“sess LICENSING AND REGULATION 2 *ED uranium 235 allocated, 225,000 grams were for reactor fuel, 270,100 grams for critical ex- periments, 45,500 grams for commercial fue] element fabrication, and 17 grams for research ' Zaet ‘ webeRe t ; coy ’ t he + wae UNCLASSIFIED i, 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 quarter and the numberof lcensees on September 30 are classified as follows: 4 . “ Nat ‘ ’ and development. New Licensees July—September 1958 4 7 aoa on x Medical institutions and physicians 113 Federal and state laboratories 238 Industrial companies Colieges and universities Foundations and institutions 78 Licensees on September 30 9 3 Other 1,358 587 , 4 Total 1,797 , 446 238 45 50 . | 4,075 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, . an - ; 3 2 _ 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for a hearing were filed with the AEC, The petition in the case of the Nuclear Engineering Company was subsequently withdrawn.* The petition in the case of the Walker Trucking Company was filed by the town of Portland, Connecticut,j where the company proposes to prepare packaged waste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. - 6 DOE ARCHIVES ot AS NCLASSIFIED eases iS ¢ a ' / wee Aathd ea Bhonsle bait shee we thet yet te “Ma ,! Company location. ae? ’