ML20249B605
| ML20249B605 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 06/16/1976 |
| From: | Roy G, Galen Smith, Thompson D NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE) |
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| References | |
| PNO-76-100, NUDOCS 9806230366 | |
| Download: ML20249B605 (1) | |
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_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.
Subject:
BURIAL OF URANIUM ORE RESIDUES IN COUNTY LAND FILL AREA During an April 1974 inspection of the licensee's Hazelwood, Missouri, uranium ore residue processing operations, IE:III was advised by licensee personnel that during the period of July-October 1973, about 8700 tons of leached barium sulfate containing about seven tons of natural uranium (0.08% by weight) had been scooped up for disposal with approximately 39,000 tons of soil from the Hazelwood site and deposited under about 100 feet of refuse and earth at the St. Louis, Missouri country sanitary landfill area No. 1.
It was reportcd by the 1icensee that the concentration of uranium diluted by the scooped up soil, at the time of burial was 0.0001%, by weight, which is less'than licenseable l
quantities (0.05% by weight).
In a letter dated June 2, 1976, from the State of Missouri Department l
of Natural Resources (DNR) to Region III (Chicago), information was pre-I sented to the effect that the uranium had not been diluted with soil prior to burial and was not deposited under 100 feet of overburden in St. Louis County landfill area No. 1, but at another landfill area. The information furnished by the Department of Natural Resources had been developed by a reporter from the St. Louis Post Dispatch and has received significant coverage in the St. Louis area.
Based on the information supplied by DNR, a full investigation is being initiated by Region III.
Contact:
GSmith, IE x27261 GWRoy, IE x27261 DThompson, IE x27541 l
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_ Distribution _ :
I Chairman Rowden Commissioner Mason S. J. Chilk, SECY Commissioner Gilinsky C. C. Kammerer, CA G. F. Murphy, JCAE Commissioner Kennedy i
L. V. Gossick, EDO E. Volgenau, OIE J. A. Harris, PA l
B. C. Rusche, NRR J. La Fleur, ISP T. J. McTiernan, AIA K. R. Chapman, NMSS H. K. Shapar, ELD
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BURIAL OF URANIUM ORE RESIDUES IN COUNTY LAND FILL AREA During an April 1974 inspection of the licensee's Hazelwood, Missouri, uranium ore residue processing operations, IE:III was advised by licensee personnel that during the period of July-October 1973, about 8700 tons of leached barium sulfate containing about seven tons of natural uranium (0.08% by weight) had been scooped up for disposal with approximately 39,000 tons of soil from the Hazelwood site and deposited under about 100 feet of refuse and earth at the St. Louis, Missouri country sanitary landfill area No. 1.
It was reported by th6 licensee that the concentration of uranium diluted by the scooped up soil, at t.he time of burial was 0.0001%, by weight, which is less than licenseable t
quantities (0.05% by weight).
In a letter dated June 2, 1976, from the State of Missouri Department of Natural Ret W rces (DNR) to Region III (Chicago), information was pre-i sented to the effect that the uranium had not been diluted with soil prior to burial and was not deposited under 100 feet of overburden in St. Louis County landfill area No. 1, but at another landfill area. The information furnished by the Department of Natural Resources had been developed by a reporter from the St. Louis Post Dispatch and has received significant coverage in the St. Louis area.
Based on.the information supplied by DNR, a full investigation is being initiated by Region III.
Contact:
GSmith, IE x27261 GWRoy, IE x27261 DThompson, IE x27541 l
i Distribution:
I Chairman Rowden Commissioner Mason S. J. Chilk, SECY Commissioner Gilinsky C. C. Kammerer, CA G. F. Murphy, JCAE Commissioner Kennedy L. V; Gossick, EDO E. Volgenau, OIE J. A. Harris, PA B. C. Rusche, NRR J. La Fleur, ISP T. J. McTiernan, AIA K. R. Chapman, NMSS H. K. Shapar, ELD l
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