ML19291B196
| ML19291B196 | |
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| Issue date: | 08/10/1979 |
| From: | James O'Reilly NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
| To: | EMVSENTE |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7908290681 | |
| Download: ML19291B196 (1) | |
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4901 NEST HY 42 POB 31 908HtN KY 40026 Enclosed is IE N11etin No. 79-19, which requires action by you with regard to your NRC license.
Should you have questions regarding this Eulletin or the actions required of you, please contact this office.
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Enclosures:
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6320 UNITED STATES FUCIAAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OEFICF/0F INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT WAS31NGT0E, D.C.
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IE Bulletin No. 79-19 PACK GING Of LOW-LEC L RADICACTIVE Wa5TE FUM W NSPORT AND BURIAL Description of Circumstances:
Low-level radioictive waste is that waste viich ctn be transfrrred and shipped to one of three vante burial facilities which are located in and licensed by the Agreemen: States of Neva.la, South Carolina, rid Washington. Cn July 10, 1979, the Gavernors of the 'three states notified NRC Chsirman Hendrie of the serions,ard repeated digragard for rules governing,tae shipments of low-level radioactive wastes to these byrial facilities.
Examples oi violations of Agreement State, DOT and NRC rules f ollow:
Improperly pcckaged uraniun fines igniting packaged liquid scintillation vials in combustible vaste is believed to have caused a fire and destruction of a truck at the Eastty, Nevada burial facility es May 14, 1979.
On July 2, 1979. tbree of twelve steel containers shipped to tae Beatty burial facility were found to be leakirg radioactive material. The material was described on the bill of lading as being a solid inorganic salt (eveporator concentrates solidified with urea, formaldehyde) irom a reactor f aci:lity. The
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Governor of the State of Nevada ordered ?.he dre.es to be shipped out of the state and the burial facility was temporarily-closed. -
On July 30, the first shipment into the reopene1 Beatty facility contained free liquid in " solid" material. The radioactive. contents were sand filters used a+. an insitu leaching process at a uranite mill.
It'ty-three shipments with sixty-th ee deficienciec were obserhed during the packag: ' inspection program between April 10 and July 5 1979, by the Agreecent
'St ate of South Carolina, at the Barnwell, S.C. burial facility. The shipments wer.c frce reactor,' medical, indus' trial and military facilities.
' On June 28, 1979, the FederaD Highway Administration issued a Notice of Violation to o. reactor facility proposin a $13 000 fine for truck contamina-tion resulting 3 ram improper closur for improper loading of the drums o i
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