LD-89-031, Application for Amend to License SNM-33,allowing Startup & Test of New Pellet Lines Using Depleted U.Fee Paid

Application for Amend to License SNM-33,allowing Startup & Test of New Pellet Lines Using Depleted U.Fee Paid

ML20244B544
Person / Time
Site:	07000036
Issue date:	03/22/1989
From:	Scherer A ABB COMBUSTION ENGINEERING NUCLEAR FUEL (FORMERLY
To:	Rouse L NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
References
25350, LD-89-031, LD-89-31, NUDOCS 8904190262
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License Amendment Request for Start-up and Test of New Pellet Lines

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Letter L. C. Rouse (NRC) to Dr. P. L. McGill (C-E),

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Dear Mr. Rouse:

i As you are aware, Combustion Engineering is in the process of revitalizing our Nuclear Fuel Manufacturing Facility at Hematite, C

Missouri. As part. of this program, we are constructing additional manufacturing space for two new pellet production lines.

Via the reference letter, the NRC provided authorization to pour the concrete floor of the new pellet manufacturing building. The construction ofa this building is now proceeding and we anticipate that by June 1,1989, we will be ready to initiate start-up testing of the pellet lines using:

depleted uranium. At the same time we plan to begin use of the 5

additional warehouse space, Building 25C-2, During the start-up and test phase with depleted uranium, we intend to utilize the same radiological controls and procedures as the existing facility. Additionally, for the new warehouse space we intend to observe the existing criticality safety requirements.

Prior to introducing enriched uranium in _, the new pellet manufacturing area, we will submit another license amendment requesting authorization to operate this facility in a production mode.

We anticipate that we will submit this amendment on or about May 1,1989 for a planned September,1989 production start-up.

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Me, L. C. Rouse LD-89-031

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. The enclosures to this letter include the proposed amendments to Part I and Part II of the license application.

Enclosure I provides a list of the affected pages.

Enclosure II provides the license application change pages.

A check in the amount of $150.00 to cover this license amendment request, as required by 10 CFR 170.31, is included in Enclosure III.

If I can be of any assistance on this matter,- please do not hesitate to i

call me or Mr. J. F. Conant of my staff at (203) 285-5002.

Very truly yours, COMBUSTION ENGINEERING, INC.

A. E. Scherer Director Nuclear Licensing AES:dmb Enclosure I List of Affected Pages Enclosure II License Change Pages Enclosure III Check No. 215042 cc:

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Docket No. 70-36 License No. SNM-33 HEMATITE FUEL MANUFACTURING FACILITY REQUEST FOR LICENSE AMENDMENT Combustion Engineering requests that the license (SNM-33) for its Hematite Nuclear Fuel Manufacturing Facility be amended to reflect the addition of manufacturing space to the existing facility. This additional space will be utilized primarily for modernized pellet production lines. This license amendment request is for the use of depleted uranium for start-up and test of the new pellet lines.

The license pages affected by this amendment request, and their respective revision numbers are listed below. The proposed chan,ge pages are provided in Enclosure 2.

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l 1.7 Authorized Activities Receive, possess, use, and transfer Special Nuclear Material under Part 70 of the Regulations of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in order to manufacture nuclear reactor fuel utilizing low-enriched uranium (up to 5.0 weight percent in the isotope U-235).

Receive, possess, use, and transfer Source Material under Part 40 of the Regulations of the Nuclear F.egulatory Commission.

Source materials are used for the same purposes as SNM, and are generally used for the start-up testing of a new process. Sealed cobalt-60 sources are used for instrument calibration and testing. Authorized activities are conducted in the following-buildings and facilities on the Hematite site:

Number Name Present Utilization 101 Tile Barn Emergency Center and equipment storage 110 New Office Building Guard Station and Offices 120 Wood Barn Equipment Storage 0xide Building UF6 to U02 Conversion, and Dock UF6 receiving W

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l' Number Name Present Utilization 252 South Vault Radioactive waste storage 254 254-1 Depleted U02' storage, blending, and pressing l

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reduction, dewaxing, and sintering 254-3 Depleted U02 grinding and-pellet packaging 255 Pellet Plant Pellet fabrication, storage, and packaging:

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quakes of Epicentral Intensity XII Modified Mercalli-scale (M.M).

which took place on December 6,1811 and January 23 and February 7, 1812, near New Madrid. During recent years, there have been two quakes recorded-in the New Madrid area.-

In 1962 a quake measuring V-(M.M) was recorded and one with a magnitude of 4-1/2 was recorded in 1963. A quake reported as "the strongest in years" occurred near Caruthersville, Missouri, 150 miles southeast of Hematite, on December 3,'1980.

