ML19248D654
| ML19248D654 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | MIT Nuclear Research Reactor |
| Issue date: | 07/31/1979 |
| From: | Reid R Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Lisa Clark MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, CAMBRIDGE |
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| NUDOCS 7908170136 | |
| Download: ML19248D654 (2) | |
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Docket No. 50-20 Mr. Lincoln Clark, Jr., Director Massachusetts Institute of Technology 138 Albany St.'et Cambridge, MassaC1usetts 02139
Dear Mr. Clark:
In your letter of 1.ay 4,1979, you stated that you desire tU increase your activities in material science that would involve multicurie quantities of metals and alloyed materials that might be activated at your facility or received from other reactors.
You raised two concerns about your present Facility Operating License No. R-37 and requested that we advise you on these concerns so that you could proceed with any required croposals for license or technical specification changes.
Your first concern related to whether or not a separate byproduct material license would be required if the activities to be codu:ted are wholly within the bounds defined by your operating licence.
Since your Operating License No. R-37 is deemed to contain and is subject to the conditions of Section 30.34 of 10 CFR 30, a separate byproduct material license is not required. However, your operating license must specifically state that you may receive and possess byproduct material activated at other reactors.
Your second concern was in regard to the meaning of the word " separate" in the following section of your operating license:
" Pursuant to the Act and 10 CFR Parts 30 and 70, to possess, but not separate, such byproduct material and special nuclear material as may be produced by operation of the reactor."
You stated that it was your understanding that this does not preclude repackaging or making smaller lots of byproduct material, nor the taking of small samples for assay or fluence determination. With respect to byproduct material, we have not extended the meaning of tre word " separate" as used in the quoted section above to preclude repackag'ng, making smaller lots, or taking small samples for assay or fluence determination.
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Mr. Lincoln Clark, Jr. In order to engage in the activities you have described in your May 4, 1979, letter, you will require (as a minimum) an amendment to your Facility Operating License that adds a section allowing the r'ceipt and possession of byproduct material from other reactors. This sect:on should state the maximum amount of byproduct material activated at other reactors that you may possess at any time and the purpose for possessing such material.
If you have any further questions, do not hesitate to call.
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