ML20155F024
| ML20155F024 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Yankee Rowe |
| Issue date: | 09/30/1988 |
| From: | Ronald Bellamy NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
| To: | Drawbridge B YANKEE ATOMIC ELECTRIC CO. |
| Shared Package | |
| ML20155F028 | List: |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8810130098 | |
| Download: ML20155F024 (2) | |
See also: IR 05000029/1988019
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Docket No. 50-29
Yankee Atomic Electric Company
ATTN:
Mr. Bruce L. Drawbridge
Vice President and Manager
of Operations
1671 Worcester Road
Framingham, Massachusetts 01701
Gentlemen:
Subject:
Inspection No. 50-029/88-19
This refers to the reactive safety inspection conducted by Mr. J. Furia of
this office on hptember 9,1988 of two shipments of radioactive waste from
the Yankee Nuclear Power Station to the burial site at Barnwell, South
Carolina.
Discussion of the findings of this report was held by Mr. Furia
with Mr. T. Henderson and others of your staff at the conclusion of the
inspection.
Areas examined during the inspection are described in the NRC Region I
Inspection Report which is enclosed with tnis letter.
Based upon results of
this inspection, it appears your procedures were not adequate to ensure that
maximum allowable: contamination levels as set forth in 10 CFR 71.87 were not
exceeded during transport.
Surwy results indicate contamination levels as
high as 61,000 dpm/100 cm2 on one cask, and as high as 122,000 dpm/100 cm2 on
the second cask. We request that you review the circumstances surrounding
this event and your procedures to ensure that regulatory limits on
contamination levels are not exceeded during transport. We further request
that you provide to us in writing within 30 days of the date of this letter
the results of this review.
Within the scope of this inspection, no violations or deviations were observed.
Your coopeiation with us in this matter is appreciated.
Sincerely,
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