ML19282D235
| ML19282D235 | |
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| Issue date: | 04/12/1979 |
| From: | James Shea NRC OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS (OIP) |
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| SECY-79-142A, NUDOCS 7905230820 | |
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Aoril 12, 1979 SECY-79-142A COMMilEsf0NER ACTION From:
Vames x. dnea, Di rector Office of International Programs Thru:
Executive Director for Operations
Subject:
PROPOSED LICENSE TO IMPORT LOTENRICHED' URANIUM FROM SWEDEN (WESTINGHOUSE APPLICATION ISNM79006)
Purpose:
Commission review of proposed issuance of import license to Westinghouse Electric Corporation.
Review Dates:
60 day period expired April 1,1979 120 day period expires June 1,1979 Discussion:
On February 1,1979, Westinghouse Electric Corporation applied for a license to import up to 92,281 kilograms of uranium, enriched to 3.3% U-235, in the form of UO contained in zircaloy fuel rods.
2 Westinghouse will fabricate the rods into fuel assemblies for use in Ringhals Units III and IV, in Sweden.
This application was the subject of Information Paper SECY-79-142 dated February 25, 1979.
The fuel rods will be imported from ASEA-ATOM, Vasteras, Sweden, packaged in approved containers, models RCC-1 or RCC-3, carrying certificate of com-pliance number USA /5450/B()F. This specification package has been reviewed and approved for the shipment of uranium dioxide as zircaloy or stainless steel clad unirradiated fuel rods. The material will be delivered to the Westinghouse facility at Columbia, South Carolina.
The import of comoarable material has been the subject of Commission review on several occasions in the past, for example, license ISNM01807 (SECY-78-234) and ISNM01721 (SECY-77-242).
Staff views and comments for those previous cases are apolicable, also, to the case at hand and the staff finds this importation will not be inimical to the common defense and security, cr constitute an undue risk to public health, safety and to the environment.
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2 Discussion:
The following documents are forwarded for Commission (continued) review of the subject application:
(1) application of February 1,1979 at Appendix A; (2) copy of proposed license at Appendix B.
NMSS Technical Review.
NMSS notes that the imported material will be exported subsequently to Sweden. No information has been provided concerning IAEA implementation activities and problems other than from the source which was the basis for NMSS concPz'.ns in Table XII of the November 29, 1978 memorandum to Commissioner Gilinsky.
Safeguards information concerning U.S. export recipients such as Sweden has been requested in the Commission's letter to Mr. Pickering dated February 28, 1979.
No information has been received concerning the state-systems of accounting and control in Sweden.
Consequently, NMSS is unable to make any determina-tion regarding the capabilities of their systems to support the effective application of IAEA sa feguards.
NMSS has reviewed the physical security measures required to be used during transit and has found them to be adequate for the purpose of this import.
OIP Comments e
With respect to the proposed reexport of material involved here, IP notes that, if this occurs, it will be the subject of separate Executive Branch and NRC reviews of statutory requirements, including the safeguards aspects addressed above. There is no request for a license to authorize the reexport in hand at this time; however, the applicant is aware that license authority for an import does not imply that a proposed subsequent export will be approved.
Recommendation:
That the proposed import license be issued to Westinghouse Electric Corporation.
Coordination:
OELD has no legal objection.
NMSS views on the effectiveness of IAEA safeguards, the adequacy of
3 Coordination:
the accounting and control system, and the adequacy (continued) of the physical security program in transit are as stated above.
.'l~ -::. c e James RJ Shea, Director Office of International Programs
Enclosures:
As stated DISTRIBUTION:
Commissione rs Commission Staff Offices Exec. Director for Opers.
Secretariat NOTE:
Commissioner comments should be provided directly to the Office of the Secretary, by c.o.b.
Conmission staff office comments, if any, should be submitted to the Commissioners NLT
, with an information copy to the Office of the Secretary.
If tne paper is of such a nature that it requires additional time for analytical review and comment, the Commissioners and the Secretariat should be apprised of when comments may be expected.
ICS-8144 Westinghause Water Reactar Scxa Electric Carporatlan Divislans PmmgtiPyratvarm 15230 February 1, 1979 ys gm,7946 po co VVS Mr. G. G. Oplinger Export / Import & International Safeguards U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C.
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Subject:
ASEA-ATOM Import License
Dear Sir:
We hereby make application for a ifcense for the import of the following special nuclear materials:
Maximum Kilograms Uranium 92,281 Maximum Kilograms Uranium-235 3,046 Maximum Enrichment 3.30%
This material.4111 be exported from Sweden by the following in the form of Zircaloy fuel rods:
ASEA-ATOM P. O. Box 53 S-721-04 Vasteras Sweden The fuel rods will be imported into the United States and delivered to the following:
Nestinghouse Electric Corporation
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Columbia, South Carolina 29250 Westinghouse will then incorporate the fuel rods into fuel assemblies for eventual shipment to the Ringhals III and IV nuclear generating plants, located approximately forty (40) miles south of Goteborg. The use of these fuel assemblies at the Ringhals pl' nts will be as reload regions.
