ML19345D763
| ML19345D763 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | 07106400 |
| Issue date: | 12/03/1980 |
| From: | Macdonald C NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| To: | Dipiazza R WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC COMPANY, DIV OF CBS CORP. |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8012160595 | |
| Download: ML19345D763 (2) | |
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UNITED STATES y p c.t, j NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASMNGTON, D. C. 20555
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Westinghouse Electric Corporation ATTN:
Mr. Ronald P. DiPiazza P.
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Pittsburgh, PA ' 15230 Gentlemen:
Pursuant to 10 CFR Part 71, you are authorized to deliver to a carrier for transport large equipment waste which has been decontaminated and fixed in accordance with statements and represen.tations made in your letter dated November 20, 1980, subject to the conditions stated below:
1.
Model No.:
6400 2.
Package Identification No.: USA /6400/B()F 3.
Drawings:
Packaging is constructed in accordance with Protective Packaging, Inc., Drawing Nos.:
32106-1, Sheet 1, Rev. F; and 32106, Sheet 2; and Westinghouse Electric Corporation Drawing No. 2020008, Sheet 1 and 2, Rev. O.
4.
Contents: Large decontaminated equipment waste of such size as not to fit into a 55-gallon drum (with legs or other readily removable appendages removed). Not to exceed 60 grams plutonium provided that there is not more than 5 grams of fissile material in a cubic foot within the package.
5.
Equipment wasta surfaces shall be decontaminated to a smearable level of no more than 75,000 dpm/100 cm2 prior to fixation or until successive decontamination cleaning operations do not reduce the smearable contami-nation levels by more than ten percent. Prior to fixing of contamination, large equipment waste shall be inspected to insure that:
(a) all sharp or protruding objects have been removed or blunted, and (b) pipe caps, gasketed blind -flanges, covers, etc., have been installed wherever l
possible.
Following such inspection, the outer and~ inner surfaces shall be fixed with " strip" or " clear" coating. The inner surface (s) may alternatively be fixed with a polurethane foam.
6.
The large equipment waste shall be enclosed in a tight fitting box l
constructed of 1" thick plywood. The space between the equipment _and l
the box shall be fitted with foam.
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The maximum weight of the contents including secondary packaging, dunnage, shoring and bracing shall not exceed 30,000 pounds.
8.
Sufficient dunnage, shoring and/or bracing shall be utilized to minimize secondary impact of the secondary packaging within the cavity under normal and accident conditions.
9.
Protrusions from secondary packaging such as lifting eyes, etc.,
shall be positioned such that they will not contact the cavity walls, or shoring shall be provided to prevent puncture of the cavity walls by the protrusions under the normal and accident conditions.
- 10. Contents shall be positioned in the cavity such that the center of gravity of the loaded package is substantially the same as the center of gravity of an empty package,
- 11. Package Model No. 6400 is exempt from the requirements of 10 CFR E71.42 only for the purpose of making these shipments.
- 12. Expiration date:
December 31, 1981.
REFERENCES Westinghouse Electric Corporation applicatica dated July 13, 1973.
Mechanics Research, Inc., Report C2378, " Engineering Evaluation of the Super Tiger Overpack Designed for the Shipment of Large Quantities of Hazardous Materials."
FOR THE U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
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Charles E. MacDonald, 6iief Transportation Certification Branch-Division of Fuel Cycle and Material Safety cc: Richard R. Rawl Department of Transportation Dr. Donald M. Ross Department of Energy
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