ML19269E901
| ML19269E901 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | 07000734 |
| Issue date: | 05/29/1979 |
| From: | Partlow J NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| To: | Mawry W GENERAL ATOMICS (FORMERLY GA TECHNOLOGIES, INC./GENER |
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| NUDOCS 7906290796 | |
| Download: ML19269E901 (4) | |
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General Atomic Company ATTN: Mr. W. Howry Licensing Administrator.
P.O. Box 81608 San Diego, California 92138 Gentlemen:
It has come to our attentior that the license condition issued on January 15, 1979 was incomplete with respect to commitments made in the Plan identified in Condition 2.1, and one of the conditions issued on May 2,1979 was incorrectly numbered. Accordingly, we are revising and renumbering the referenced conditions in conjnnction with a complete revision of Sections 1.0 through 8.0 of Amenchent MPP-1 to your License No. SNM-696, effective June 4, 1979.
Please note that the referenced conditions are renumbered 5.1 and 3.4, respectively; obsolete conditions have been deleted and minor wording changes have been made in two conditions in Section 3.0 to clarify their intent.
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James G. Partlow, Chief Material Control & Accountability
' Licensing Branch Division of Safeguards
Enclosure:
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Revision of Sections 1.0 through 8.0 In Their Entirety To Materials and Plant Protection Amendment MPP-1 To License Nc. SNM-696 Effective June 4,1979 1.0 FACILITY ORGANIZATION Currently, there are no conditions under this section. All requirements are adequately addressed in an approved plan.
2.0 FACILITY OPERATION 2.1 The licensee shall follow the " Fundamental Nuclear Material Control Plan", GA-A-13248, Revision 2, dated February 1976, as amended March 24, 1976, November 10, 1976, September 26, 1977 and August 14, 1978, as revised April 20, 1979 and in accordance with the provisions of 10 CFR 70.32(c).
2.2 No statenent in the licensee's Plan identified in Condition 2.1 shall relieve the licensee of a requirement of 10 CFR Part 70 unless granted in a specific exemption or exception set forth as a condition of this license.
2.3 Operations involving special nuclear materials which are not described in the Plan identified in Condition 2.1 shall not be initiated until an appropriate safeguards plan has been approved by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
2.4 For the low enriched uranium production campaign described in the September 28, 1978 letter, the licensee shall follow the material control and accounting program modifications described in the September 28 and October 12, 1978 letters.
3.0 MEASUREMENTS 3.1 Notwithstanding the requirements of 10 CFR 70.58(e) the licensee need not measure the special nuclear material content of encapsulated SNM sources which are unopened for research and development or calibration activities.
3.2 hotwithstanding the requirements of 10 CFR 70.51(f)(2)(iii), (f)(3)(fi),
and 10 CFR 70.58(e), drums of waste materials awaiting incineration in the waste incinerator material balance area of Plant I may be inventoried on the basis of prior measurements without the use of tamper-indicating devices.
Waste materials in Plant III destined for ultimate disposal may be inventoried or shipped on the basis of prior measurements without the use of tamper-indicating devices.
3.3 For those materials measured by non-destructive assay, the licensee may calculate the element content on prior isotopic abundance measurements that can be demonstrated to be representative of the material.
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~ Amendment No. MPP-1 Page 2 of 3 Docket No.70-734 License No. SNM-696 3.4 Notwithstanding tne requirements of 10 CFR 70.51(f)(3)(ii), for ventilation system holdup measurements, the licensee shall follow Section 3.1-3 of the Plan identified in Condition 2.1.
3.5 In accordance with the provisions of 10 CFR 70.51(e)(6), the licensee shall establish and maintain a system of material control and accounting such that the LEMUF values for the HTGR Fuel Fabrication Operations (Plant I) shall not exceed 1200 grams uranium and 1100 grams uranium-235 for each material balance period during the period of October 1,1978 through September 30, 1979.
4.0 MEASUREMENT CONTROL 4.1 All identifiable covariance effects shall be taken into account in the calculation of LEMUF.
4.2 LEMUF calculations are not required for material balances associated with Plants III, IV and V except as noted in Section 2.1.2.1 of the Plan identified in License Condition 2.1.
4.3 Material unaccounted for in Plants III, IV and V shall not exceed 300 grams uranium or uranium-235 contained in high enriched uranium.
4.4 The assigned value for working calibration and test materials prepared from process materials shall be based on measurement by two different methods or laboratories which shall verify each other.
Verification shall be determined as described in Section 4.2.1.2 of the Plan identified in License Condition 2.1.
The assigned value and associated uncertainty shall be determined by data pooling on a weighted basis.
4.5 For a measurement system utilizing a line or curve calibration, the bias calculation shall be performed by:
- 1) recomputing the SNM values using calibration parameters from the current period for a no-pool policy or by using parameters from the new pooled data, or 2)' deter-mining the percent shift of the calibration line at the average SNM value and applying the correction factor to the total SNM quantity.
4.6 Neithstanding the requirements of 10 CFR 70.57(b)(4) to determine systematic sampling errors and perform engineering tests to establish or verify the applicability of existing mixing and sampling procedures, the licensee shall follow Section 4.3 of the Plan identified in License Condition 2.1.
4.7 Notwithstanding the requirements of 10 CFR 70.57(b)(8) to measure standards and replicates for volume systems, to determine separate random errors for sampling and analytical, and to generate random errors for bulk and NDA from replicate measurements of process materials, the licensee shall follow Sections 4.2.2 and 4.4.1 of the Plan identified in License Condition 2.1.
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f Amendment No MPP-1 Page 3 of 3 Docket No.70-734 License No. SNM-696 4.8 Notwithstanding the requirements of 10 CFR 70.57(b)(10) to perform bias calculations and corrections and determine limits for systematic errors, the licensee shall follow Section 4.2.4 of the Plan identified in License Condition 2.1.
5.0 ITNENTORY 5.1 In lieu of the requirement of 10 CFR 70.51(e)(3)(i) for scheduling physical inventories of special nuclear material and commitments contained in Section 5.4 of the Plan identified in Condition 2.1, the licensee shall conduct physical inventories of high enriched uranium in accordance wiuth the schedule specified in their letter dated December 21, 1978.
6.0 RECORDS AND REPORTS 6.1 The licensee shall use his or his designated agent's measured values for SNM accounting, except as provided in Condition 3.1.1.
6.2 The licensee shall report on a monthly basis all intentional discards and material unaccounted for.
The MUF shall be that which has been determined during the month as a result of completing a material balance around a single operation, a number of operations, or the entire plant.
This report shall be made within fifteen (15). days after the end of the month in which the discard was made or the material unaccounted for was determined.
Reports shall be sent to the appropriate regional office of the Nuclear Regulatory Comission.
6.3 In lieu of the requirement in 10 CFR 70.54 that the Form NRC/D0E-741 be completed and distributed within ten (10) days after receipt of nuclear material, the licensee may use a Form NRC-284 to acknowledge receipt where measurements cannot be completed in the time specified.
Receipt measurements shall be completed and reported on the Form NRC/ DOE-741 within thirty (30) days af ter receipt of material.
7.0 INTERNAL CONTROL Currently there are no conditions under this Section.
All requirements are adequately addressed in an approved Plan.
8.0 MANAGEf1ENT Currently there are no conditions under this Section.
All requirements are adequately addressed in an approved Plan.
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