Licensee Name and
NRC Action Number |
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Action Type
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Date |
Description |
Wang Engineering, Inc., IL
EA-08-066 |
NOV
(SL III) |
04/18/2008 |
On April 18, 2008, a Notice of Violation was issued for a Severity
Level III violation involved the failure to file NRC Form 241- Report
of Proposed Activities in Non-Agreement States, at least three days
prior to engaging in licensed activities within NRC jurisdiction.
Specifically, on numerous occasions during 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2007,
Wang Engineering, Inc., a licensee of the State of Illinois, used
portable moisture/density gauges containing licensed material at
Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) construction sites; areas of exclusive
federal jurisdiction in an Agreement State, without filing a Form-241
with the NRC. |
Washington County Memorial Hospital, IN
EA-96-071 |
NOV
(SL III) |
05/02/1996 |
Unqualified physician user. |
Washington Hosptial, PA
EA-02-244 |
NOV
(SL III) |
11/26/2002 |
On November 26, 2002, a Notice of Violation was issued for a Severity
Level III violation involving the failure to properly prepare written
directives on multiple occasions for brachytherapy treatments. |
Washington Hospital Center, DC
EA-06-029 |
NOV
(SL III) |
05/04/2006 |
On May 4, 2006, a Notice of Violation was issued for a Severity
Level III violation involving deliberate failure to secure from unauthorized
removal and failure to maintain constant surveillance over licensed
material. Specifically, the lock on the door to the hot lab, a controlled
area which contained licensed material, had been deliberately disabled
with tape to allow ease of access and the hot lab was left unattended
with the door lock disabled. |
Washington Hospital Center, DC
EA-04-157 |
NOV
(SL III) |
02/15/2005 |
On February 15, 2005, a Notice of Violation was issued for a willful
Severity Level III violation involving the use of licensed radioactive
material in humans by an individual who was not an authorized user
and who was not under the supervision of an authorized user. |
Washington Hospital Center, DC
EA-98-555 |
NOVCP
(SL III)
$ 5,500 |
03/31/1999 |
Loss of nuclear packemaker. |
Washington Hospital Center, DC
EA-98-145 |
NOVCP
(SL III)
$ 2,750 |
04/28/1998 |
Unauthorized disposal of radioactive waste, failure to secure waste,
and failure to label waste. |
Washington Hospital Center, DC
EA-96-385 |
NOVCP
(SL III)
$ 5,000 |
04/10/1997 |
Multiple instances of failure to measure employee thyroid burdens,
and failure to provide adequate training in this area; and the loss
of an iodine-125 seed, failure to perform an adequate survey in an
attempt to recover the missing seed, and failure to notify the NRC
of the loss of the material. |
Western X-Ray Corporation, CA
EA-07-277; EA-07-278 |
NOV
(SL III) |
02/15/2008 |
On February 15, 2008, a Notice of Violation was issued for two
Severity Level III violations. The first violation involved a failure
to certify an individual who acted as the radiographer of record
while performing industrial radiography. The second violation involved
a failure to wear an operating alarm ratemeter by an individual who
acted as the radiographer’s assistant during radiographic operations.
Specifically, on April 23, 2007, the individual acting as the radiographer
of record was not certified as a radiographer and the individual
acting as the assistant radiographer of record was not wearing an
operating ratemeter at all times during radiographic operations,
while performing industrial radiography on an offshore platform in
federal waters. |
Weatherford International, Inc., TX
EA-01-030 |
NOV
(SL III) |
02/05/2001 |
On February 5, 2001, a Notice of Violation was issued for a Severity
Level III violation involving the failure of Weatherford International,
Inc., a licensee of the State of Louisiana, to file NRC Form 241,
" Report of Proposed Activities in Non-Agreement State," prior to
conducting well logging operations using americum-241/beryllium sealed
sources in offshore waters in areas of Federal jurisdiction. |
Westinghouse Electric Company, SC
EA-08-057 |
NOV
(SL III) |
05/01/2008 |
On May 1, 2008, a Notice of Violation was issued for a Severity
Level III violation. The violation involved the failure to assure
safe and compliant activities involving nuclear material. Specifically,
on November 17, 2006, a safety significant control interlock was
willfully bypassed by an operator who disabled an alarm acknowledgement
pushbutton associated with Conversion Line 5 while hydrogen gas was
flowing to the calciner in the licensee’s wet conversion process.
