ML20217B207
| ML20217B207 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Dresden  |
| Issue date: | 08/30/1978 |
| From: | Liza Cunningham, Higginbotham L NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE) |
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| References | |
| PNO-78-156, NUDOCS 9804220446 | |
| Download: ML20217B207 (2) | |
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PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION I
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August 30, 1978 l
PRELItilNARY NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE--PNO-78-156 l
l This preliminary notification constitutes EARLY notice of an event of POSSIBLE safety or public interest significance.
The information presented is as initially received without verification or evaluation _
and is basically all that is known by IE staff on this date.
Fa cili ty_:
Commonwealth Edison Company, Dresden, Units 1, 2 and 3 (DNs 50-10, 50-237, 50-249) Morris, Illinois
Subject:
TRANSPORTATION ACCIDENT A shipment of solidified (cement) radwaste enroute from the Dresden site, Morris, Illinois to the Chem Nuclear burial ground near Barnwell, South Carolina overturned at approximately 12:30 p.m. (8/29/78) at the intersection of I 59 and I 24 in Georgia near Chattanooga, Tennessee.
The shipment consisted of 18 individual 55-gallon steel drums loaded in a radwaste shipping cask.
Radiation levels exterior to the cask were less than 100 mR/hr on departure from the Dresden site.
The individual
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The truck dri'ver was not injured and there was no damage to the cask nor
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Traffic was blocked s
leakage of radioactive material from the shipment.
Survey teams from Oak Ridge, the on the interstate for several hours.
i State of Georgia and TVA's Sequoyah facility responded and found no radio-I logical problem.i.
The Region II (Atlanta) office was notified at approximately 2:30 p.m.
by Region III (Chicago).
Region Il notified the States of Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama.
Commonwealth Edison Company has not determined whether a press releaseNo will be issued. TVA plans to hold a press conference this morning.
press release is planned by Region III.
Region II has responded to several inquiries from the local news media.
Region III received notification of this occurrence from the Dresden onsite inspector at 2:00 p.m. on August 29, 1978.
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Contact:
LJCunningham, IE x28188 LBHigginbotham, IE x28098 Distribution:
Transmitted H St /A:1 9 Chairman if57idrie Commissioner Bradford S. J. Chilk, SECY Comissioner Kennedy Comissioner Ahearne C. C. Kammerer, CA Comissioner Gilinsky (ForDistribution)
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