ML19308B181

Responds to 731107 Inquiry Re Personnel Exposure at Oconee & Accidental Damage to Gas Centrifuge at Oak Ridge.Forwards Proposed Ltr Re Accident,Aec 731101 Press Release,Telegrams from Piedmont Organic Movement & Duke Power Co

ML19308B181
Person / Time
Site:	Oconee
Issue date:	11/29/1973
From:	Knuth D US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
To:	Mann J HOUSE OF REP.
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l PROPOSED REPLY TO CONGRESSIONAL LETTER ON CENTRIFUGE ACCIDENT The accident at Oakridge Tennessee which your constituent asked about, occurred, at an AEC facility rather than a privately owned, AEC licensed facility under the jurisidction of the Regulatory side of the AEC. We have enclosed the Comission's public announcement on the incident which involved the classified development program on the gas centrifuge method of inriching uranium.

No nuclear reactor was involved. The small amount of uranium hexafloride released was essentially natural uranium and therefore, a very low level of radioactivity.

Nobody was hurt.

Full details of the incident could not be made public at the time because of the classified nature of the program.

But a decision was eventually made to issue a public announce-i ment in view of the industrial interest in the gas certrifuge development program.

The gas centrifuge process has been :nder development'of'r a number of years and it is a potential competitor to tae process currently being used for the separation of uranium isotopes.

The gas centrifuge unit that failed was undergoing test operations in a facility at Oakridge. One of the purposes of this test facility is to screen the design for defects before the unit undergoes further investigations.

Design modifications will be made to eliminate future occurrence of this type. The Commission Ippointed a special AEC team to investigate the incident for the purpose of recomending design changes as appropriate.

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Philip Keif (Thurs day, Novembe r 1, 1973) Tel. 301/973-3335 EXPERIMENTAL GAS CENTRIFUGE MODEL ACCIDENTALLY DAMAGED IN TEST The Atomic Energy Commission said today an experimental gas centrifuge model was virtually destroyed in an accident during test stand operations at a centrifuge development facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The incident occurred on October 20. When the centrifuge model--a cylindrical device which revolves at high speeds--failed, it damaged a number of other experimental units and support piping. There were no personal injuries. Approximately four ounces of uranium hexafluoride were released in the building, but there was no overexposure of personnel. Many other centrifuges were unaffected by the incident and are continuing in test operation. The AEC is conducting research into the gas centrifuge method of separating uranium isotopes. The " feed" material is uranium hexafluoride in gaseous form. The AEC presently uses a different p ro ce s s- - gas e ous diffusion--in the production of uranium enriched in the U-235 isotope. The fissionable U-235 is used as power reactor fuel and in weapons. The experimental centrifuge involved was an advanced model. Screening procedures are routinely conducted on ad-vanced machines to confirm design characteristics and component pe rfo rmance. Some centrifuges have failed previously during the screening procedures, but those failures did not sig-nificantly affect operation of other machines. A special AEC committee is investigating the accident in an e ffort to determine the cause and possible adjustments in future design and/or operation of experimental gas centrifuges.

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