This activity is prohibited by licensee procedures and NRC license
conditions. |
Westinghouse Electric Company, MO
EA-05-104 |
NOVCP
(SL III)
$16,250 |
08/25/2005 |
On August 25, 2005, a Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition
of Civil Penalty in the amount of $16,250 was issued for a Severity
Level III Problem consisting of two violations. The first violation
involved the failure to incorporate a significant number of nuclear
criticality safety evaluation controls into plant procedures prior
to conducting operations involving fissile materials. The second
violation involved the failure to determine the mass of fissile material
in objects prior to placing the objects into nuclear criticality
safety fissile material storage arrays. A Severity Level IV violation
was also issued involving the failure to follow posted instructions
established in accordance with the requirements of a nuclear criticality
safety evaluation. |
West Virginia University, WV
EA-99-300 |
NOVCP
(SL III)
$ 2,750 |
02/04/2000 |
On February 4, 2000, a Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition
of Civil Penalty of $2,750 was issued for a Severity Level III violation
based on failure to secure, limit access to, or maintain constant
surveillance of licensed material stored in the Civil Engineering
Building and four research laboratories. |
Western Colorado Testing, CO
EA-96-459 |
NOVCP
(SL III)
$ 2,500 |
06/13/1997 |
Willful failure to file for reciprocity. |
CPORDER
$ 2,500 |
10/28/1997 |
Western Soil, Inc., PR
EA-99-262 |
NOVCP
(SL III)
$ 2,750 |
11/24/1999 |
A Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil
Penalty of $2,750 was issued for licensee's failure to maintain surveillance
of licensed material (gauge). |
CPORDER
$ 2,750 |
04/12/2000 |
Westinghouse Electric Company, SC
EA-08-165 |
NOV
(SL III) |
08/06/2008 |
On August 6, 2008, a Notice of Violation was issued to Westinghouse
Electric Company, Commercial Nuclear Fuel Division, for a Severity
Level III problem involving three violations associated with the
loss, on February 4, 2008, of sixteen sample vials of uranium hexafluoride.
Specifically, the violations involved (1) the failure to properly
document and control the transfer of sixteen sample vials of uranium
hexafluoride from shipping and receiving to the chemistry laboratory
as required by procedures, (2) the failure to secure from unauthorized
removal the sixteen vials when they were stored in a controlled area
and the failure to control and maintain constant surveillance of
the sample vials when they were not in storage, and (3) the failure
of an individual to annotate that he had read and acknowledged the
procedure governing the disposal of empty shipping containers prior
to performing that work assignment. In this case, there are no indications
of any radiation or chemical exposures as a result of the licensee’s
loss of control of the sixteen uranium hexafluoride sample vials. |
Westinghouse Electric Company, SC
(Columbia Facility)
EA-06-043 |
NOV
(SL III)
|
05/12/2006 |
A Notice of Violation was issued on May 12, 2006, for a Severity
Level III violation involving the licensee’s failure to have
a change to a safety significant control, i.e., the use of a new
sponge blasting media, reviewed and approved by the licensees Environmental
Heath and Safety Unit, prior to implementation. |
Westinghouse Electric Company, SC
(Columbia Facility)
EA-04-096 |
NOVCP
(SL II)
$ 24,000 |
07/28/2004 |
On July 28, 2004, a Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition
of Civil Penalty in the amount of $24,000 was issued for a Severity
Level II problem involving multiple violations related to the discovery
of ash deposits in the incinerator off-gas system at concentrations
that exceeded the bounding assumptions of the approved safety basis. |
Westinghouse Electric Company, SC
(Columbia Facility)
EA-02-045 |
NOV
(SL III) |
05/29/2002 |
On May 29, 2002, a Notice of Violation was issued for a Severity
Level III problem including multiple violations (one willful) involving
material control and transportation of special nuclear material. |
