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Escalated Enforcement Actions Issued to Materials Licensees - W

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Licensee Name and NRC Action Number	Action Type (Severity) & Civil Penalty (if any	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.
Western Colorado Testing, CO EA-96-459	CPORDER $ 2,500	10/28/1997	Willful failure to file for reciprocity.
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).
Western Soil, Inc., PR EA-99-262	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.