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Responds to Re Faulty 1-inch UF6 Cylinder Valves, Lots 17-27,mfg by Superior Valve Co & Associated NRC Order Modifying License Re Valve Lots.Valves red-tagged & Placed in Locked,Deviant Matl Storage
ML20005G960
Person / Time
Site: Framatome ANP Richland
Issue date: 01/18/1990
From: Malody C
SIEMENS POWER CORP. (FORMERLY SIEMENS NUCLEAR POWER
To: Sjoblom G
NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
References
CWM:90:017, CWM:90:17, NUDOCS 9001230320
Download: ML20005G960 (1)


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, ADVANCEDNUCLEARFUELS CORPORATION

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January 18, 1990 i

CWM:90:017 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Attn: Mr. Glen L. Sjoblom, Acting Chief-Fuel Cycle Safety Branch Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Division of Industrial and Medical Nuclear Safety.

Washington, DC 20555 License No. SNM-1227 Docket No. 70-1257

Dear Mr. Sjoblom:

REWORK 0F FAULTY VALVES g

This is in response to your letter of December 20,1989 ' discussing the ffaulty one-inch UF6 cylinder - valves (lots 17 through :27) as manufactured by the Superior Valve Company, and the associated NRC-Order Modifying License-pertaining to those valve lots.

Upon receipt of the 1987 Order, an inspection of'our valve inventory disclosed' 96 valves from the suspect lots 17 through 22.

These valves have been " red tagged" and placed in locked, Deviant Material Storage where they remain to-date. No valves from the suspect lots have been found in-service to-date.

- i Preliminary arrangements have been made with Superior Valve; Company to rework our quarantined valves in accordance. with procedures

'pproved.by.

the.

Department of Energy.

Superior Valve ~ Company has a

rework program

. j cncompassing hundreds of such valves from many customers.

Advanced Nuclear Fuels is on their rework schedule and will be advised of a specific shipping date later in the Spring.

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I shall notify your office when those valves have left our site.

l Very truly yours, I

b C. W. Malody, Manager I

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Regulatory Compliance

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