ML15245A562

University of Florida Training Reactor - Request for Additional Information Regarding Amendment 27 to Facility Operating License R-56

ML15245A562
Person / Time
Site:	05000083
Issue date:	09/03/2015
From:	Duane Hardesty Research and Test Reactors Licensing Branch
To:	Jordan K Univ Of Florida, Gainesville
Hardesty D, NRR/DPR, 415-3724
References
TAC ME3482
Download: ML15245A562 (5)

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September 3, 2015 Kelly A. Jordan, Ph.D., Director University of Florida Training Reactor University of Florida 340 Weil Hall P.O. Box 116134 Gainesville FL 32611-6400

SUBJECT:

UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA TRAINING REACTOR - REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING AMENDMENT 27 TO FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE R-56 (TAC NO. ME3482)

Dear Dr. Jordan:

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continuing our review of your amendment request for Facility Operating License No. R-56 for the University of Florida Training Reactor, which you submitted on February 29, 2012 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML12061A271), and supplemented on July 26 (ADAMS Accession No. ML12216A152) and August 31, 2012 (ADAMS Accession No. ML12256A957); September 3, 2014 (ADAMS Accession No. ML14255A378); and April 7, 2015 (ADAMS Accession No. ML15112B177). 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 30 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 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. Any information related to security should be submitted in accordance with 10 CFR 73.21, Protection of Safeguards Information:

Performance Requirements.

K. Jordan Following receipt of the additional information, we will continue our evaluation of your renewal request. If you have any questions regarding this review, please contact me at 301-415-3724 or Duane.Hardesty@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Duane A. Hardesty, Sr. Project Manager Research and Test Reactors Licensing Branch Division of Policy and Rulemaking Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-83 License No. R-56

Enclosure:

Request for Additional Information cc: See next page

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Administrator Department of Environmental Regulation Power Plant of Siting Section State of Florida 2600 Blair Stone Road Tallahassee, FL 32301 State Planning and Development Clearinghouse Office of Planning and Budgeting Executive Office of the Governor The Capitol Building Tallahassee, FL 32301 Chief, Bureau of Radiation Control Department of Health 4052 Bald Cypress Way Tallahassee, FL 32399-1741 Brian Shea, Reactor Manager University of Florida Nuclear & Radiological Engineering Department 340 Weil Hall P.O. Box 116134 Gainesville, FL 32611-8300 Test, Research and Training Reactor Newsletter Nuclear & Radiological Engineering Department University of Florida 202 Nuclear Science Building Gainesville, FL 32611-8300 Dean Cammy Abernathy University of Florida, College of Engineering P.O. Box 116550 Gainesville, FL 32611

OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING LICENSE AMENDMENT NO. 27 FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA TRAINING REACTOR LICENSE NO. R-56; DOCKET NO. 50-83 The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continuing its review of your license amendment request (LAR) for Facility Operating License No. R-56 for the University of Florida Training Reactor submitted by letter dated February 29, 2012 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML12061A271), as supplemented by letters dated July 26 (ADAMS Accession No. ML12216A152) and August 31, 2012 (ADAMS Accession No. ML12256A957); September 3, 2014 (ADAMS Accession No. ML14255A378); and April 7, 2015 (ADAMS Accession No. ML15112B177).

Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Part 73, Physical Protection of Plants and Materials, prescribes requirements for the establishment and maintenance of a physical protection system which will have capabilities for the protection of special nuclear materials at fixed sites, and in transit, and of [facilities] in which the special nuclear material is used. The regulations in 10 CFR 73.67 are specific to the physical protection of special nuclear material of moderate and low strategic significance. Regulatory Guide (RG) 5.59, Standard Format and Content for a Licensee Physical Security Plan [PSP] for the Protection of Special Nuclear Material of Moderate or Low Strategic Significance, Revision 1, issued February 1983, provides guidance for implementing the requirements in 10 CFR 73.67.

The proposed amendment would remove the commitment in your license that indicates the need for a PSP, and replace it with procedures. During our review of your LAR, a question has arisen for which we require additional information and clarification. Please provide responses to the following request for additional information within 30 days of the date of this letter.

The provisions of 10 CFR 73.67(f), "Fixed site requirements for special nuclear material of low strategic significance," do not require a physical security plan if the amount of special nuclear material at the facility is less than an amount of special nuclear material considered to be of moderate strategic significance. Provide an analysis documenting that the aggregate quantity of special nuclear material at the facility will remain below an amount of special nuclear material considered to be of moderate strategic significance for all times in facility life.

ENCLOSURE