ML19208A411

Discusses 790809 Visit to Plant to Study Levels of Activity & to Tour Facility.Licensee Has No Firm Contracts for New Work

ML19208A411
Person / Time
Site:	07000824
Issue date:	08/16/1979
From:	Gundersen G NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
To:	Partlow J NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
References
NUDOCS 7909130549
Download: ML19208A411 (2)

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TRIP REPORT - B&W, LRC On August 9,1979, Mr. C. N. Smith and myself visited the Babcock & Wilcox, Lynchburg Research Center, License No. SNM-778. The purpose of the visit was a plant tour to familiarize ourselves with the facility and to discuss levels of activity. Our principal contact was Mr. A. F. Olsen, License Adminis trator.

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During the tour, we learned that the critical assembly is currently being y

used to study materials and spacings to permit increased storage capacity of spent fuel pools. The reactor is used as a radiation source f'.r varicus studies. Most of the gloveboxes in the plutonium fabrication line which

.had previously been decommissioned and cleaned to smearable levels of contamination are being filled with foam prior to shipment to Washington.

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future work. Some intermittent work is being done on low enriched uranium. The only active area in the facility is the hot cell operation i

3 and its related laboratories. Here they receive irradiated fuel assemblies and remove fuel rods for examination as part of the core surveillance y

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j Cne furnace in the low enriched area is used by B&W, C.'lFP for a resintering test on pellets.

i They have a license renewal application in with the following reduced possession limits:

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