ML19312D233

Amends 790918 Response to IE Bulletin 79-19.Each of Five Health Physics Ofcs Maintains Set of NRC & DOT Regulations & Set of Collection Contractor Requirements.Audit of Ofcs Is Performed Annually

ML19312D233
Person / Time
Site:	University of Missouri-Rolla
Issue date:	02/28/1980
From:	Bono R, Tsoulfanidis N MISSOURI, UNIV. OF, ROLLA, MO
To:	NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III)
References
IEB-79-19, NUDOCS 8003210583
Download: ML19312D233 (2)

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j Radiation Safety Ofiice BuMng C Rolla. Missouri 65401

- UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ROLLA w p um m2*>

February 28, 1930

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' Director,' Region III Office of Inspection and Enforcement

9) f U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

.799 Roosevelt Road Glen Ellyn, IL 60137

Subject:

Response to NRC IE -Bulletin 79-19

Dear Sir:

The following information is submitted as an amendment to the response submitted- to you on 18 September 1979 in regard to NRC IE Bulletin 79-19. ,

The information covers operations of the University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR)  !

Campus and the UMR Research Reactor. The Research Reactor operates under l license R-79. The UMR Campus laboratories and users are'under license 24-513-32.

All nine items are listed again'fot H sake of completeness. How-ever, only items 4, 6, 8 and 9 are diffi from the earlier response.

'Our amended response is as follows:

1. .Each of five health ' physics offices maintains a set of NRC and D0T regulations.

2. Each health physics office maintains a set of collection contractor requirements.

3. Each health physics office staff member, health physicist and health physics technician,'is designated as responsible for.the safe' transfer, packaging and transport of low-level radioactive material. No other persons are so designated.

4. UMR health physics currently follows the general instructions ilisted in the " Handbook of Radiological Operations" which is applicable throughout the University of Missouri. Health physics will develop a Standard Operating Procedure to cover radioactive waste operations.

5. Health physics office staff members maintain. an understanding of regulatory requirements by self-study and mutual assistance.

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-6. Employees who generate the wastes are instructed in their obli-gations by health physics by supplying'the users with a " Handbook of Radiological Operations" and through periodic laboratory )

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~7. >A'. regular audit of each of the five health physics offices is performed annually with waste management practices constituting a supplement.of the audit.

8. A management-controlled audit of the activities associated with the transfer, packaging and transport of low-level-radioactive waste.was performed on December 20, 1979, and is on file in the health physics office.

9. nThis report is sent as an amendment to any previous response to Bulletin No. 79-19 and: covers the UMR campus only (reactor included).

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1.) One waste shipment was made on May 3,1978 with a total volume of 37.5 cubic feet. No other waste shipments have been made to date.

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Q uantity------------- 0.0263 Ci Isotopes------C-14 Cs-134 p-32 Eu-152 p-33 Na-22 H-3 Ag-110m K-40 3.) Yes, liquid low-level radioactive waste was produced during. scintillation counting. The scintillation liquid contained in vials was packed in vermiculite.

Siricerely yours, f/ hr'0 Ray Bono Health-physicist W

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Dr. N. Tsoulfanidis Radiation Safety Officer RB:NT/bjv

.cc: NRC Office of Inspection.&-Enforcement Division of Fuel Facility & Materials Safety Inspection Washington, D. C. 20555 John Tolan N. Gale D. R. Edwards s