ML19291B105
| ML19291B105 | |
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| Issue date: | 08/10/1979 |
| From: | James O'Reilly NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
| To: | PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS, INC. |
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| NUDOCS 7908290398 | |
| Download: ML19291B105 (1) | |
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AEROSPACE SERVICES DIVISION PAN AM 9, OMEMS NENNEDY SRACE CENTE I FL 32699 Enclosed is IE Bulletin Do, 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.
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Enclosures:
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OFFICE ^F INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT WASHINGTON, D.C.
20555 August 10, 1979 IE Bulletin No. 79-19 PACKAGING OF LOW-LEVEL RADI0 ACTIVE WASTE FOR TRA Description of Circumstances:
Low-level radioactive waste is that waste which can be transferred and s d by to one of three vaste 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 Chairman Hendrie l
l serious and repeated disregard for rules governing the shipments of low-eve radioactive wastes to these burial facilities.
Examples of violaticas of Agreement State, 'NT and NRC rules follow:
Improperly packaged nranium fines igniting packaged liquid scintillat
,s believed to have caused a fire and destruction of a in combustible wasts 14, 1979 truck at the Beatty, Nevada burial facility on May On July 2, 1979, three of twelve steel containers shipped to the Beat The material was facility were found to be leaking radioactive material.
described on the bill of lading as being a solid inorganic salt (evaporator l
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 co free liquid in " solid" material.
used at an insitu leaching process at a uranium mill.
Forty-three shipments with sixty-three deficienc t
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,
' ' c^ -eri al and tion resulting from improper closures for improper loading of the drums on 2012 '79 These are a few examples of shipment DUPLICATE DOCUMENT facilities which did not fully meet which were developed to protect the Entire document previously Governors of the three States with 1 ntered into system under:
that if the situation is not rectifi
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would deny use of the three burial s ANO No-of pages: