ML20058A688
| ML20058A688 | |
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| Site: | 07105364 |
| Issue date: | 06/21/1982 |
| From: | Ransohoff J NEUTRON PRODUCTS, INC. |
| To: | Welt M RTI, INC. (FORMERLY RADIATION TECHNOLOGY, INC.) |
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| 20899, NUDOCS 8207190489 | |
| Download: ML20058A688 (4) | |
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I am writing in response to your letter of June 7,1982. Since receiving this letter I have reviewed the facts with those of our employees who were involved in the shipment. To the best of my knowledge, the facts are as presented below.
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The number of sources contained in the shipment, per our April 20, 1982 memo, was based on the information we were given by your West Memphis plant manager.
I have Icarned that this figure was calculated by subtracting the number of sources of each type determined by Radiation Technology' to be remaining at West Memphis after the cask was loaded, from the number of sources of each type determined by Radiation Technology to be present a,t West Memphis before the cask was loaded. Neither your people nor ours counted the number of sources of each type which were placed in the cask.
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In unloading and reloading our shipping container in Dickerson we undertook a concerted effort to assure that all sources removed from the container were returned to the container, and we have every reason to believe that we suc-ceeded in that objective. Unfortunately, our efforts to document that fact only add to the confusion in that we counted 109 C-188 pencils removed from the container, and 109 C-188 pencils returned to the container, but in count-ing the sources in the holders in which they were temporarily placed, we counted only 108 C-188 pencils. At no point did we count 107 C-188 pencils (as you say we did in your June 7,1982 letter), so we are unable to confirm your count in any respect.
In addition, we counted 52 GE capsules removed from the container, and 52 GE capsules returned to the container, but only counted 51 GE capsules when they were in holders. Therefore, although we verified at Dickerson the calculated numbers received from your West Memphis plant in both the removal of sources from the cask, and the return of sources to the cask, our total was only 159 (108 C-188's and 51 GE) sources in between these activities.
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Dr. b!artin A. Welt Radiation Technology, Inc.
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In view of the discrepancy in the count of sources at Dickerson we undertook a concerted effort to locate any sources which might have been misplaced.
There aren't that many possibilities, and we have not located any additional sources here. Also we re-examined our cask to check once again that no sources are hidden in any of the tubes, and can assure you that there are not. Accord-ingly, we have no reason to believe that we failed to deliver to Rockaway any of the sources we picked up at West blemphis.
If you wou,1d send us a list of serial numbers of the sources in, the shipment, we would be pleased, in the course of our next full inventory to be alert to the possibility that one or more of these sources may have indeed been mis-placed.
In,the interim, please be advised that the lik'elihood that one of your sourcc5 is here is remote, and undertake to review your records to see if you can resolve the discrepancy within your own company.
Although we do not believe there is any discrepancy between what was loaded in the cask at West blemphis and removed and reloaded at Dickerson, by copy of this letter we are, in accordance with your suggestion, notifying the Nucicar Regulatory Commis-sion of the potential discrepancy.
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RTI Letter dated 6/7/82 NPI blemo, dated 4/20/82 b!r. Bernard Bevill, St. of Arkansas b!r. Robert E. Corcoran, St. of b!D, DHMit d!r.Charlesb!cDonnell,NRC b!r. Carmine Smedira, NPI b!r. b!arvin Turkanis, hPI i
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b' P. O. BOX 185,108 LAKE DENM ARK ROAD, ROCKf.V/AY, N. J. 07866 L-(201) 625-8400 CERTIFIED MAIL #P30 3554108 June 7, 1982 Mr. Jack Ransohof f, President Neutron Products, Inc.
22301 Mt. Ephraim Road Dickerson, Maryland 20753
Dear Jack:
We wish to advise you that we have now re-counted the number of sources delivered to us on Friday, thy 28, 1982, and have confirmed that there are only 107 AECL C-188 pencils. This is two pencils less than were supposed to have been delivered in accordance with your letter dated April 20, 1982, which indicated that you were shipping 109 AECL C-188 pencils from our West Memphis f acility to our plant in Rockaway, New Jersey.
I had mentioned the apparent discrepancy to Marvin Turkanis during our last telephone conversation, and he confirmed that prior to reloading the cask for shipment to our facility, three counts were made, and he indicated that there were 109, 109 and on the final count, only 107. We 'hereby request tiiat you locate the two pencils and make delivery at the same time that you plan,' to pick up your demineralizer.
Since these pencils were to have been delivered at the time of the final shipment, we would suggest that you make arrangements to unload the sources in our R&D pool, utilizing your A-frame hoist which you were going to'use in 1978 to deliver the 12 pencils that were finally delivered on May 28, 1982. '
We will assume that you will notify any of the app opriate authorities concerning the discrepancy in the shipping papers as agai[st what was delivered.
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9 April 20, 1982 To Whom It May Concern:
Neutron Produc'ts is shipping 161 sources (109 AECL type CISS and 52 GE type GEP916) from Radiation Technology's West Memphis, Arkansas facility to Radiation Techn' logy's Rockaway, New Jersey facility, incidental to the o
delivery of approximately 1,100,000 curies of Neutron Product's produced cobalt-60 to Radiation Technology's West Memphis facility.
Dr. Welt of Radiation Technology advises that they are licensed to possess these sources at the Rockaway facility.
Radiation Technology has deter:nined that these sources are leak free, based on the measurement of the activity of the water in the storage pool at their West Memphis facility, per Dr. Welt.
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