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Company: United States Air Force (USAF)
Penalty: $8,500
Year: 2012
Date: June 29, 2012
Offense Group: safety-related offenses
Primary Offense: nuclear safety violation
Violation Description: On June 29, 2012, the NRC issued a Notice Violation and Proposed Imposition of a Civil Penalty in the amount of $8,500 to the United States Air Force (USAF) for a Severity Level (SL) III problem. The SL III problem involved two violations: 1) the USAFs failure to conduct a semiannual physical inventory of all sealed sources in their possession, as required by 10 CFR 35.67(g); and 2) the USAFs failure to secure from unauthorized removal or access licensed materials that are stored in controlled or unrestricted areas, as required by 10 CFR 20.1801. Specifically, between November 2, 2004 and September 30, 2011, the USAF did not include a sealed source, which was believed to be in storage, in its semiannual physical inventory. The USAF believed the source was located in the low-level radioactive waste storage room, which is a controlled area; however, sometime between November 2, 2004, when the last physical inventory occurred, and September 30th 2011, the source was lost.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
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