Event Notification Report for August 1, 2001
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Operations Center
Event Reports For
07/31/2001 - 08/01/2001
** EVENT NUMBERS **
38177 38178
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|Fuel Cycle Facility |Event Number: 38177 |
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| FACILITY: WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION |NOTIFICATION DATE: 07/30/2001|
| RXTYPE: URANIUM FUEL FABRICATION |NOTIFICATION TIME: 17:52[EDT]|
| COMMENTS: LEU CONVERSION (UF6 to UO2) |EVENT DATE: 07/30/2001|
| COMMERCIAL LWR FUEL |EVENT TIME: 14:45[EDT]|
| |LAST UPDATE DATE: 07/31/2001|
| CITY: COLUMBIA REGION: 2 +-----------------------------+
| COUNTY: RICHLAND STATE: SC |PERSON ORGANIZATION |
|LICENSE#: SNM-1107 AGREEMENT: Y |MALCOLM WIDMANN R2 |
| DOCKET: 07001151 |E. WILLIAM BRACH NMSS |
+------------------------------------------------+R. WARREN, NMSS IAT |
| NRC NOTIFIED BY: JIM HEATH |DICK WESSMAN IRO |
| HQ OPS OFFICER: JOHN MacKINNON | |
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|EMERGENCY CLASS: NON EMERGENCY | |
|10 CFR SECTION: | |
|KSNM 70.52(a) LOSS OF SNM/CRIT | |
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| ONE SPECIAL NUCLEAR MATERIAL CONTAINER UNEXPECTEDLY RETURNED TO BWXT. |
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| Westinghouse Electric Company received a telephone call from BWXT stating |
| they had received one 3-gallon container of uranyl nitrate crystals from |
| Westinghouse in a SNM shipping container labeled as empty. |
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| This container was originally shipped from BWXT to Westinghouse on 07/17/01 |
| for processing and was documented by a 741 form. Ninety-six containers were |
| indicated on the 741, but one was inadvertently left in the outer shipping |
| container or put back into the shipping container and returned to BWXT for |
| the next shipment. |
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| BWXT stated that the original inner container Tamper Indicating Device was |
| still on the container and intact. |
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| After discussion and clarification of the incident with BWXT personnel, |
| Westinghouse Electric Company personnel determined at 1700 hours that this |
| incident was reportable to the NRC Operation Center. |
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| ***** UPDATE FROM DAN COLWELL TO LEIGH TROCINE RECEIVED AT 1000 ON 07/31/01 |
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| The licensee provided this update to correct the initial discovery date. It |
| should have been 07/30/01 in lieu of 07/29/01. |
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| The NRC operations officer notified the R2DO (Widmann), NMSS EO (Brach), |
| NMSS IAT (Warren), and IRO (Holonich). (Contact the NRC operations officer |
| for licensee contact information.) |
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|Other Nuclear Material |Event Number: 38178 |
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| REP ORG: PALMERTON PARRISH INC. |NOTIFICATION DATE: 07/31/2001|
|LICENSEE: PALMERTON PARRISH INC. |NOTIFICATION TIME: 16:26[EDT]|
| CITY: REGION: 3 |EVENT DATE: 07/31/2001|
| COUNTY: GREEN STATE: MO |EVENT TIME: 12:00[CDT]|
|LICENSE#: 24-25998-01 AGREEMENT: N |LAST UPDATE DATE: 07/31/2001|
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| |PERSON ORGANIZATION |
| |PATRICK HILAND R3 |
| |SUSAN FRANT NMSS |
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| NRC NOTIFIED BY: F. PALMERTON | |
| HQ OPS OFFICER: JOHN MacKINNON | |
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|EMERGENCY CLASS: NON EMERGENCY | |
|10 CFR SECTION: | |
|BAB1 20.2201(a)(1)(i) LOST/STOLEN LNM>1000X | |
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| TROXLER MOISTURE DENSITY GAUGE MISSING. |
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| A 3440 Troxler Moisture Density gauge, serial number 23967, containing |
| 10mCi's of Cesium-137 (source serial # 75-5945) and 40mCi's of Am-241/Be |
| (source serial # 47-19997) fell out of back of pickup truck at the corner of |
| Farm roads 182 and 139. The moisture density gauge was out of its container |
| and in the back of an open bed pickup truck with its tail gate down when it |
| fell from the back of the truck. The driver of the truck did not notice |
| that the moisture density gauge was missing until he arrived at his |
| destination which was 5 miles after the corner of Farm roads 182 and 139. |
| The driver drove back searching for the gauge when he met a farmer who said |
| that he had seem the gauge laying in the road at the corner of Farm roads |
| 182 and 139 around 1200 CT. Palmerton Parrish Incorporated sent 4 or 5 |
| people out to search the area, tall vegetation and a river by the road side. |
| A search of the area did not find the gauge. The licensee notified the |
| Green County Sheriffs department of the missing gauge, sheriff report number |
| is 01-6085. A bulletin will be release by the sheriff's department later |
| today informing people of the missing moisture density gauge. The sheriff's |
| department will also notify the local police, local fire departments, and |
| surrounding counties of the missing moisture gauge. The gauge was bought |
| new by the licensee back in November 1994. NRC Region 3, D. Wiedeman was |
| notified of this event by the licensee. |
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| * * * UPDATE ON 07/31/01 AT 2002 ET BY PALMERTON TAKEN BY MACKINNON * * * |
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| The gauge was recovered after a $500 reward was offered for the recovery of |
| the gauge. Radiation survey of the gauge found were within normal readings. |
| R3DO (Pat Hiland) & NMSS EO (Camper) notified. |
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