ML19345E222
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| Site: | 07000398 |
| Issue date: | 12/19/1980 |
| From: | COMMERCE, DEPT. OF |
| To: | Soong S NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
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| NUDOCS 8012230483 | |
| Download: ML19345E222 (7) | |
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December 19, 1980 U. S Nuclear Regulatory Commission Division of Fuel Cycle and Material Safety Attn:
Mr. S. Soong Washington, DC 20555 Ref: Docket No.70-398; License No. SNM-362 Gentlemen:
As you requested, we are submitting additional information to support our request for a=endment to License No. SNM-362, dated November 24, 1980.
Should you have questions or require further information, please contact T. G. Echbs at 921-2247.
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Materials: Up to one milligram of plutonium in solution and up to one gram of urantun-235 in solution will be the naximum material quantities in the area at one time, and only one of these will be in process, i.e., the other would be stored in the hood, unopened. A nominal 12 grams of plutonium-238 are being used as sealed heat sources on the third floor of the building; except for the unlikely possibility that gram quantities of other material would pass through the building while in transit, these are the only materials in Bldg. 221.
Facilities: Figure 1 shows the NBS site with Bldg. 221 marked. Figures 2a and 2b show basement, first, second, and third-level original floor plans.
Minor room size and access modification have been made. Figure 3 shows the mass spectrometer facilities. Room B33 is divided into a cold lab and the hot lab where the material will be processed. The hot lab hoods are equipped with roughing and absolute filters, manometer monitored, in the laboratory itself.
Room A30 contains the mass spectrometer to be used for analysis.
Ooerations:
in one of the hoods in the hot lab, an aliquot of solution with a nominal tyo nanograms of plutonium cr a nominal two micrograms of uranium-235 is remuved from the container. This is deposited on a filament that is trans-f erred to the mass spectrometer for analysis. Following analysis, all the
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material is kept in the hood until it can be transferred to an authorized recipient.
Protection: Hood airflow is maintained at a nominal 100 linear feet per minute. Lights on the hood indicate power losses and the local manometer indicates the crop of pressure across the filter. Health Physics measures the airf1:w :n a bi=onthly schedule. Gloves and lab coats are worn during filarert 1:aiing. Smears are taken by Health Physics on a weekly basis routina17 anj at the operator's request.
If contamination above the 20 dpm a per 100== is found, a sheat similar to Figure 3 would be returned to the operater. In that case, all oparations would cease until the contamination is cleaned and steps taken to pre. ant further releases.
Instrumentation: Gas or air proportional or scintillati:n o-survey meters are in the facility during operations. Smears are counted in 2r, windowless, gas-flow proportional counters. A constant air =enitor with a thin end-window CM probe and filter is in the attic of Bldg. 221, with an air intake from outside air for the hoods exhausting at roof level of the building.
Vastes: Solid wast.es are placed in radioactive waste cans in the hot lab; liquids are kept in closed containers in the hoods. Health Physics, on the operator's request, will transfer these to the Radioactivt. Waste Annex for storage until transfer to an authorized disposal contracter. Solidification of liquids could be done in the hood, under Health Physics supervision, or at the Annex by Health Physics.
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D Fe are recuesting an ar.endment to cur License Num'.er Sfi'!-362 tc pemit us to use up to one r.illigran of plutonium and up to one gram of uranium-235 00 3 in the pass spectroneter complex in Building 221. The operations vould _
involve sinple chenical operations, e.g., fixing the radioactive raterials;.
to filenents and using the fila ents in rass spectronetric analysis. All operations would be conducted in a:ccrdance witi procedures described in our license application catad Ceceder 16, 1975.
Sheuld you have questions or desire core infcmation, please contact Thcmas G. Hebbs at (301) 921-2247.
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