ML20003H619
| ML20003H619 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | 07000687 |
| Issue date: | 04/23/1981 |
| From: | Rouse L NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| To: | Miller W NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION (ADM) |
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| NUDOCS 8105060513 | |
| Download: ML20003H619 (2) | |
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EMORANDUM FOR: William O. Miller, Chief License Fee Management Branch, ADN g
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SUBJECT:
FEE CATEGORY ASSIGNMT FOR LICENSE NO. 5%G39 y
This refers to your memorandum of January 2,1981 concerning the fee category assignment for SNM-639 issued to Union Cartide Corporation UCC)atTuxedo.NewYork. Please accept my apology for not getting back to you sooner.
W3 have consulted with our Division of Safeguards on the questions posM in your memorandum and a copy of a note on this matter from George W.Jkitorkle, Chief. Physical Security Licensing Branch, to me is enclosed. On the basis of these discussions with Safeguards staff (including members of the Material control and Accountability Branch), following is the infonnation you requested:
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"The actual amount of U-235 UCC is allowed to possess and use under their license."
Subsequent to t..a issuance of Amendnent No. 3 on March 26, 1979, License No. S%639 authorizes a total possession of'13 kg of U-235 as high erriched uranium. The material may be in unsealed form.bbut Section 9 of Miterials and Plant Protection Amendnent WP-3, as issued January 30, 1979, limits the quantity of U-235 as high enriched uranitan, in unirradiated fonn to less than 5 kg. Thus, while the license permits a total possession of 13 kg U-235 as high enriched uranitsn only up to j
5 kg may be possessed as unirradiated material. The license would i
permit possession of up to 5 kg U-235 unirradiated and 7 kg U-235 1
irradiated material 2.
"A description of the authorized use of the 13 kg of U-235."
The licensee's operations under License No. S%639 may be briefly
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High enriched uranium as unirradiated UO is 1
described as follows:
received and processed into the form of target material for ins $rtion 1
into the UCC reactor. After irradiation of the U-235 targets in the reactor, they are transferred to the UCC hot cells for dissolution omeEy W ^"'>
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and processing to recover selected radioisotopes for subsequent sale and distribution (primarily medical radioisotope users). The remaining U-235 and fission products from the dissolved irradiated targets are acetanulated and stored for a. period of time. Until recently the accu-mulated solutions, after solidification, were shipped for disposal as wasta. On June 27, 1980, the license was amended to authorize a further waste processing step in the hot cells that enables precipita-tion of the uranium in the waste.
The supernate from the precipitation step, containing about 50 percent of the fission products and small quantities of uraniisa, is solidified and shipped as waste for disposal. The precipitate, sontaining most of the uranium and the remaining fission products, is calcined and then shipped to the Savannah River Project for reprocessing and recovery of the remaining enriched un nium.
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"Your opinion as to whether there is a conflict between what the license authorizes and the safeguards amendment (PPP-3) issued January 20, 3979.
In addition, during the perina between thrch 26, 1979 and June 27 / 1980,.
was the irradiated fuel authorized by the license for storage onty?"
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As explained in Item 1 above, we see no conflict between the possession limits and license conditions as authorized ih the license by the Division of Fuel Cycle and Material Safety and the conditions in the safeguards seendment, as issued by our Division of Safeguards. With respect to the period between March 26, 1979 and June 27, 1980, the answer to the question is no. As explained in Item 2 above, the license has authorized processing of the irradiated U-235 targets (not fuel) in the hot cells throughout this period. The June 27, 1980 date is significant only in that an addi-tional processing step was authorized.
In simmary, with respect to fee categorization we may have a unique situation not contemplated by(and environmental, as applicable) point of radiological and the fee structure. From the view criticality safety aspects, the license is clearly in Category ID. However, for safeguards aspects, the activities from the licensing and inspection standpoint say more closely approach Category IG.
If you have any further questions concerning the safeguards aspects. I suggest you contact George McCorkle, Chief. Physical Security Licensing Branch (74018),
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