ML19331C147
| ML19331C147 | |
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| Site: | 07000568 |
| Issue date: | 08/10/1979 |
| From: | Seyfrit K NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
| To: | Brigham Young University, PROVO, UT |
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August 10, 1979 Sdn - 597 eHIGMAN YOUNG UNIVERSITY HRQVU UT 8se02 Gen:lemen:
l Enclosed is II Bulletin No. 79-19, which requiras ac:ica by you sith regard to your NRC license.
Should you have questions regardicg this Bulletin or thq actions required of you, please contact this office.
Sincerely, f' I s'k y. fL*,. A Karl V. Sey:,r:.c Director s
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UNITF.D STATES NUCI. EAR REGUI.ATORY COMMISSION OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT WASHINGTON, D.C.
20555 IE Bulletin No. 79-19 Date:
August 10, 1979 Page 1 of 3 PACKAGING OF LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE FOR TRANSPORT AND BURIAL Description of Circumstances:
Low-level radioactive waste is that waste which can be transferred and shipped to one of three waste burial facilities which are located in and licensed by the Agreement States of Nevada, South Carolina, and Washington. On July 10, 1979, the Governors of the three states notified NRC Chairman Hendrie of the serious and repeated disregard for rules governing the shipments of low-level radioactive wastes to these burial facilities.
Examples of violations of Agreement State, DOT and NRC rules follow:
Improperly packaged uranium fines igniting pacLaged liquid scintillation vials in combustible waste is believed to have caused a fire and destruction of a truck at the Beatty, Nevada burial facility on May 14, 1979.
On July 2, 1979, three of twelve steel containers shipped to the Beatty burial facility were found to be leaking radioac*.ive material. The material was described on the bill of lading as being a solid inorganic salt (evaporator cor.centrates solidified with urea formaldehyde) from a reactor facility. The Governor of the State of Nevada ordered the drums to be shipped out of the state and the burial facility was temporarily closed.
On July 30, the first shipment into the reopened Beatty facility contained free liquid in " solid" aaterial. The radioactive contents were sand filters used at an insitu leaching process at a uranium mill.
I Forty-three shipments with sixty-three deficiencies were observed during the package inspection program between April 10 and July 5,1979, by the Agreement State of South Carolina, at the Barnwell, South Carolina burial facility. The shipments were from reactor, medical, industrial and military facilities.
On June 28, 1979, the Federal Highway Administration issued a Notice of Violatica to a reactor facilit; proponing a $10,000 fine for truck contamina-tion resulting from improper closures an 55 gallon drums of LSA material and for improper loading of the drums on the vehicle.
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