ML19263B649
| ML19263B649 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | 07000025 |
| Issue date: | 11/06/1978 |
| From: | Crow W, Ketzlach N NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| To: | NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7901220318 | |
| Download: ML19263B649 (3) | |
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70-25 APPLICANT:
Energy Systems Group, Rockwell International Corporation FACILITY:
Canoga Park, Chatsworth, California
SUBJECT:
REVIEW 0F LICENSE AMENDMENT APPLICATION DATED MARCH 15, 1978, AND SUPPLEMENT DATED OCTOBER 26, 1978 I.
Introduction The Energy Systems Group, Rockwell International (RI), by applica-tion dated March 15, 1978, has submitted a plan for the future decontamination of the places of use and sites authorized by Special Nuclear Material License No. SNM-21 so that they can be released for unrestricted use. The plan includes an estimate of the costs involved and the financial arrangements that have been maae to insure that adequate funds will be available to cover the costs at the time of decomissioning. At the request of the NRC, a supplement to the plan, dated October 26, 1978, was submitted that directly comits RI to the financial responsibility for the costs of decontamination and decomissioning.
II. Decontamination Plan and Costs The decontamination plan concerns all areas within buildings in which unencapsulated radioactive materials have been handled pursuant to License No. SNM-21. There are four buildings involved:
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Building 001, Headquarters - Manufacturing and Developnent Facility 2.
Building 004, Headquarters - Laboratory Facility 3.
Building 020, Nuclear Development Field Laboratory - Hot Cell Laboratory 4.
Building 055, Nuclear Development Field Laboratory - Nuclear Materials Development Facility 790122 03g
2 RI has had much experience in the decontamination of portions of their facility for unrestricted use and has had primary respons-ibility for the decontamination and decommissioning of a number of major facilities (e.g., the Hallam and Piqua Nuclear Power Facilities, the Sodium Reactor Experime..t, and a number of SNAP reactor development facilities on land optioned to the Government at the Nuclear Development Field Laboratory).
The facilities and all the equipment decontaminated for release for unrestricted use will meet the Division of Fuel Cycle and Material Safety (FC) guidelines of November 1976 (Annex C to the SNM-21 license).
Equipment and parts of facilitie' (e.g., parts of flocrs and walls) not meeting the Annex C cri' ia will be packaged, transported, and disposed of in accordance with current criteria and requirements for radioactive materials.
The estimated cost for facility and equipment decontamination and burial is approximately 3.2 million dollars.
The staff concluded the plan and the estimated cost are reasonable and adequate.
III. Financial Plan While RI fully expects the Department of Energy to fund the decon-
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tamination activities when needed, the Vice President and Controller, Energy Systems Group, Rockwell International, has provided assurance that Rockwell has the ultimate responsibility to see the necessary decontamination and decommissioning will be performed when required.
The staff has evaluated the RI financial plan and finds that, although it does not contain a financial surety arrangement that would guarantee decommissioning funds, it offers the assurar.ce of a corporate official that adequate funds will be available when needed for decommissioning. With this comnitment and con-sidering the canpany's resources to implement and finance the decommissioning plan, the staff finds that the estimated cost of decontaminating the Canoga Park and Chatsworth, California, facilities (3.2 million dollars) is a small fraction of the cash fl ow.
3 IV. Conclusion The Energy Systems Group of Rockwell International's plan for the future decontaaination of the places of use and sites authorized by this license, so that they may be released for unrestricted use, and the financial arrangements, to ensure that adequate funds will be available to cover the costs at the time of decommissioning, provide satisfactory assurance that health and safety of the operating personnel, the public, and the environment will be protected.
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