ML20217G479
| ML20217G479 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 04/08/1980 |
| From: | Alderson C NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
| To: | NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
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| FOIA-97-256 NUDOCS 9708070274 | |
| Download: ML20217G479 (2) | |
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{ %*****, ATL.ANTA.of oRotA 30303 APR 8 1983 NEMORANDUM FOR: Case File 2E8 FROM:
C. E. Alderson, Senior Regional Investigator SUltIECT:
TELEPHONE INTERVIEW OF RICHARD IWIDEN
- 1. REASON FOR INTERVIEW The U. S. Department of Justice informed the NRC that Mr. Hayden's name had been provided to them as someone who could possibly support the allegations made by Susan Byers Lott.
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SUMMARY
OF INTERVIEW j
On April 8,1980, Hr. Hayden, a former employee of Home Transportation, '
cont. acted me by telephone in res o a message I had left during a telephone call to his residence earlier in the day. After I identified myself and explained the I wanted to t.alk to him, Mr. Hayden provided the following information.
BuRIAt OF LloulDS Mr. Hayden stated that he had no knowledge of the burial of radioactive liquids at Chem-huclear's Barnwell site. He stated that occasionally drums with
" rainliquid on top of the lid were buried, but he identified this liquid as water." He indicated that he was personally aware that shipments had been refused and returned by ihem-Nuclear to the shipper in Texas because the shipments had been found not to be completely solidified.
BURIAL OF SPENT FUEL Hr. Hayden stated that he had no knowledge of shipments to or burial of spent fuel at Chem-Nuclear's Barnwell disposal site. He indirectly expressed amazement . at aoecone believed such a thing.
BURIAL OF SPECIAL NUCLEAR MATERIAL Hr. Hayden stated that he knew personally that Chem-Nuclear had turned away (refused) shipments which contained too much Uranium-235 and that the shipments were forwarded to Richland, Washington or Beatty, Nevada. He did not identify the shippers or the transport companies involved.
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w * *- E Case File 2E8 DOT REQUIREMENTS Mr. Hayden stated that the only violations of DOT regulations of which he was aware were shipments which were found upon arrival at Chem-Nuclear to exceed the limits on external radiation levels for over-the-road shipments.
However, he stated that as far as he knew Chem-Nuclear properly reported -
these findings to DOT and SC-DHEC. He stated he believed the-sources of
.these shipmenta to be the Zion Nuclear Plant (Zion, Illinois) and the Brunswick Nuclear Plant (Southport, North Carolina).
SILVER BULLET AND " SMOKING MOTOR" Mr. Hayden stated th'at the cask he knew as the " silver bullet" was man'u-factured by National Welding _in New London, Connecticut. I asked if he meant National Lead and he said."No. National Welding.d He said the cask was manufactured for ANESCO (Spelling?), but was the subject of several law suits, had never been used and he believed that it is setting on the " turbine deck at Millstone." He indicated that Mrs. Lott may have mistaken the
" Peach Bottoc cask" owned by Tri-State, which he thinks was a National Lead cask, for the " silver bullet" because they are sin 11ar in appearance. He said the Peach Botton cask had a wire mesh cage over it when transported.
With regard to the smoking motor, Mr. Hayden stated that he had never seen a cask with a cooling motor. He pointed out that some Hittman and Chem-Nuclear casks have hydraulic or electric scif-loaders, but agreed that these would not be. running while in transit. He also stated that Chem-Nuclear used to accept be radioactive shipped carcasses in refrigerated vans.from research facilities which would normally OTHER INFORMATION When asked if he was aware of any illegal or improper burials at Chem-Nuclear's Barnwell disposal site, Mr. Hayden described the following incident.
Sometime in 1979, but definitely before November 18, 1979, (his termination date) he and Charles Kilby, a. Homes Transportation Vice President, entered the Chem-Nuclear sise. Mr. Hayden stated that he observed the Peach Botton cask hanging vertically over a trench "toward the entrance to the site" and Mr. Toner hollered for them to get away. Mr. Hayden stated he did not know what was in the cask, nor did he esk, but that it ::ust have been highly radioactive. The presence of highly radioactive material would not violate NRC requirements; however this information was passed on to the Assistant Attorney General for South Carolina.
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