NRC Levies Fines on Ohio State

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION LEVIES FINES ON OHIO STATE

     COLUMBUS -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission informed Ohio
State University officials Thursday (10/23) that the institution
is facing a $13,000 fine for 11 violations of NRC policies and
regulations.

     The violations cover a period of more than four years, but
the NRC and Ohio State agree that at no time were students,
staff, faculty or the general public at risk from events relating
to the violations.

     NRC officials said the violations ranged from failing to
conduct inventories and make timely reports to the Commission to
the loss of two small packages of limited-quantity radioactive
material.

     In 1994, the NRC found Ohio State in violation of a number
of regulations regarding the university