ML052900449

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Changes to Be Made to Both the Administrative Plan and Technical Specifications of the Wsunrc Due to Retirement of Director
ML052900449
Person / Time
Site: Washington State University
Issue date: 10/12/2005
From: Tripard G
Washington State Univ
To:
Document Control Desk, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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w - i; % -I WASHINGTON STATE I IJNIVERSITY Nuclear Radiation Center October 12. 2005 Document Control Desk 5-US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 As the current director of the Washington State University Nuclear Radiation Center (WSUNRC), I will retire on October 1 8th 2005. The WSUNRC then will fail to meet several requirements of both the Administrative Plan and the Technical Specifications of the facility.

In order to ensure that the facility does not knowingly violate these provisions, changes must be made to both the Administrative Plan and the Technical Specifications of the WSUNRC. At present, the director of the facility is required to be a licensed senior reactor operator. It is the intent of the facility to place a time-sensitive restriction on this requirement to allow for transitions between directorships of the facility.

Section 1 of the Administrative Plan, "Responsibilities and Authority of Reactor Operating Staff', sub-section B presently states the following: "The Directorshall be a licensed senior reactoroperatorand shall hime thefollowing listed responsibilitiesand authority:"

This shall be changed to:

"The Directorshall have thefollowing listed responsibilitiesand authority:

1. The Directorshall be a licensed seniorreactoroperator.
2. No more than eighteen months shall pass -withoutapermanent Director who is a licensed seniorreactoroperator.

Retain current items one through fourteen, adding the above requirements at the beginning of the list and renumbering.

PO Box 641300, Pullman, WA 99164-1300 509-335-8641

  • Fax: 509-335-4433 a wwv.wsu.edu/-nrc

. - r The WSUNRC Technical Specifications, section 12.1.4 (page 12-2) currently state "Specialfacility requirements include that the Directormust be a faculty person with considerablenuclear reactorrelatededucationalexperience and must obtain a SRO

[seniorreactoroperator]license ".

This shall be changed to the following:

"Specialfacilityrequirements include that the Directormust be afaculty person with considerablenuclear reactorrelatededucationalexperience and, with an eighteen month exceptionfor the transitionperiodbetiween permanent Directors, obtaina senior reactoroperator'slicense.

Sincerely, Dr. Gerald Tripard, Director Reactor Safeguards Committee Appro va Cc:

Marvin Mendonca, Program Manager, USNRC Dr. Jim Petersen, Vice Provost for Research Ken Spitzer, Associate Vice Provost for Research & Interim Director