Westinghouse Electric Company, SC
(Columbia Facility) EA-01-174 |
NOV
(SL III) |
08/31/2001 |
On August 31, 2001, a Notice of Violation was issued for a Severity
Level III problem involving multiple violations related to an event
involving the failure of criticality safety controls on the licensee's
ammonium diuranate process lines. |
Westinghouse Electric Company, SC
(Columbia Facility)
EA-97-442 |
NOVCP
(SL III) $13,750 |
01/01/1998 |
Breakdown on control of licensed activities regarding criticality
safety. |
Westinghouse Electric Company, SC
(Columbia Facility)
EA-97-244 |
NOV
(SL III) |
07/28/1997 |
Unaccounted for two unradiated fuel rods. |
Westinghouse Electric Company, SC
(Hematite Facility)
EA-03-182 |
NOV
(SL III) |
12/22/2003 |
On December 22, 2003, a Notice of Violation was issued for a Severity
Level III violation involving two examples of the failure to follow
enhanced work plans for decommissioning activities specific to the
preparation of contaminated materials for shipping to a metal recycling
facility. |
Wheeling Hospital, Inc., WV
EA-00-187 |
NOV
(SL III) |
10/12/2000 |
On October 12, 2000, a Notice of Violation for a Severity Level
III was issued. The action was based on the failure to maintain adequate
security or control of licensed materials (brachytherapy device and
transportation container). |
Wilcox Associates, Inc., MI
EA-08-215, EA-08-267 |
NOV
(SL III) |
11/07/2008 |
On November 7, 2008, a Notice of Violation was issued for a Severity Level III violation. The violation involved two examples of the failure to use a minimum of two independent physical controls that form tangible barriers to secure a portable gauge whenever the gauge was not under the control and constant surveillance of the licensee as required in 10 CFR 30.34(i). Specifically, the first example involved using a single barrier, only one lock, to secure the gauge transport case to an unlocked closed-bed pickup truck. The second example involved using a single barrier, only one lock, to secure a gauge in a locked cage. |
Wilcox Associates, Inc., MI
EA-96-257 |
NOV
(SL III) |
09/03/1996 |
Moisture density gauge technician did not secure or maintain constrant
surveillance of a device which contained NRC-licensed material. |
Wilcox Memorial Hospital, HI EA-02-056 |
NOV
(SL III) |
04/25/2002 |
On April 25, 2002, a Notice of Violation was issued for a Severity
Level III violation involving the failure to secure from unauthorized
removal or limit access to licensed material (curie quantities of
molybdenum-99) and the failure to control and maintain constant surveillance
of this licensed material. |
William Beaumont Hospital, MI
EA-04-129 |
NOV
(SL III) |
09/14/2004 |
On September 14, 2004, a Notice of Violation was issued for a Severity
Level III violation involving the administration of a dosage of liquid
iodine-131 to a patient for a thyroid uptake study that was approximately
90 times larger than the 10-microcurie dosage prescribed by the authorized
user physician. |
Windham Community Memorial Hospital, CT
EA-97-392 |
NOV
(SL III) |
02/06/1998 |
Falsification of dose calibrator calibration records. |
Windsor Service, Inc., PA
EA-97-596 |
NOV
(SL III) |
12/22/1997 |
Management breakdown. |
Wisconsin Centrifugal, WI
EA-98-318 |
NOV
(SL III) |
06/17/1998 |
Failure to secure licensed material. |
Wisconsin-Oshkosh, University, WI
EA-98-100 |
NOV
(SL III) |
03/27/1998 |
Programmatic breakdown. |
Wood River Medical Center, ID
EA-97-613 |
NOVCP
(SL III) |
04/27/1998 |
Violations indicative of breakdown in control of license program. |
Worthington Industries, Inc.
EA-04-140 |
NOV
(SL III) |
08/23/2004 |
On August 23, 2004, a Notice of Violation was issued for a Severity
Level III violation involving the sale and transfer of ownership
of two generally licensed gauges (containing approximately 1.0 curie
each of americium-241) without providing the new owner with the required
safety documents identified in the label on the device. |
Wyatt Engineering, Inc., ID
EA-98-157 |
NOV
(SL III) |
06/19/1998 |
Conducted licensed activities in the state of Idaho without an
NRC license or reciprocity agreement. |