ML20236F026
| ML20236F026 | |
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| Issue date: | 12/16/1976 |
| From: | Roy G, Thompson D, Warnick R NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE) |
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| References | |
| PNO-76-221, NUDOCS 9807010339 | |
| Download: ML20236F026 (1) | |
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j December 16, 1976 PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE--PNO-76-221 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.
Facility: Wayne State University Detroit, Michigan License No. 21-741-08 Subjects SPILL OF PHOSPHORUS-32 RESULTS IN CONTAMINATION OF SHOES
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AND FLOORS IN BASIC MEDICAL Sr.IENCE BUILDING The licensee informed Region III (Chicago) by telephone on December 16, 1976, that a liquid spill occurred in a biochem laboratory in Scott Hall on December 14, 1976. The spilled liquid contained an estimated ten to
.a twenty millicuriesiof phosphorus-32. The spill which was reported to the licensee's health physics personnel on December 15, 1976.
Initial assessment by the licensee indicates the biochem lab, adjacent hallways and elevators were contaminated. Airborne radioactivity concentrations
.f are reported to be'vell below 10 CFR Part 20 limits. Bioassay samples f
analyzed up tODecember 16, 1976, indicate no internal contamination of personnel has oc~clifrjd. : Approximately. forty.$ airs [of[s5oes.have E e~n3 -
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found to be co5Edisinated. The biochem lab and adjacent hallways have" i
been closed and decontamination is in progress.
The licensee reported there has been no publicity on this matter. The State of Michigan has been informed.
Region III has dispatched two radiation specialists to the site.
IE:III was informed of this event via telephone at 8:30 a.m. on December 16, 1976.
Contact:
RFWarnick, IE.x27261 GWRc,y,
IE x27261 DThompson, IE x27541 Distribution:
Chairman __Rowden Commissioner Mason S. J. Chilk, SECY I
Commissioner Gilinsky C. C. Kammerer, CA G. F. Murphy, JCAE I
Commissioner Kennedy L. V. Gossick, EDO K. R. Chapman, NMSS R. G. Ryan, OSP S. H. Hanauer, EDO E. Volgenau, OIE J. A. Harris, PA B. C. Rusche, NRR H. K. Shapar, ELD T. J. McTiernan, OIA
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