Dresden Nuclear Power Station, Unit 2 issued the following announcement on July 29.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold a regulatory teleconference on Aug. 4 with
officials from International Isotopes Inc. to discuss two apparent violations of regulatory
requirements identified by the NRC during an inspection.
The teleconference will begin at 9 a.m. Central Time and will be open to the public. NRC
officials will be available to answer questions following the business portion of the meeting. The
public will have the opportunity to listen to the meeting and ask questions via a phone bridge by
calling 888-972-4310, passcode 3411918#.
The purpose of the conference is to discuss the apparent violations identified in a June 22
inspection report. They involve the licensee’s failure to properly review and approve operating
procedures through their radiation safety committee prior to implementation. These procedures
were used by International Isotopes when a significant contamination event occurred at the
Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Wash., on May 2, 2019.
The inspection was conducted at the company’s facility in Idaho Falls, Idaho, in February.
No decision on the final safety significance of the apparent violations or any NRC actions
will be made at the meeting.
Original source can be found here.
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