ML19320B789
| ML19320B789 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | 07001113 |
| Issue date: | 03/03/1980 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
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| Shared Package | |
| ML19320B771 | List: |
| References | |
| 70-1113-80-03, 70-1113-80-3, NUDOCS 8007150043 | |
| Download: ML19320B789 (2) | |
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o MAR -41980 APPENDIX A NOTICE OF VIOLATION General Electric Company License No. SNM-1097 Wilmington Manufacturing Department Based on the NRC inspection January 29-30, February 11-12, 1980, certain of your activities were apparently not conducted in full compliance with NRC requirements as indicated below. These items have been categorized as described in correspon-dence to you dated December 31, 1974 and December 3,1979.
A.
As required by 10 CFR 70.58(h), "A system of storage and internal handling controls shall be established, maintained, and followed to provide current knowledge of the identity, quantity, and location of all special nuclear material contained within a plant in discrete items and containers."
Contrary to the above, during the period January 24-28, 1980, the licensee failed to have current knowled e of the location of three cylinders containing F
enriched uranium hexafluoride.
This is an infraction.
B.
As required by 10 CFR 71.5(a), "No licensee shall... deliver any licensed material to a carrier for transport, unless the licensee complies with the applicable requirements of the regulations appropriate to the mode of transport, of the Department of Transportation in 49 CFR Parts 170-189."
49 CFR 172.202(a) and 49 CFR 172.203(d) provide requirements for shipping papers and information to be contained thereon for shipments of radioactive material. As required by 49-CFR 172.403, packages containing radioactive material for shipment will be labeled. 49 CFR 172.506 requires that the shipper provide identifying placards which will be affixed to hazardous material transported by the motor carrier.
Contrary to the above, on January 24, 1980, the licensee delivered for transport three cylinders of enriched uranium hexafluoride without properly describing the material in shipping papers, without properly labeling the cylinder overpacks and without providing the carrier with required placards.
This is a Severity Level III noncompliance.
C.
As required by 10 CFR 20.205(b)(1), "Each licensee, upon receipt of a package of radioactive material, shall monitor the external surfaces of the package for radioactive contamination caused by leakage of the radioactive contents The monitoring shall be performed... no later than three hours after the package is received at the licensee's facility if received during the normal working hours...."
ON 8007150
MAR -41980 General Electric Company Appendix A License No. SNM-1097 Notice of Violation Contrary to the above, the licensee failed to manitor the external surfaces of packages containing radioactive material (cylinder overpacks) on trailer number 340217 received on January 23, 1980 prior to the subsequent shipment offsite of that trailer on January 24, 1980.
This is an infraction.
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