ML19330B816
| ML19330B816 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Brunswick  |
| Issue date: | 08/01/1980 |
| From: | Stello V NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE) |
| To: | Jackie Jones CAROLINA POWER & LIGHT CO. |
| Shared Package | |
| ML19330B817 | List: |
| References | |
| EA-80-041, EA-80-41, NUDOCS 8008070025 | |
| Download: ML19330B816 (2) | |
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Docket Nos: 50-325 i
50-324 EA-80-41 Carolina Power and Light Company ATTH: J. A. Jones Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer 411 Fayetteville Street Raleigh, NC 27602 Gentlemen:
During an inspection on April 28, 1980, an NRC Region II inspector discovered licensed material from your Brunswick facility improperly disposed of at the Brunswick County sanitary landfill near Southport, North Carolina.
Subse-quently, other items contaminated with licensed radioactive material were found to have been sold by the Carolina Power and Light Company to salvage dealers in Wilmington and Goldsboro, North Carolina.
This breakdown of con-tamination control measures at the Brunswick facility was discussed with you by telephone on April 28 and May 2, 1980, by James P. O'Reilly, Director of our Region II office.
The results of this conversation and our understanding of your planned corrective actions were also discussed in letters to you from James P. O'Reilly dated April 29 and May 2, 1980.
Your initial corrective actions were confirmed by our onsite inspection personnel.
The improper disposal of licensed material in a sanitary landfill and th,e release of radioactively contaminated scrap to salvage dealers indicate a serious breakdown in your control of radioactively contaminated material at the Brunswick facility.
Weaknesses in the radioactive contamination survey practices at this facility resulted in the improper transfer of contaminated trash and scrap to unrestricted areas on at least sixteen occasions from mid-1978 through April 1980.
Although the actual quantities of radioactive material found in unrestricted areas were relatively small, the public health and safety could have been adversely affected had some of these articles found their way into personal use in the private sector.
The factors which contributed to the improper disposal of licensed material coupled with~the failure of workers to employ proper techniques in the use of anti-contamination clothing and self monitoring practices, indicate a breakdown in the implementation and management of your radiation protection program.
CERTIFIED MAIL RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED 8008070.OS$
AUG 1 1980 Carolina Power and Light Company.
Therefore, we propos'b to impose;c.ivil, penalties for the items of noncompliance set forth in Appendix A to this letter in a total amount of Eighty-Nine Thousand Dollars.
Appendix B to'this' letter is a Notice of Pr5 posed Imposition of Civil Penalties..You are required to raspond to this letter and in preparing your response you should follow the instructions in Appendices A and B.
In accordance with Section 2.790 of the NRC's " Rules of Practice," Part 2, Title 10,. Code of Federal Regulations, a copy of this letter and the enclosures will be placed in the Commission's Public Document Room.
Sincerely, 2)
Af Victor Ste lo, J.,
Director Office of Inspection and Enforcement
Enclosures:
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Appendix A - Notice of Violation 2.
Appendix B - Notice of Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalties cc w/ enc 1:
A. C. To111 son, Jr.
Plant Manager Box 458 Southport, N.C.
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