ML19337B485
| ML19337B485 | |
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| Site: | 07001113 |
| Issue date: | 09/11/1980 |
| From: | Crow W, Stevenson R NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
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SEP 111980 DOCKET NO.:
70-1113 APPLICANT:
General Electric Company FACILITY:
Fuel Fabrication Plant Wilmington, North Carolina
SUBJECT:
REVIEW OF AMENDMENT APPLICATION TO CONSTRUCT AND USE NEW STORAGE BUILDING, JUNE 11, 1980, 0700lll3A07S
Background
By application dated June 11, 1980, General Electric Company (GE) notified NRC of the intent to' build a warehouse on the Wilmington site and applied for a license amendment to permit use of the building for storage of empty or loaded fuel containers or non-nuclear items. The building is to be a steel frame building with sheet metal siding, 95 feet wide, 285 feet long and 30 feet high, located on a poured concrete slab,137 feet north of the northeast corner of the fuel manufacturing building, within the fenced area.
Uranium fuel will be stored in Fissile Class I packages (RA-series fuel bundle shipping containers, BU-5, and BU-7 shipping containers) or in the inner metal containers of the model RA-series. shipping packages.
Non-nuclear storage will include such iters as empty 5-gallon steel pails, fire brick and industrial supplies.
Discussion Radiological Safety There will be no unencapsulated uranium or any other radioactive materials handled in the warehouse building, which will therefore be a non-controlled area.
Fulfillment of the containment requirements of Part 71 for the loaded shipping containers should be adequate assurance of radiological safety under the relatively static and protected conditions in the warehouse as compared to conditions during transportation.
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SEP 111980 tiuclear Criticality Safety The fuel storage containers, except for the-inner metal containers of the RA-series, are undamaged Fissile Class I, and should therefore be sub-critical in any number or arrangement in accordance with Part 71, 5 71. 38(a).
The inner metal containers of the RA-series will be stored in accordance with Section 1.6.2(d) of the existing license, which requires protection from mechanical damage or flooding.
Under those storage conditions, as determined in the review and issuance of the existing license, there is no significant criticality hazard.
Environmental Impact In view of the building use, there should be no emissions to the environment.
Construction of the building involves no significant excavation.
Installation of the storage building should leave the consnitted land area well below that considered in the environmental evaluation.
Conclusion and Recorrnendation Based on the safety and environmental impact information sunnarized in the foregoing, it is concluded that the proposed storage building can be constructed and used as described without undue risk to the health and safety of the operating staff or the public, and without significant environmental impact.
Approval of the amendment" application is recommended.
k h-Robert L. Stevenson Uranium Process Licensing Section Uranium Fuel Licensing Branch
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Division of Fuel Cycle and Approved by:
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