ML19291B189
| ML19291B189 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 08/10/1979 |
| From: | James O'Reilly NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
| To: | PHILIP MORRIS, USA |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7908290669 | |
| Download: ML19291B189 (1) | |
Text
1L
.a IA
++'
'o UNITED STATES l'
- ,j NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
. s., 7,
REGION 11 r
g-f 101 MARIETT A ST., N.W., SulTE 3100
% ' b' [/
o AT LANT A, G EoRGI A 30303 AUG 101979
- ...+
phhk hk PHILIP MORRIS USA HESE ARCH Ct.NTER P'.0. B0x 20583 VA
- *I HICMMOND Enclosed is IE Bulletin No. 79-19, which requires action by you vith regard to your NRC license.
Should you have questions regarding this Bulletin or the actions required of you, please contact this office.
Sincerely, h
. %s J.
Q James')P. O'Reilly Director
Enclosures:
1.
List of Bulletins Issued in Last Six Months 7908290669,
2012 101
Accession No:
7908070515 SSINS Nc: 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 RADI0 ACTIVE WASTE FOR TRA Description of Circumstances:
Low-level radioactive vaste is that waste which can be transferred and d licensed by to one of three waste burial facilities which are located in an On July 10, the Agreement States of Nevada, South Carolina, and W f low-level serious and repeated disregard for rules governing the shipments o radioactive wastes to these burial facilities.
Examples of violations of Agreement State, DOT and NRC rules follow:
Improperly packaged uranium fines igniting packaged liquid scintil in combustible waste is believed to have caused a fire an 14, 1979.
truck at the Beatty, Nevada burial facility on May l
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 ility. The concentrates solidified with urea formaldehyde) from state and the burial facility was temporarily closed.
i d On July 30, the first shipment into the reopened Beatty facility conta free liquid in " solid" material.
used at an insitu leaching process at a uranium mill.
Forty-three shipments with sixty-three deficiencies were observed h Agreement package inspection program between April 10 and July 5, 1979, by 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 h a-On June 28, 1979, Violation to a reactor facility tion resulting from improper el forimproperloadingofthedrj 2012 fro DUPLICATE DOCUMENT Entire docu These are a few examples of sh entered int s stem u er:
facilities which did not fully which were developed to protec y
/
h h
l(L Governors of the three States s
that if the situation is not r N o.
of pages:
would deny use of the three bu
_