ML071000325

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Letter Informing That Federal Funding from DOE Will Not Be Available
ML071000325
Person / Time
Site: National Bureau of Standards Reactor
Issue date: 03/29/2007
From: Gallagher P
US Dept of Commerce, National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST)
To:
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Institute of Standards and Technology Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-March 29, 2007 Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555

Dear Sir:

Subject:

Docket Number 50-184 The Department of Energy has no qualified LEU fuel for the NIST reactor and funds for the conversion of the NIST reactor to LEU will not be available at any time in the foreseeable future.

,Accordingly, a schedule for conversion of the NBSR cannot be submitted at this time.

Since Ply Patrick Gallagher Director, NIST Center for Neutron Research Noao