ML103190002
| ML103190002 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Reed College |
| Issue date: | 11/15/2010 |
| From: | Alexander Adams Research and Test Reactors Licensing Branch |
| To: | Frantz S Reed College |
| Adams, A 415-1127 | |
| References | |
| TAC ME4086 | |
| Download: ML103190002 (5) | |
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November 15, 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 for Facility Operating License No.
R-112 for the Reed Research Reactor which you submitted on May 28, 2010, as supplemented by letter dated October 21, 2010. 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 15 days of the date of this letter.
In accordance with Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), Section 50.30(b), you must execute your response in a signed original document under oath or affirmation. Your response must be submitted in accordance with 10 CFR 50.4, Written Communications. Information included in your response that is considered security, sensitive, or proprietary, that you seek to have withheld from the public, must be marked in accordance with 10 CFR 2.390, Public inspections, exemptions, requests for withholding.
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: See next page
November 15, 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 for Facility Operating License No.
R-112 for the Reed Research Reactor which you submitted on May 28, 2010, as supplemented by letter dated October 21, 2010. 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 15 days of the date of this letter.
In accordance with Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), Section 50.30(b), you must execute your response in a signed original document under oath or affirmation. Your response must be submitted in accordance with 10 CFR 50.4, Written Communications. Information included in your response that is considered security, sensitive, or proprietary, that you seek to have withheld from the public, must be marked in accordance with 10 CFR 2.390, Public inspections, exemptions, requests for withholding.
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: See next page DISTRIBUTION:
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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 We are continuing our review of your amendment request for Facility Operating License No.
R-112 for the Reed Research Reactor which you submitted on May 28, 2010, as supplemented by letter dated October 21, 2010. 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 15 days of the date of this letter.
In accordance with Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), Section 50.30(b), you must execute your response in a signed original document under oath or affirmation. Your response must be submitted in accordance with 10 CFR 50.4, Written Communications. Information included in your response that is considered security, sensitive, or proprietary, that you seek to have withheld from the public, must be marked in accordance with 10 CFR 2.390, Public inspections, exemptions, requests for withholding.
- 1. Your proposed license conditions in response to our request for additional information (RAI) addressed many of the issues raised. However, to be consistent with the current format for research reactor license conditions, the license conditions should be formatted into individual conditions. For example, your proposed license conditions would be broken down as follows:
B. Pursuant to the Act and Title 10, Chapter I, CFR, Part 70, "Domestic Licensing of Special Nuclear Material:
(1) to receive, possess, use, but not separate, in connection with operation of the facility, up to 3000 grams of contained uranium-235 enriched to less than 20 percent in the form of TRIGA fuel; (2) to receive, possess, use, but not separate, in connection with operation of the facility, up to 4000 grams of contained uranium-235 enriched to less than 20 percent in the form of TRIGA fuel from the University of Arizona reactor and to receive, possess, use, but not separate, in connection with operation of the facility, such special nuclear material that was produced by operation with this fuel in the University of Arizona reactor; (3) to receive, possess, use, but not separate, in connection with operation of the facility, such special nuclear material as may be produced by operation of the reactor;
(4) to receive and possess, but not use or separate, up to 300 grams of contained uranium-235 enriched to less than 20 percent in the form of TRIGA fuel elements 2898D, 4058X, shim rod fuel follower and regulating rod fuel follower from the University of Arizona reactor and to receive and possess, but not use or separate, such special nuclear material that was produced by operation with this fuel in the University of Arizona reactor; and (5) to receive, possess use, but not separate, in connection with operation of the facility, up to 11 grams of uranium-235 in the form of fission chambers.
C. Pursuant to the Act and Title 10, Chapter I, CFR, Part 30, "Rules of General Applicability to Licensing of Byproduct Material:"
(1) to receive, possess and use in connection with operation of the facility, a 1.64-curie sealed americium-beryllium neutron startup source; (2) to receive, possess, use, but not separate, in connection with operation of the facility, byproduct material contained in fuel from the University of Arizona authorized by license condition 2.B.(2) above; (3) to receive and possess, but not use or separate, byproduct material contained in fuel from the University of Arizona authorized by license condition 2.B.(4) above; and (4) to receive, possess, use, but not separate, in connection with operation of the facility, such byproduct material as may be produced by operation of the facility.
Please propose license conditions similar to this format or justify why this format is not needed for your license conditions.
- 2. Your current uranium-235 material possession limit is 2,500 grams. However it appears from your response to our previous RAI that you are proposing to raise the possession limit to 3,000 grams (see license condition B(1) above). Please justify the need to increase this possession limit or return it to the current limit of 2,500 grams.
- 3. Your RAI response indicates that the amount of uranium-235 in the four fuel elements that will not be used in operation of the Reed Research Reactor (RRR) is about 150 grams. However, it appears from your proposed license conditions that you are requesting a uranium possession limit of 300 grams. Please justify the need for this possession limit or propose a limit nearer to the uranium-235 content of the four fuel elements.
- 4. It appears from your proposed license conditions included in the response to our previous RAI that you are proposing to use the University of Arizona (UA) fuel in the RRR which is a change from statements in your original amendment request that use of the fuel would be requested in a separate license amendment. Please clarify if this is
your intent. If so, please discuss your justification for using the fuel and why its use meets the requirements of your technical specifications.
Please describe the nature of the damage. Does this damage represent any hazard to the reactor or public health and safety if the fuel element is stored in your reactor pool?
Is the fuel element isolated from the RRR pool (canned)? If so, describe the method used to can the element and why you conclude that the method is acceptable for storage in the RRR pool.
- 6. Your RAI response indicates that the four fuel elements received from UA that will not be used in the reactor will be stored in a DOE supplied transfer basket. Please discuss how this storage meets the requirements of your technical specifications. What are the long-term storage plans for these fuel elements?