ML20151U538
| ML20151U538 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 06/14/1977 |
| From: | Bidinger G, Higginbotham L, Roy G NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE) |
| To: | |
| References | |
| PNO-77-102, NUDOCS 9809110039 | |
| Download: ML20151U538 (2) | |
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PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION p
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PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE--PN This preliminary notification constitutes EARLY notice of an event of POSSIBLE safet.y or public interest significance.
The information preser.ted is as initially received without verification or evaluation
_and is basically all that is known by IE staff on this date.
Facility: Three Mile Island Unit 1 (DN 50-289)
Middletown. Pennsylvania Subj ect:
WATER LEAK FROM LOW LEVEL SOLIDIFIED RADIOACTIVE SHII' PING 3
CONTAINER DURING SHIPMENT At a rest stop on Interstate 80, between Exits 28 and 29, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, the driver of a truck containing eight, fifty cubic foot containers of low level solidified radioactive waste noticed water dripping from the truck. The leak was described as a "small drip." The shipment was being made by Nuclear Engineering. Company under contract to the Reactor Licensee and originated at Three Mile Island Unit No. 1 on the afternoon of June 13, 1977.
After notification of the problem at 9:10 p.m., NRC Region I dispatched two inspectors to the truck stop at 9:50 p.m.
The licensee and the Common-wealth of Pennsylvania also dispatched personnel.
l The leak occurred at a weld crack on one container. The veld was temporarily patched and the truck was returned to Three Mile Island under escort, arriving at 4:00 a.m., June 14, 1977.
Surveys of the truck by Region I personnel indicated minimal contamination levels.
Four (4) small wet spots at the location of the parked truck were cleaned up.
Residual fixed contamination was 0.15 mrad /hr. Measurements tsken along the truck path in the rest stop area showed no contamination-Media interest is expected because of close attention given by the Press
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and the public to incidents involving shipment of radioactive materials.
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania has been informed.
DOT will be notified.
A. press release is not planned.
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-w Continued June 14, 1977 NRC, Region I, (Philadelphia) received notification of this occurrence by telephone from the Unit 1 Superintendent at Three Mile Island at 9:10 p.m.,
on June 13, 1977.
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Contact:
GHBidinger, IE x27353 LBHigginbotham, IE x27347 CWRoy,IE x27261
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Commissioner Kennedy S. J. Chilk, SECY H. H. Whiteside, SCNR Commissioner Gilinsky
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