ML19225B363
| ML19225B363 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Framatome ANP Richland |
| Issue date: | 05/18/1979 |
| From: | Estey H SIEMENS POWER CORP. (FORMERLY SIEMENS NUCLEAR POWER |
| To: | Crow W NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7907250044 | |
| Download: ML19225B363 (3) | |
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EIRON NUCLEAR COMPANY,Inc.
2101 Horn Ha;mh Road P O Ho 130. Richland Washin ston 99352 Phone (SC91913 90 hie n 32 6353 Elay 18, 1979
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hir. W i 11 i a m 'l. Crow Fuel lleprocessing f. Fabricat ion Branch Division of Fuel Cycle T, Flaterial Safety ll. S. Nuclear llegulatory Commission Washington, D. C 20555 I,icense No. SN51-12 27 Docket No. H)-1257
Dear b!r. Crow:
Exxon Nuclear Company, Inc. has been awarded a contract to centerless grind small quant ity of sintered UO, pellets enriched in the U-235 isotope to a
13 w/o.
In order to implement this contract, it is necessarj that 1. i c en s e No. SN>t-1227 he amended as follows:
Possession 1.imit lip to 4.4 kilograms of uranium in the form of sintered UO,, enriched in the 11-235 isotope up to 13 w/o.
(No increase in the current general SN51 posses-sion limit of 10,000 kg of contained 11-235 is required. )
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'lhe total amount of ll-235 involved in the amendment app l i ca t i or. is less than one safe batchll),
lhis material shall be maintained isolate <l f r om ot her SN51.
Work I.ocation This material will be stored and processed in the Process Engineering 1.abora-tory, whicL is dcreribed in Section 11-2,14 and evaluated in Section 11-4.6.11 of Document No..IN-2,
" License Applica t ion for Special Nuclear blaterial."
Tra material will be processed at a single pellet grinding station.
The grinder will be cleaned out following completion of the work, and the waste mat erial, along with the ground pellets, will be shipped back to the customer.
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Based on ninimum critical mass data in Figure 21, TID-7028, " Critical Dimensions of Syst ems Containing 11-235, Pu-239 and U-233," Iune 1964.
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