ML19291B032
| ML19291B032 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Browns Ferry  |
| Issue date: | 08/10/1979 |
| From: | James O'Reilly NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
| To: | Parris H TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7908290217 | |
| Download: ML19291B032 (2) | |
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In Reply Refer To:
RII:JPO 50-259, 50-260 50-296 Tennessee Valley Authority Attn:
H. G. Parris Manager of Pc~ar 500A Chestnut Street Tower II Chattanooga, Tennessee 37h01 Gentlemen:
Enclosed is IE Bulletin No. 79-19, which requires action by you with regard to your reactor facility (ies) with an operating license.
Should you have questions regarding this Bulletin or the actions required of you, please contact this office.
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Enclosures:
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J. G. Dewease Plant Superintendent Post Office Box 2000 Decatur, Alabic :a 35602 J. F. Cox 400 Comerce Street W10C131 C Knoxville, Tennessee 37902 D. E. McCloud Project Engineer 400 Chestnut Street Tower II Chattanooga, Tennessee 37401 2013 243
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Accession No: 7908070515 SSINS No: 6820 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR.7-ULATORY COMMISSION OFFICE OF INSPEii'ON AND ENFORCEMENT WASHINGTON, b.C 20555 August 10, 1979 IE Bulletin No. 79-19 PACKAGING OF LOW-LEVEL RADI0 ACTIVE WASTE FOR TRANSPORT AND BURIAL Description 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 On July 10, the Agreement States of Fevada, South Carolina, and Vashington.
1979, the Governors 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 follow:
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 The material was facility were found to be leaking radioactive material.
described on the bill of lading as being a solid inorganic salt (evaporatorThe concentrates solidified with urea formaldehyde) from a reactor facility.
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 Barnwell, S.C. burial facility. The shipments were from reactor, medical, industrial and military facilities.
<==nad a Natica af On June ?.8, 1979, the Federal Highw Ad-iai=+<=tian Violatiot to a reactor facility pro tion resu. ting from improper closur for improper loading of the drums o DUPLICATEDOCUMENTg'(,)lj
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