ML19294B060
| ML19294B060 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | 07000893 |
| Issue date: | 12/14/1979 |
| From: | Keuper J FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, MELBOURNE, FL |
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| References | |
| 15028, NUDOCS 8002270077 | |
| Download: ML19294B060 (3) | |
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TM FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TEGIINOLOGY M E LD O U R N E.1* LO RI D A orricu or Tite rnEntDENT Eecember 14, 1979 Mr. W. T. Crov, Section Leader Uranium Frocess Licensing Section Uranium Fuel Licensing Branch Division of Fuel Cycle and Material Safety United States Nuclear Regulatory Co= mission Washington, DC 20555
Dear Mr. Crew:
This is an application for renewal of License ?' umber SIIM-84h (ZCE) for Florida Institute of Technology, P.O. Box 1150, Country Club Road, Melbourne, Florida, 32901, hereinafter designated as " applicant" or "the applicant".
1.
The corporate officers of the applicant are:
Jero=e P. Keuper, President, 201 Cak Street, Melbourne Beach, Florida - USA Citizenship, David C. Lathan, Vice President, P.O. Box 17711, Orlando, Florida - USA Citizenship, Ferry F. Clendenin, Treasurer, 400 Eanyan Way, Melbourne Beach, Florida - USA Citizenship, Ray A. Work, Jr., Secretary,1105 South Riverside Drive, Indialantic, Florida -
USA Citizenship, John E. Miller, Assistant Secretary, 801 Atlantic Street, Melbourne Beach, Florida - USA Citizenship, John W. Simmons, Assistant Secretary, h05 Eanyan Way, Melbourne Beach, Florida -
USA Citizenship.
No ownership or control of the applicant by any foreign corporation or govern-ment exists.
2.
The nuclear raterial vill be uscd by the applicant in Nuclear Physics and Engineering cources. All material vill be kept in Room E-2 of the Crawford Science Building located on the campus of the applicant. The material will be used in the education and training of graduate and undergraduate students, and in research by authorized faculty members. Use of the nuclear caterial vill be in conjunction with a Lockheed sub-critical spur assembly manufactured in 1961.
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Mr. W. T. Crow, Section Leader 2
December 14, 1979 The sub-critical assembly will be primarily used for neutron activation and the studies of neutron diffusion.
3 The applicant requests that the license be renewed for a period of five years.
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The quantities on hand, and being used, are:
Isotope Percentage SNM Quantity of Element FU-239 14.21 grams 93.025 U-235 h58.53 grams 19.85%
5 (a) The applicant does not now foresee a need for additional SNM.
(b) No significant consumption or production of SNM is expected in this sub-critical assembly.
(c) No need for transfer of SNM is expected.
The program of utilization will be under the general direction of Dr. Jercme P. Keuper, President of Florida Institute of Technology, and Dr. Jay Burns, Head of Physics and Space Sciences Department.
Dr. Rong-sheng Jin will super-vise the use of the special nuclear material and the sub-critien1 assembly.
Dr. Jin received his Ph.D. in Physics (specialization:
nuclear physics) from the Ohio State University in 1965 He has been supervising the sub-critical assembly at Florida Institute of Technology since 1973 Dr. Gary N. Wells will be responsible for radiation safety at Florida Institute of Technology.
Dr. Wells received his Ph.D. degree fro = University of Illinois in 1971. He is an Assistant Professor in the Biological Sciences Department at Florida Institute of Technology. His experience in isotope usage is as follows:
Formal Instruction-Lecture and laboratory course in Radiation Biology at Western Il-linois University.
Instruction included chemical and physical pro-perties of radioisotopes, use of radiation measuring instruments, monitoring techniques, radiation health protection, handling, decon-tamination techniques, effect of radiation on biological systens and use of radioisotope as a research tool in biological sciences.
Research Qualifications:
Experience in the handling, use and disposal of liquid and solid radionuclides and labeled biological co=nounds. Radioisotones used 86 I, 3DFe and 33, 3s, usCa, I'l include 1"C, 'H, p,
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The radionuclides, Ca, I, Fe. and Rb were used as radio tracers in environmental studies at Western Illinois University and University
Mr. W. T. Crow, Section Leader 3
Dece=ber 14, 1979 of Oklahoma. The I"C, H,
P, and S labeled biological compounds 3
32 33 were used in conjunction with research on nitrogen metabolica and protein synthesis at the University of Illinois and University of Oklahoma.
6.
Among the radiation measuring and protection instruments available and being used are:
- Multichannel Analyzer (Northern NS600)
- A rack mounted discri=inator and digital counting system
- Four scintillator detectors (sodium iodide with thallium)
- Two Geiger-Mueller detectors
- One portable survey meter (Elscint, Model GSM-1), one portable survey meter (Nuclear Chicago Model 2112) with Neutron Detector (DN-3)
- Pocket Dosimeters (Vitoreen 541/A)
- R. S. Landauer, Jr., & Co. film badge service (neutron a'nd garma)
Film badges are checked by Landauer monthly, and reported for monthly, quarterly, and permanent dosages.
7 The uraniu=-containing asse=bly core is stored in a sealed fifty gallon steel drum when not in use.
The Pu-Be source (No. M-llh6) is stored in a steel drum. The drum has an eight-inch radius. A one and one-half inch pipe holds the neutron source in the center of the drum. The space between the pipe and the drum is filled with paraffin. There are approxicately seven inches of paraffin around the source.
The Pu-Be source vill be leak tested every six months for alpha contamination to be less than 0.0005 microcurie. All tests to date have been negative.
3.
No additional SNM has been or will be allowed in the vicinity of the SNM of this license without prior permission from tae cognizant federal and/or state authorities.
There is no credible accident that could cause criticality of this sub-critical assembly.
Sincerely yours, s.
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<s,Jerome P. Keuper (
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