ML19330A685
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| Issue date: | 07/16/1980 |
| From: | Janinek M NRC OFFICE OF STATE PROGRAMS (OSP) |
| To: | Cunningham R, Grella A, Rosalyn Jones NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE), NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS), NRC OFFICE OF STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT |
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JUL 161980 MEMORANDUM FOR:
Kenneth L, Pierson, FHWA-DOT Arthur Warren, FAA-DOT James Shuler, NTB-DOT Ralph J. Jones, SD-NRC Richard E. Cunningham, NMSS-NRC A. W. Grella, IE-NRC FROM:
Marie Janinek, State Relations Officer Office of State Programs
SUBJECT:
THIRD QUARTERLY REPORT (FIRST YEAR) FROM WASHINGTON ON TRANSPORTATION SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM Enclosed is the third quarterly progress report (first year) submitted by Washington on its transportation surveillance program under contract with NRC and 00T. The report covers the period, March 10 - June 9,1980.
Any conmnts you might have on the report would be appreciated.
h( '. I rn..[d Marie a inek State Relations Officer Office os State Programs
Enclosure:
Report fm E. L. Gronemyer dtd 7/9/80 l
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Distribution List for Third Quarterly Report (First Year) submitted by Washington on Transportation Surveillance Program.
W. Carriker, MTB/ DOT A. Heubner, CT U. Clark, FL W. Ingram, GA B. Kahn, Georgia Tech.
M. Neuweg IL R. Osborne, 'KY
- 0. Thompson, MD D. Ven Farowe, MI J. Hennigan, MI M. McCarty, MI J. Vaden. NV F. Cosolito, NJ H. Shealy, SC T. Strong, WA (w/o Encls.)
R. Engelken Reg. V/NRC D. Kunihiro, RSLO Reg. V/NRC N. Lewis, SLO, WA D. Hopkins, SD/NRC A. Tse, SD/NRC S. Bernstein, SD/NRC V. Hodge, NMSS/NRC D. Gibbons, LASL W. Kerr, SP/NRC F. Young, SP/NRC M. Janinek, SP/NRC (4 w/o Encl.)
A. Dobrientecki PDR:
" Transportation Surveillance" PDR: " Washington"
a ATTACilMENT A SilIPMENTS RECEIVED Total Shipments Loads In Total Non-Period Received Noncompliance Compliance Iter.s March 10-14 27 1
4 March 17-21 20 0
0 March 24-28 32 1
1 March 31-April 4 15 2
1 April 7-11 15 0
0 April 14-18 25 0
0 April 21-25 18 1
1 April 28-May 2 21 5
10 May 5-9 14 0
0 May 12-16 22 7
7 lby 19-23 No state inspector at NECo site this week 0 May 27-30 21 2
2 June 2-6 15 5
15 Waste Volumes Af ter the start of this quarter it was determined that keeping a tally on the t otal number of packages arriving at the site wonid be useful information.
Realiza..g the complications in obtaining a total for packages received during the first part of the quarter, the tally did not start until April 14.
From April 14 through June 6, 1980, 2 total of 14,337 packages of radioactive vaste were placed in burial trenches at the NECo site. Additional totals and in-formation regarding cubic feet, curies and kilograms of source material are as follows:
Month Cubic Feet Curies Source Material (Kilocrams)
March 1980 86,898.97 3331.876 3642.004 April 1980 61,357.12 521.416 2132.11 May 1980 59,876.74 183.35 4683.4 g
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Site Survey Results ads Action Taken In Inspection Total Non-Warning Suspension Reinst.atemen Dates Loads Comp.
Date Company number Non-Compliance Letter Date Date Date March 10-14 27 1
3/.'2 Company 25 Package deformation 3/13/80 6/19/80 March 17-21 20 0
March 24-28 32 1
3/24 Company 25 Leaking drum 3/24/80 6/19/80 Mar 31-Apr 4 15 2
3/31 Company 25 Leaking drum 3/31/80 6/19/80 3/31 Company 18 Surface radiation over limit 3/31/80 5/9/80 April 4-11 15..
O April 14-18 25 0
April 21-25 18 1
4/25 Company 26a Radiation over limit for ' Exempt '5/7/80 status.
'Apr 28-May 2 21 5
5/2 Company 7b Shipping papers; defective 5/5/80 closure 4/29 Company 17a No ' sole use' instructions 5/5/80 4/28 Company 17e Defective closure 4/28/80 5/14/80 4/28 Company 20a Containers not marked 'LSA' 5/5/80 4/28 Company 12 No 1. D. on ' sole use' instruc-5/5/80 tions.
