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During the quarter 1,777 radioisotope Ncenses were issued, These included, in addition to
renewals and amendments, 446 licenses issued to new licensees. New licensees during the

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New Licensees
July—September 1958

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Medical institutions and physicians

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Federal and state laboratories

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There were reported 636 shipments to non-Soviet bloc countries during the July-September
quarter. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (the AEC’s principal distributor of radioisotopes)
made 1,147 shipments of radioisotopes; by September 30 ORNL had made a total of 115,460
shipments.

Licenses authorizing disposal of radioactive wastes at sea were issued to Isotopes Specialties Company, Inc., Burbank, California, American Mail Line, Ltd., Seattle, Washington,
and New England Tank Cleaning Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts,

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_ Notices were published of the proposed issuance of licenses to provide radioactive waste
disposal service to the Walker Trucking Company, New Britain, Connecticut, and Nuclear
Engineering Company, Inc., Walnut Creek, California. In both cases a petition to intervene and
a request for a hearing were filed with the AEC, The petition in the case of the Nuclear Engineering Company was subsequently withdrawn.* The petition in the case of the Walker Trucking
Company was filed by the town of Portland, Connecticut,j where the company proposes to prepare packaged waste for sea disposal and store such packages temporarily. The petition was
based on the objections of oil companies in the immediate vicinity of the Walker Trucking
A hearing was held July 30-31 in the matter of the apparent violation by Advance Industrial X-Ray Laboratories (a division of Air Frame Inspection, Inc.), Los Angeles, of certain
license conditions and regulations, which may have contributed to a radiation incident involving
the loss of a2 29-curie iridium 192 source and exposure of personnel to radiation in excess of
permissible limits. The testimony was under consideration by the hearing examiner.
On August 29 an order was issued to Empire Steel Castings, Inc., Reading, Pennsylvania,
to cease and Gesist from further use of a I~curie cobalt 60 source possessed without a byproduct material license. The firm was directed to place the source in storage pending either
transfer of the source to a licensed recipient or the issuance of a license by the AEC.
*A license was issued to Nuclear Engineering Company on October 22.

}Two additional petitions to intervene were filed by Elliott Earl, Managing Director of the Institute
for Nuclear Serology, Manchester, Connecticut, and Walter A. Lynch of Port Washington, New York. The
mater of the Walker Trucking Company was set down for a prebearing conference and for a hearing, to be
held in Hartford on November 18 and 19, respectively.
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