PNO-I-99-030, on 990630,licensee Notified NRC Region I That Shipping Container Loaded with Internally Contaminated Vacuum Cleaning Device,Used at Maine Yankee for Asbestos Removal,Was Damaged.No Radioactive Matl Was Released

PNO-I-99-030:on 990630,licensee Notified NRC Region I That Shipping Container Loaded with Internally Contaminated Vacuum Cleaning Device,Used at Maine Yankee for Asbestos Removal,Was Damaged.No Radioactive Matl Was Released

ML20209B937
Person / Time
Site:	Maine Yankee
Issue date:	06/30/1999
From:	Kottan J NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
To:
References
PNO-I-99-030, PNO-I-99-30, NUDOCS 9907080326
Download: ML20209B937 (1)

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June 30, 1999 PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE PNO-I-99-030

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This preliminary notification constitutes EARLY notice of events of POSSIBLE l safety or public interest significance. The information is as initially I received without verification or evaluation, and is basically all that is I known by Region I staff in King of Prussia Pennsylvania on.this date.

EEility Licensee Emeroegy Classification Maine Yankee Atomic Power Co. Notification of Unusual Event Maine Yankee 1 Alert  !

Wiscasset. Maine Site Area Emergency Dockets: 50-309 General Emergency  ;

X Not Applicable l

Subject:

DAMAGED RADI0 ACTIVE MATERIALS SHIPMENT

-On June 30, 1999, the licensee notified NRC Region I that on June 29, 1999, a shipping container loaded with an internally contaminated vacuum l cleaning device, used at Maine Yankee for asbestos removal, was damaged when the! truck hauling the container passed under an overpass on the Massachusetts Turnpike (I-90). The t: uck driver was not aware that the 1

. top of the shi) ping container, a modified sea / land container, had struck i

-the overpass, aut was notified of the incident by a following truck. The i truck driver then stopped at the Ludlow rest stop near the junction of

-I-90 and I-84 and contacted the licensee. The licensee responded to the rest.stop and determined that a small gap was opened in the top of the  !

container lid. No radioactive aaterial was released and there was no structural damage to the shipping container. The licensee repaired and sealed the small gap in the container lid. The shipping container was oversized, and the licensee had obtained a wide load permit for the 1 shipment. -The truck will remain at the rest stop until the licensee '

decides whether to return the container to Maine Yankee or send it to the original destination, a Westinghouse facility in Pennsylvania.

The licensee notified the Massachusetts Department of Transportation and

-the Massachusetts Te apike Authority. This information is current as of 11:00 a.m. on: June 30. 1999. NRC has notified the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Region I Public Affairs is prepared to respond to media incui ries .-

Cortact: J. Kottan (610)337-5214 9907090326 N N t m.p,,_o.o _ o) o;D W j