May 5-9 14 0
May 11-16 22 S
S/16 Company 20 Package deformation 5/20/80 5/30/80 S/13 Company 3h No 'LSA' marking 5/20/80 5/14 Company 27 No certification 5/20/80 5/16 Company 5 not indicated ' sole use' 5/20/80 S/16 Company 26b no placarding; not indicated 5/20/80
' sole use' 5/12 Company 28 hole in drum 5/20/80
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May 19-23 May 27-30 21 2
5/28 Company 29 No 7A DOT marking on drum 6/2/80 5/27 Company 17a Top not secure (Argonne bin) 5/28/80 6/16/80 June 2-6 15 5
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BROKERS AND COMPANIES t
Company Number 1
AWC, Inc. (broker) for 1(a) la Aerojet Ordance 2
Burroughs Wellcome (broker for 2a) 2a University of Kentucky
'3 Nuclear Engineering Company (broker for 3a-31) 3a Michael Reese Hospital & Medical Center 3b Amersham 3c Abbott Labs 3d Upjohn Company 3e William Beaumont Hospital 3f University of Toledo 3g Lafayette Clinic 3h Exxon 31 Research Triangle Institute 4
Smith, Kline & French Labs, Inc.
5 Radiac Research 6
Nebraska Public Power (Cooper Nuclear)
.7a Southwest Nuclear Company 7b Southwest Nuclear Company, Eastern Division 8
Nuclear Diagnostic Labs 9
Wyoming Mineral Corporation 10 University of Montana 11 University of Minnesota y,
Campr.ny Numbsr 12 Tc.ledyne Isotopes 13 TMI - Metro Edison 14 Northern States Power 15 NEN 16 VA Medical Center,' Nashville 17a Commonwealth Edison, Quad Cities 17b Commonwealth Edison, Zion
'17e Commonwealth Edison, Dresden 18 Three M Company 19 Ralph Baltzo & Associates 20 Atomic Disposal 20a Honeywell, Inc.
21 (Bio Science Lab)
Thomas Gray & Associates 22 Vermont Yankee 23 EAD Metallurgical, Inc.
24 Nuclear Sources & Services 25 ICN, CA 26 Department of Army 26a-Defense Depot, Ogden, Utah 26b Letterman Army Institute 27 GE Medical Systems Division 28 University of Illinois, Urbana 29 State University of New Yo'rk at Buffalo i
30 National Jewish. Hospital u
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ATTACIDENT B Shipments of radioactive waste received at the NECo site during the week of May 19, 1980 through May 23, 1980 were from the following:
Date Received Shipper / Broker Carrier Packages 5/20/80 Zion Home 70 5/20/80 CWE Cordova TSMT 45 5/20/80 Trojan TSMT 3 casks 5/20/80 Teledyne TSMT 167 5/20/80 Atomic Disposal TSMT 152 5/20/80 Army VA (Virginia)
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1 box Cameron 5/20/80 Interex TSMT 198 5/20/80 CWE Dresden TSMT 75 5/21/80 CWE Dresden TSMT 75 5/22/80 Hazelton Laboratories SW Nucs 153 Southwest Nuclear 5/22/80 Palisades TSMT 133 & 1 box 5/23/80 Southwest Nuclear Home 184 5/23/80 Carolina Power & Light TSMT Chem Nuclear 150 4
ATTACHMEiT C 1.
This section '
.ttae'. ment C identifies the f acilities contacted in the e* ate for det mination of potential radiological hazards to handlers of radioactive mater * ;1s. Follow-up innpections are planned during the next quarter on a selected number of facilities contacted.
A.
Ho _ t.is Contacted (telephone) 1.
Allenmore Hospital - Tacoma, Washington 2.
Highline Community College - Edmonds, Washington 3.
Kadlec Hospital - Richland, Washington 4.
Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital - Kenneuick, Washington 5.
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Hospital - : eattle, Washington 6.
St. Lukes Hospital - Spokane, Washington 7.
Walla Walla College - Walla Walla, Washington 8.
Walla Walla General Hospital - Walla Walla, Washington 9.
St. Mary Hospital - Walla Walla, Washington B.
Shipping Ports Contacted (telephone) 1.
Port of Olympf- - Olympia, Washington 2.
Port of Bell.ngham - Bellingham, Washington 3.
Port of Vancouver - Vancouver, Washington C.
Burlington Northern Railway - Seattle, Washington 1.
Truck Division 2.
Rail Division 3.
South Seattle Piggy Back Division D.
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard - Bremerton, Washington i
II.
