ML20002C144
| ML20002C144 | |
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| Site: | 07001007 |
| Issue date: | 11/10/1980 |
| From: | Crow W, Stevenson R NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
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| NUDOCS 8101090351 | |
| Download: ML20002C144 (2) | |
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%.N' NOV 101980 DOCKET NO.:
70-1007 APPLICANT:
General Electric Company (GE)
FACILITY:
San Jose Plant San Jose, California
SUBJECT:
REVIEW 0F APPLICATION TO AMEND LICENSE CONDITIONS CONCERNING VENTILATION MEASUREMENTS AND EMERGENCY PLANNING, JUNE 27,1980, 07001007A0lS
Background
The current license (SNM-54) for the General Electric San Jose plant limits the possession to one effective kilogram of enriched uranium and 400 grams of plutonium as sealed sources.
Condition No. 27 of License SNM-54 grants an exemption to the criticality monitoring requirements for each area where specified limits on the quantity and form of SNM preclude criticality.
Amendment No. 2 to License SNM-54, issued June 19, 1978, institutes Condition No. 33 which exempts GE from the evacuation drill requirements of 10 CFP.
70.24 whenever all areas of the San Jose facilities are exempt from the monitoring requirements of 70.24 in accordance with Condition No. 27.
The subject application requests:
1.
Exemption from the criticality emergency plan requirement of Annex B to the license when all areas of the San Jose facilities are exempt from the criticality monitoring provisions of 10 CFR 70.24 pursuant to License Condition No. 27.
2.
Exemption from periodic drills of the radiation emergency plan when the exemption requirements of Condition No. 33 are met and all SNM at the San Jose site is unirradiated.
3.
Exemption from the requirement for annual ventilation flow rate checks of Condition No. 23 for areas where there is no SNM activity.
Discussion The activities with uranium at the GE San Jose site are restricted to research and development and to the manufacture of instrumentation devices containing, in general, only milligram quantities of highly' enriched uranium. As noted above, all plutonium must be held as sealed sources.
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Thus, the quantities and forms of special nuclear material have to be such that there is no significant probability of accidental release of radioactive material.
The requested exemptions from emergency planning repr'ers ats are based on e
the limited quantities and forms of the special nuc' ear 4)terial (SNM) which preclude accidental criticality and radiation emergeocles. Forthermore, there is no irradiated SNM on the San Jose site.
The proposed license amendments were discussed in a telecon on October 10, 1980, with Messrs. Cooley and Thomas of the Region V Office of Inspection and Enforcement. Although they had no objection to the proposed amendments, they noted that the license should be.larified to include the 400 gram plutonium possession limit as part of the one effective kilogram.
This change in the possession limit was discussed with Mr. G. E. Cunningham of General Electric Company on October 29, 1980, and he agreed to inclusion of the Pu-239 and Pu-241 (in the sealed sources) in the one effective kilogram.
Conclusion and Recommendation Based on the facts summarized above, the proposed amendments to the GE license should have no adverse effects on safety or on the environment.
Issuance of the requested license amendment is recommended. The amendment should change the possession limit to include the fissile content of the sealed sources in the one effective kilogram, as requested by Region V, Office of Inspection and Enforcement.
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R. L. Stevenson Uranium Process Licensing Section Uranium Fuel Licensing Branch Division of Fuel Cycle and
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