ML20012A067

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Advises That Federal Govt Funding Not Available for Conversion of Nuclear Science Ctr Triga Reactor from High Enriched U to Low Enriched U Fuel During FY90.Reactor Does Not Have Further Plans for Conversion in 1990
ML20012A067
Person / Time
Site: 05000128
Issue date: 02/28/1990
From: Feltz D
TEXAS A&M UNIV., COLLEGE STATION, TX
To:
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
References
NUDOCS 9003080232
Download: ML20012A067 (1)


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SUBJECT:

Letter of Submittal Indicating No Federal Funds Available for '!'

Conversion of the Texas Engineering Experimerit Station / Texas A&M. University System, Nuclear Science Center Reactor (NSCR)

From the Use of HEU Fuel to LEU Fuel i

REFERENCE:

License R-83 Docket No'. 50-128

Dear. Sir:

i In accordance with U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Rule 10CFR Part 50-614,c,(2),

-(11), notice is herewith submitted that Federal Government funding is not available for conversion of the Nuclear Science ' Center TRIGA Reactor (NSCR) from HEU to LEU "

fuel ' during Fiscal Year 1990.-

The Director,: Division of University and Industry Programs, Office of Field Operations Management, Office of Energy Research, Department of . Energy "has informed the .NSCR licensee by letter ' that such funds are -

not available.

' The 'NSCR does not have further plans' for conversion in 1990 and will notify the Commission by March of 1991 if funds' have been made available in Fiscal Year 1991 -

for. conversion.

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. Sincerely, s

Donald E. Feltz EDirector DEF/ym oc: Dr. K. R. Hall, Deputy Director, Texas Eng. Exp. Station Dr'. K. L. Peddicord, Asst. Director, Texas Eng. Exp'. Station Dr. J. W. Poston, Head, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering

.Mr. F. Jennings, Chairman, Reactor Safety Board Dr. J. A. Reuscher, Director, Nuclear Research Reactor Programs

-Mr. T. S. Michaels, Project Manager, USNRC 9003080232 900228 ADOCK 0500012G k $[

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