This section identifies facit tics visited and/or inspected during the third quarter period.
Initit inspections and return visits were made to some of the air cargo carr. ers operating in and around the Seattle-Tacoma area. Area, vehicle,.nd package surveys were accomplished as appropriate for the facilitics visited. Additional details are as follows:
A.
Air Cargo Carriers Visits Airport Drayage Company, Inc.
3 Alaska Airlines 2
Burlington Northern Air Freight 1
Eastern Air Cargo 3
Emery Air Freight 1
Flying Tiger Lines 2
Hughes Air West 3
Northwest Air Freight 1
Wein Air Alaska 1
Western Air Cargo 1
Surveillance visits to Burlington Northern Air Freight, Emery Air Freight and Vein Air Alaska, indicates no material handling to very low volumes of radio-active materials being handled. Initial contacts were made and it was deter-mined that potential radiological exposure problems to cargo handling personnel were very minimal. Routine revisits, to the three above mentioned f reight handlers are not planned for the immediate future. The companies will be sched-uled for contacts or revisits on a aemiannual basis for further determination of quantities of radioactive materials being handled.
Surveillance visits to other air cargo carriers listed above found minimal quaatities of radioactive materials being handled by some companies with other companies handling RAM packages on a routine basis. Details from our findings and/or observations at the other cargo handling facilities are outlined below.
1.
Airport Drayage Company, Inc.
This company handles a large amount of packages containing radio-active materials. A greater portion of their packages are ship-ments coming from Mallinckrodt Company, St. Louis, Missouri.
Air-port Drayage operates as a private carrier for radioactive materials received. The following conditions were noted during this invest-igation.
a.
Radioactive material (R. A.M.) packages were found in the open bed of'a pickup truck. Packages were labeled yellow II and yellow III. No placards had been placed on the trucks exterior, however, signs stating " radioactive" were located within the truck.
b.
Holding area for RAM or' restricted articles not defined. Pack-ages containing RAM were mixed with other packages without re-gard to hazard.
A stack of empty cardboard containers displaying various RAM c.
inSels were noted to be stacked in the package handling area.
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Two packages from Mallinckrodt Diagnostics were surveyed.
bill #2480-3100 package contained 143 millicuries of (1)
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The yellow III label indicated a 1.4 T.I.
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131 (2) Air bill #2665-6593 package contained 1 millicurie of 7,
The yellow II label indicated a 0.1 T.I.
Both packages (1 and 2) were in compliance with D.O.T. and state regulations.
An independant survey of the packages supported the labeling information.
2.
Alaska Air Lines Alaska Air has frequent shipments of radioactive materials (RAM) to key cities in Alaska, mainly, Fairbanks, Juneau and Anchorage.
Generally, all RAM packages are handled in the mornings, on a daily basis, between 6:30 a.m. and 8:00 a.m.
A survey of one RAM package labeled yellow III containing 2.393 curies of Molybdenum 99 showed no violations of DOT packaging requirements.
3.
Eastern Air Cargo Eastern Air receives a constant flow of radioactive material pack-ages. Most of the packages arrive early in the morning between 5:00 a.m. and 6:30 a.m.
A general area radiation survey was made with no indications of readings in excess of background. Other surveys of packages with no violations detected or observed included the following:
Yellow III package containing 5 curies of Molybdenum 99 with a.
label. showing a T.I. of 4.4.
131I and a T.I.
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Yellow II package containing 0.031 curies of of 0.6.
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Flying Tiger Lines No radioactive materials were being handled or stored at the time of the survey.
It was determined that a significant quantity of packages are handled during the month.
Continued visits are planned in order to develop the data needed.
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Hughes Air West Surveys were made on four packages of radioactive material with no violations observed or detected.
A yellow II labeled package containing Iodine 131 with a T.I.
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A yellow II package containing Gallium 67 with a T.I. of 0.1..
A yellow III package containing Mo99 with a T.I. of 2.3.
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A second yellow III package containing Mo99 with a T.I. of 2.3.
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Northwest Air Freight From information obtained during this visit their radioactive materials handling activities have been very limited. Packages are received as regular freight and treated accordingly. Labeling and packaging are considered by Northwest Air Freight to be enrrect since the shippers are required to know the regulations.
The state inspector was advised by a representative of Northwest Air Freight 'that they are responsible ohly to F. A. A. regarding the proper handling of restricted articles.
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Western Air Cargo Only limited nu=bers of radioactive material (RAM) packages are received. Packages are handled as restricted articles in holding area designated by a sign. No security for RAM packages is pro-vided. Survey equipment on hand at Western Air Cargo had been supplied by FAA, but apparently Western Air personnel do not routinely use the meters.
