceptable manner.
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Radiation and Contaminat ion Monitoring The inspector monitored each shipping container for gamma radiation contamination and external surface contamination of alpha and beta gamma particles prior to its being loaded aboard the Varig Airlines cargo aircraft. Monitoring for gamma radiation was performed with an Eberline, Model R0-2, inrtrument.
This monitoring was perf ormed by a distance of measuring the radiation levels at surface contact and a
three feet from the surface. These measurements were made at several locations on each side of each shipping containers.
The results of this monitoring indicated gamma radiation levels to be much less than 200 mrem /hr at the surface and much less than 10 mrem /hr at a distance of three feet from the surface Monitoring of each shipping container for surface contamination was performed by using at wipe test of each shipping container.
This wipe test consisted of wiping several spots on the sides, top and bottom of each shipping container with cloth swipes and count,ing the swipes.
Areas wiped with the wipes were in excess of 100 aa' for each shipping container.
Alpha surf ice contamination monitoring was performed with an Eberline, Model PS-2 2, instrument with a Model AC-3 probe The results of this monitorin< indi. pated alpha surface contamination to be much less than 200 dpm/100 cm' Beta - gamma surface contamination monitoring was peri ~ armed with an Eberline, Model PS-2-2 instrument with an HP-210 probe The results of this monitoring i nd i ca t ed.,Be ta gamma surface contamination to be nuch less than 2,200 dpm/100 cm' All containers were released for further shipment.