ML102570089
| ML102570089 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Reed College |
| Issue date: | 09/27/2010 |
| From: | Alexander Adams Division of Policy and Rulemaking |
| To: | Frantz S Reed College |
| ADAMS A, NRC/NRR/ADRA/DPR/PRTA 415-1127 | |
| References | |
| TAC ME4086 | |
| Download: ML102570089 (4) | |
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September 27, 2010 Mr. Stephen Frantz, Director The Reed Research Reactor Reed College 3203 SE Woodstock Blvd.
Portland, OR 97202-8199
SUBJECT:
REED COLLEGE C REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, RE:
LICENSE AMENDMENT, SPECIAL NUCLEAR MATERIAL POSSESSION LIMIT (TAC NO. ME4086)
Dear Mr. Frantz:
We are continuing our review of your amendment request dated May 28, 2010, for Facility Operating License No. R-112 for the Reed Research Reactor. During our review of your amendment request, questions have arisen for which we require additional information and clarification. Please provide responses to the enclosed request for additional information within 45 days of the date of this letter. In accordance with Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations Section 50.30(b), your response must be executed in a signed original under oath or affirmation.
Following receipt of the additional information, we will continue our evaluation of your amendment request.
If you have any questions regarding this review, please contact me at (301) 415-1127.
Sincerely,
/RA/
Alexander Adams, Jr., Senior Project Manager Research and Test Reactors Licensing Branch Division of Policy and Rulemaking Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-288
Enclosure:
As stated cc w/encl:
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Reed College Docket No. 50-288 cc:
Mayor of the City of Portland 1220 Southwest 5th Avenue Portland, OR 97204 Reed College ATTN: Dr. Ellen Stauder Dean of Faculty 3203 S.E. Woodstock Boulevard Portland, OR 97202-8199 Reed College ATTN: Dr. Colin Diver, President 3203 S.E. Woodstock Boulevard Portland, OR 97202-8199 Ken Niles, Assistant Director Oregon Department of Energy 625 Marion Street NE Salem, OR 97301-3737 Terry D. Lindsey, Program Director Radiation Control Program Oregon Health Services Department of Human Services 800 NE Oregon Street, Suite 640 Portland, OR 97232-2162 Test, Research, and Training Reactor Newsletter University of Florida 202 Nuclear Sciences Center Gainesville, FL 32611
ML102570089 NRR-088 OFFICE PRLB:PM PRLB:LA PRLB:BC PRLB:PM NAME AAdams aa GLappert gkl JQuichocho jq AAdams aa DATE 9/22/10 9/21/10 9/24/10 9/27/10
OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING LICENSE AMENDMENT REQUEST FOR THE REED RESEARCH REACTOR LICENSE NO. R-112; DOCKET NO. 50-288
- 1.
Your proposed changes to license condition 2.B. would restrict special nuclear material (SNM) to low-enriched uranium (LEU) and only allow SNM in the form of TRIGA fuel.
Do you possess any SNM of other forms or enrichments such as fission chambers or flux foils? If so, please revise your proposed license condition to specify the amount, enrichment and form of the material.
- 2.
During its review, the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff has noted some corrections and updates that need to be made to license condition 2.B. The reference to Chapter 1 in the license condition should be Chapter I. The title of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 70 has been revised since license condition 2.B. was originally written. The title of 10 CFR Part 70 is now Domestic Licensing of Special Nuclear Material. The license condition does not contain authority for SNM produced during operation of the reactor which was common for license conditions written during the 1960s. License condition 2.B. should contain authority to receive, possess, use, but not separate, such special nuclear material as may be produced by operation of the reactor. Please address these issues or explain why these revisions to the license condition are not needed.
- 3.
The fuel you are to receive from the University of Arizona (UA) contains SNM and byproduct material produced by operation with the fuel in the UA reactor. Please propose changes to your license condition to receive and possess, but not use this material.
- 4.
Please discuss the similarities and differences between the UA fuel and the current Reed Research Reactor fuel. Discuss dimensions, uranium content and density, burnup, built-in poisons if any, materials of construction, etc.
- 5.
Your application states that storage of the UA fuel in fuel storage racks will meet the technical specification (TS) requirements for fuel storage. Please provide your basis for reaching this conclusion (please show compliance with TS H.1. and H.2.).