1.4 Locations of Buildinas on Site Figure 11.1.4 shows the location of and identifies the bu'ildings and facilities on the Hematite site. A general description ^of'the:

-major buildings follows:

The Oxide Plant (Powder Production Area) is a four-level building, 31'x36', with a concrete floor, corrugated.plas-steel I

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Adjoining the Oxide Plant is a 31'x55' dock area which also has a i

concrete floor and a metal roof.

Building 240, the Recycle / Recovery Areas and Laboratory, is 83' x 215'and is 16' high. The building has concrete flooring, exterior concrete block walls with windows, and a concrete-on-metal roof. About 6,000 square feet of the area is utilized for uranium cycle and recovery operations with the remainder of the building used for office area, clothing change

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1.4-(cont'inued) u sThe Quality Control Laboratory is. located in.the southwest corner' Iof Building 240. An area of approximately 2,500, square feet it

-utilized for testing of the chemical: and physical-properties.of uranium oxide, powders, pellets. and other materials. -

Building 254 contains two' parallel pellet product' ion lines which are comprised of blending, pressing, sintering, grinding, and.

packaging-operations. Additional: equipment.has been installed to recycle ~ green and hard scrap. At this time ~ only depleted uranium

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w Building 254 is surrounded on four sides.

It adjoins the existing-pelletizing buildi.ng 255 on the east side, the warehouse

' building 256 on the south side, the womans' locker room on the-c north side, and eventually the storage / utilities / office build' ng-i

-253 on the west side. The' building measures 83 feet wide by 161' feet long. The' roof'is 23 feet high on the. south end and stepped to:36 feet high on the north end. Building 254 is' constructed with a free standing' steel frame supported on' shallow poured concrete spread footings, a concrete slab floor _ on-grade and concrete block walls laterally tied to the steel frame.

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block walls.are shared ~where building 254' adjoins other

• buildings [ MetEl cu'rtain walls with insulation are used on the exposed exterior. walls of the high north end and on'the high portions that rise above the block walls shared with adjoining buildings.

Roofing is rigid insulating board over metal decking supported on prefabricated trusses carried on the steel building frame.

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Building:255, the pellet' plant,- measures 83' x :161' and is,17'-

high. This building has concrete flooring, concrete block walls, 1

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a portion of.this building --~an area approximately 83' wide by.

83' long. The remainder of this building area-is used for offices, storage, work-break area, U02 producttstorage in.

sealed containers, and. the supply room.

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end of the existing pelletizing building,255 and the south end of the new pelletizing building 254. This warehouse me'asures approximately 151 feet by.50 wide.

It is constructed of concrete slab floor on grade.with concrete' b' lock walls and roofing of..

rigid insulating board over~ metal decking supported on-prefabricated steel trusses. 'The warehouse serves as a.

storage and shipping facility for finished pellets and as a

. receiving warehouse for site supplies. Truck access to the warehouse is via'a new, roadway corridor that runs from the main q

gate to the warehouse between an existing fence-line and the new.

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1.5 License History License SNM-33 was transferred to Combustion Engineering-from Gulf United Nuclear on August 21, 1974'.'.It has since been renewed on March.31, 1977 and December 30, 1983 for 5-year periods.

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The Oxide Building also has an unfiltered room air exhaust which is operated only infrequently during periods of hot weather, at times when release of contamination is unlikely, and is monitored when used. A continuous air monitor, located on the 4th floor, will alarm should a release occur.

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Bldg. 254 Sintering and grinding (2) 12,000 ea.

Bldg. 254 Pell'et Packaging (1) 12,000 Bldg. 255 Roof Exhaust 9,032 Bldg. 255 West Manifold 12,020 Bldg. 255 East Manifold 9,773 Bldg. 240 Dry Recycle 3,657 Bldg. 240 Wet Recovery 5,807 l

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