Packages containing RAM are usually loaded for transport shortly af ter receipt.
No RAM packages were available for surveying during this inspection.
B.
Hospitals Inspected The nuclear medicine departments of the hospitals listed as 1 through 3 below were surveyed and inspected with no labeling, shipping or packaging violations being observed or detected.
1.
Auburn General Hospital - Auburn, Washington 2.
Swedish Hospital - Seattle, Washington 3.
University of Washington Hospital - Seattle, Washington i
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University of ' Washington - Radioactive Waste Procedures During an inspection at the U of W, two items were observed that required corrective measures. The University has a rad waste compactor located in a building near central campus with their rad waste storage area approximately two miles away.
In order to transfer rad waste from the compactor to the storage area the material is moved over public streets. The University vehicle transferring the waste has not routinely been placarded. The placarding deficiency has been corrected.
In addition, the University transports all of their generated rad waste to the Nuclear Engineering Company site in Richland for burial. The University has been negligent in the past in not designating their L.S.A. shipments as sole use.
The University agreed to adding the sole use designation to their RSR as future shipments are prepared.
D.
Highway Patrol Weigh Station The weigh station at Plymouth, Washington and the station on I-90 east of Spokane, Washington, were visited this quarter. During our visits we discussed procedures followed by the patrolmen while surveying trailers transporting radioactive materials and methods for documenting survey information. The use and care of civil defense type survey meters was also discussed. At both stations the highway patrolmen had available for use the CD700 and CD715 survey meters furnished by the Lepartment of Emergency Services. The meters were checked and appeared to be operating properly at the time of our visit.
The weigh stations at Plymouth and Spokane are the only two stations available for checking radioactive material (RAM) shipments coming to Washington from out of state. All vehicles hauling RAM have to be inspected at one of the weigh stations prior to being accepted at the NECo site. The vehicle driver produces the inspection certificate upon arrival at the sdte as part of the shipments preacceptance procedure.
E.
Shipping Ports During this quarter the Port of Seattle and three piers uere visited.
It was determined that radioactive materials (RAM) were so rarely
' loaded and unloaded at any of the Port of Seattle piers that dock workers were not being expcsed to excessive quantities of radiation.
No RAM packages or containers uere being handled or stored at any pier inspected during this quarter. Revisits for the purpose of data gathering and/or surveillance purposes is planned during the next quarter. Dock areas visited:
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F. ' Ralph Baltzo and Associates (Broker)
A shipment of radioactive waste being transported from Seattle to the NECo Richland site by Ralph 3altzo was inspected prior to leaving the highway patrol operations office cast of Seattle on I-90.
Radiation measurements were obtained while using a Technical Associates Model CP-5 survey meter and wipe sampics were measured with a Johnson GSM-5 end window' Geiger counter. Of the 30 drums on the load, none were reading in excess of 12 mR/hr at 3" from the side of any drum positioned for surveying. At six f eet from the sides of the trailer a maximum radiation reading of 0.5 mR/hr was obtained. A radiation reading of 0.5 mR/hr was measured in the truck cab. No smearabic contamination ( 100c/m) was detected on wipe samples taken from 10 different drums.
In addition, drum labeling, vehicle placarding, and radiation shipment records were. inspected. No violations of DOT or Washington State radiation control regulatTons were observed. Mr. Baltzo 's shipment of radioactive waste was permitted to proceed to Richland after passing a vehicle saf ety check performed by State Patrol.
G.
Uranium Mills Inspections were made at both uranium mills in the State to determine radiation readings and labeling on drums of yellow cake. Our findings are as follows:
1.
Dawn Mining Company - Ford, Washington Dawn Mining Company had on hand and ready for shipping 52 drums of yellow cake at the time of this inspection. Our observations and survey indicated proper labeling and no single 55 gallon drum i
reading in excess of 5 mR/hr on drum surface. No violations were observed.
A stockpile of empty drums awaiting filling were examined.
It appears that Dawn Mining does not specify a certain type drum required when order is placed with supplier. Drums on hand were noted to be type 17-H; 7-A; 7J; or drums with no visible markings.
All 55 gallon drums inspected appeared to be in excellent shape.
2.
Western Nuclear Company - Wellpinit, Washington Packaged yellow cake in 55 gallon drums were inspected at Western Nuclear Company. Our findings and observations indicated that all labeling requirements were being met and radiation readings at the drum surfaces were not in excess of 5 mR/hr. No violations were observed.
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