RE: Contaminated Scaffold Knuckles - Turkey Point

["Bauman, Rodney (84U) " <84u@BECHTELJACOBS.ORG>]

Dave et al,



Regarding No.1 - Although there exists no possibility for these items to

exceed 2 nCi/g, what is the lower limit for having to ship something as

SCO-I with b/g surface contamination?  Is it 5 Kdpm/100 cm2 b/g or 2.2

Kdpm/100 cm2 b/g or anything detectable?



Heck, the upper limit for SCO-I is only 22 Kdpm/100 cm2 b/g.  I'm sure that

you could easily exceed that value without exceeding 2 nCi/g (extrapolating

over the weight of the knuckle).



I haven't really followed the DOT regulations since the advent of the SCO

category, but is there a possibility that something like this requires

shipment as SCO?  There's got to be a position on this out there somewhere.



Regarding No.2 - AMEN!  Unfortunately, no person eyeing a political career

has the guts to say the last sentence in public.



Say Hi to Rick and Brent for me.



Rodney Bauman, CHP, RRPT

Bechtel Jacobs Company, LLC

Project Health Physicist

ETTP and Y-12 Waste Operations

Y-12 Plant Bldg. 9624, MS 8222

Voice: 865.241.5344

Pager: 865.417.0561

Fax: 865.576.3946

84u@bechteljacobs.org



> -----Original Message-----

> From:	dpharrison@AEP.COM [SMTP:dpharrison@AEP.COM]

> Sent:	Tuesday, September 18, 2001 12:34 PM

> To:	bobw@oz.net; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

> Subject:	Re: Contaminated Scaffold Knuckles - Turkey Point

> 

> __________________

> 

> 1. Shipping violation...na.  If you can find a scaffold knuckle that

> weighs

> 2 grams then maybe; otherwise, this wouldn't even be considered

> radioactive

> material per the DOT.

> 

> 2. Violation of NRC regulations re: RAM control: violation against whom?

> You're supposing that the vendor is a licensee, may not be the case.

> Violation against the entity that used the knuckles and sent back to the

> vendor?  You're assuming their unconditional release protocol calls for

> surveys in the SAM, they might have used the ol' smear and frisk routine

> which would not have seen the contamination.  No survey method in the

> world

> can give anyone 100% assurance that what they release does not contain an

> atom or two of byproduct material.

> 

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