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Mr. G. G. Oplinger February 1, 1979 Page 2 The import of the fuel rods from ASEA-ATOM is scheduled to start September 1,1979 and be complete by February 1,1980.
It is requested the import license have an expiration date of May 1, 1980.
The fuel rods will be exported either by air or ocean transport from Sweden and will be packaged inside Nuclear Regul~atory Ccamission approved RCC-1 or RCC-3 shipping containers.
The IAEA Certificate of Competent Authority No. is USA./5450/BF (Rev. 4).
Your consideration to this application is requested.
Please contact me should you have any questions relating to this subject.
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C. G. Dahlstrom International Customer Services
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~w U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION SPECIA!. NUCLEAR MATERIALIMPORT LICENSE Pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 154, as amended. and T*rtle 10. Code of Federal Regulations. Chioter 1. Part.70, a license Es hereby issued to the licenses designated below evthorizing the import of special nuclear maternal in accordance with the l
apecifiedbelow.
statements and representations made by the licensee in the epolication referenced briow.This license is subject to all appGc.
eble rules, regulations and oreers of the Nucteer Regula.ory C'mmission now or hereafter in effect and to any conditio#..
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- 3. Docket No.
11000445 1.name Westinghouse Electr.ic Corporation Sox 355 ISNM79006 Pittsburgn,.. Pennsylvania 1523.0
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C. G. Dahlstrom
- 5. Expiration dats May 1, 1980
- 6. Country where ship.
- 7. Quantity s'nd type of material
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Sweden of 3.3% in the -U-235 isotope contained zircaloy_ fuel rods.
CONDITIONS h
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The licensee shall obtain all infomation from the foreign exporter g
necessary to complete the. shipper's porti'on of Fom NRC-741, " Nuclear g
Material Transactions Report."
If the licensee is the receiver of the g
' material, he shall record both the shipper's and receiver's infomation on the Form NRC-741 and transmit pursuant-to Section 70.54 of 10 CFR fJ Part 70.
If the licensee is not.the receiver of the material, he shall
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provide the shipper's infomation to the. receiver of the material for k
L inclusion on the receiver"s Fem NRC-741.
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The licensee shall dotify the appropriate Regional Safeguards Branch,
. Office of Inspection and Enforcement, irmediately, by telephone or telegram, if entry of any import shipment authorized by this license is refused by the U.S. Custcms Service.
%l 3.
Each time material"is imported, the licensee shat 1 show the original of the license to U.S. Customs as authority for the import.
The original of the license shcwing the imcorted quantity shall be surren-N
-dered to U.S. Customs when 'the final transaction under the license is c:mpleted.
Except for tfie final transaction, a copy of the license showing the imported quantity shall be surrendered to U.S. Custcms-for each shipment.
All surrendered dccuments shall be marked for immediate transmittal to the Office cd International Programs, U.S. Nuclear y
Regulatory Comission, Washington, D.C., 20555.
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For sne u.s. riucuAa aacut.AToRY Co?.it.11ssioN Date of AspGcation
U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
,SPECIAL NUCLEAR MATERIAL IMPORT LICENSE SUPPLEMENTARY SHEET 4.
For import shipment of 5 kilograms or more of uranium-235 contained in uraaium enriched in the uranium-235 isotope belen 20%, the licensee shall promptly nottfy the appropriate Inspection and Enforcement Office by telephone,. telegram or teletype, upon receiving notification that an import shipment has entered the country, giving the date that the import ontered and estimated time of arrival at the stated destination.
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For each shipment of material to be imported under this license, the licensee shall assure that:
--Arrangements are made for advance notification to be received for any planned shipment specifying the mode of transport, estimated time of arrival, location of the nuclear material transfer point, na'me of carrier and transport identification.
--Confirmation is provided to the exporting country prior to the commncement of the planned shipment that the receiver will be ready to accept the shipment at the planned time and location and that he acknowledges the specified mode of transport.
--Arrangements are made for the material to be transported in a locked or sealed container.
--Arrangements are made to insure the integrity of the containers, locks and seals are checked prior to the shipment.
--Arrangements for notification of any delays in the scheduled shipment have been made.
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--The time that the material is in transit is minimized by reducing the number and duration of nuclear material transfers.
--Response crocedures for dealing with threats of thefts or thefts of such material are established and maintained.
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--Arrangements have been made to be notified immediately of the arrival of the shipment at the point of debarkation, or of any such shipment that is los,t or unaccounted for.
--Conduct immediately a trace investigation of any shipment that is lost or unaccounted for and report to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as specified in g73.71 and to the shipper or receiver as appropriate.
The licensee shall also immediately notify the Director of the appropriate Nuclear Regulatory Commission Inspection and Enforcement Regional Office listed in Appendix A of the action being taken to.
trace the shipment.
--Notify the exporting country of the arrival of such material.
FOR THE U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Gerald G. Oplinger, Assistant Director Export / Import and International Safeguards Office of International prograns Date of Application February 1,1979 Date of Issuance
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