ML20010E327
| ML20010E327 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 08/12/1981 |
| From: | Peterson M NRC OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS (OIP) |
| To: | NRC OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS (OIP) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8109030352 | |
| Download: ML20010E327 (2) | |
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On August 10, 1981, Transnuclear, Inc. requested NRC to renew import license ISNM01698 <hich was inadvertently allowed to expire on August 1, 1981.
The applicant has requested the license renewal be issued on an exp6dited basis, because material which would have been shipped against the license is ready for immediate expoft from France. The total quantity of material requestad for inooft amounts to 271.966 kilograms of uranium, containing 187.310 kilograms U-235 and 5.842 kilograms of plutonium over a 2-year period.
The conditions of the license would remain the same as for the previous import license ISNM01698.
ISNM01698 was_ issued to Transnuclear on July 18, 1977 after Commissioner review-(SECY-77-384) and subsequently amended on May 26, 1978 and August 28, 1979.
The license had authorized the import of 643.058 kilograms of uranium, containing 459.507 kilogrus U-235 and 2.406 kilograms of plutonium in the form of irradiated research reactor fuel elements from EURATOM.
Shipments under this import license had been taking place since 1977 with an average of two shipments per month.
The actual quantity of material now ready for import amounts to approximately 3.350 kilograms of uranium, containing 2.370 kilograms U-235 and 0.031 has informed NRC that two more shipments of spent fuel ' port, Transnuclear kilograms of plutonium.
In addition to this proposed im from the Osiris reactor) will be ready for export from France within a month.
Each of these shipments will amount to 10.238 kilograms of uranium and.032F kilograms of plutonium.
The renewal request would cover the same material as was authorized in previous import license ISNM01698 and represents no material change in <:
circumstances from conditions and findings which existed at the time of the earlier imports under license ISNM01698.
All of the material is in the form of irradicted research reactor fuel from EURATOM being returned to DOE facilities at Savannah River for reprocessing and recovery of residual uranium. The fuel will be packaged in the same type cask (IU-04-Pegase, Certificate Number USA /0100/B(U)(F) a~nd transported in the same mode as that under import license ISNM01698. The' import does not present an undue risk to health and safety or to the environment and will not be inimical to the common defense and security.
In. order to expedite the. licensing process for the shipment that is ready.
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should be issued, one in the amount to cover the import of the immediate shipment and the two anticipated shipments (ISNM81016), and another one (ISNM81017) to cover the remainder of the material requested for import.
ISNM81016 would authorize the import of 30.714 kilograns uranium, containing 27.180 kilograms of U-235 and.096 kilograms of plutonium with an expiration date of December 1, 1981.
It would be issued without the normal delay for public input to the licensing process under regulations permitting exception for such purpose.
ISNM081017 would authorize the import ~ of 241.252 kilograms of uranium, containing 160.13G kilograms U-235 and 5.746 kilograns of plutonium, which is the amount of material requested by Transnuclear less the amounts issued in ISNM81016. This license would be issued only after the required time for public input had expired.
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