ML19291B103
| ML19291B103 | |
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| Issue date: | 08/10/1979 |
| From: | James O'Reilly NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
| To: | GEOLOGICAL CONSULTING SERVICES, INC. |
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| NUDOCS 7908290395 | |
| Download: ML19291B103 (1) | |
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tu sux 848 BLUEPIELD VA d4005 Enclosed is IE Bulletin No. 79-19, which requires action by you with regard to your NRC license.
Should you have questions regarding this Bulletin or the actions required of you, please contact this office.
Sincerely, N
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Q JamesP. O'Reilly 4 Director
Enclosures:
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7908070515 SSINS No: 6820 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT WASHINGTON, D.C.
20555 August 10, 1979 IE Bulletin No. 79-19 PACKAGING OF LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE FOR TRANS Description of Circumstances:
Low-level radioactive waste is that vaste which can be transferred and sh d by to one of three waste burial facilities which are located in and licen On July 10, the Agreement States of Nevada, South Carolina, and Washington.
1979, the Governors of the three states notified NRC l
l radioactive wastes to these burial facilities.
Examples of violations of Agreement State, DOT and NRC rules follow:
Improperly packaged uranium fines igniting packaged liquid scintillatio in combustible waste is believed to have caused a fire and d 14, 1979.
truck at the Beatty, Nevada burial facility on May On July 2, 1979, three of twelve steel containers shipped to the Beatty The material was facility were found to be leaking radioactive material.
described on the bill of lading as being a solid inorganic salt (evaporator The concentrates solidified with urea formaldehyde) from a state and the burial facility was temporarily closed.
On July 30, the first shipment into the reopened Beatty facility con free liquid in " solid" material.
used at an insitu leaching process at a uranium mill.
Forty-three shipments with sixty-three deficiencie The shipments State of South Carolina, at the Barnwell, S.C. burial facility.
were from reactor, medical, industrial and military facilities.
the Federal Highway Administration issued a Notice of Violation to a reactor facility proposing a $10,000 fine for truck contamina-On June 28, 1979, tion resulting from improper closur for improper loading of the drums o DUPLICATE DOCUMENT These are a few examples of shipmen 2012 173 facilities which did not fully meet Entire document previously which were developed to protect the entered into system under:
Governors of the three States with qQ that if the situation is not rectif ANO //
would deny use of the three burial No. of pages:
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