ML19291B193
| ML19291B193 | |
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| Issue date: | 08/10/1979 |
| From: | James O'Reilly NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
| To: | QUALITY PRODUCTS, INC., VIRGIN ISLANDS |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7908290676 | |
| Download: ML19291B193 (1) | |
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VI 00801 UT THUMAS Enclosed is IE hlletin No. 79-19, which requires action by you with regard to your NRC license.
Stould you have questions regarding this Bulletin or the actions required of you, please contact this office.
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7908070515 SSINS No: 6820 UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY CGMMISSION 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 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 the Agreement States of Nevada, South Carolina, and Washington. On July 10, 1979, the Governors of the three states notified NRC Chairman Hendrie of the serious and repeated disregard for rules governing the shipents of low-level radioactive vastes to these burial facilities.
Examples of violations of Agreement State, DOT and NRC rules follow:
Improperly packaged uranium 'ines 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 rand 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.
On June 28, 1979, the Federal Highway Administration issued a Notice of Violation to a reactor facility proposing a $10,000 fine for truck contamina-and tion resulting from improper clos for improper loading of the drums These are a few examples of shipm DUPLICATE DOCUMEN2012 10'9 facilities which did not fully me Ent. re document previously which were developed to protect t e
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