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Safety Evaluation Supporting Issuance of Amend 1 to License SNM-1901,changing Responsibility for Health Physics Program & Changing Authorized Enrichment Limit of Fission Chambers & Counters.Incomplete License Amend Encl
ML20027E839
Person / Time
Site: 07002945
Issue date: 10/29/1982
From: Crow W, Serini B
NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
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OCT 2 91982 DOCKET N0; 70-2945 LICENSE NO.: SNM-1901 j

LICENSEE:

Union Electric Company

SUBJECT:

SAFETY EVALUATION REPORT - REVIEW OF LICENSE i

AMENDMENT APPLICATION DATED OCTOBER 21, 1982 I.

Background

. By letter dated October 21, 1982, Union Electric Company requested authorization to change the responsibility for the Health Physics 1

Program at the Callaway Nuclear Plant, Unit-1, from the Assistant.

Superintendent, Engineering-Radiation-Chemical to the Superintendent, Health Physics.

When Materials License No.- SNM-1901 was issued on October 4,1982, the maximum U-235 enrichment of the uranium in the fission chambers and counters was incorrectly specified as 90 w/o.. The review of the amendment application cf October 21, 1982, will also include the correction of the uranium enrichment in the fission chambers and counters.

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Discussion 1

The Assistant Superintendent, Engineering-Radiation-Chemical, who was responsible for.the Health Physics Program, reported directly to the Plant Superintendent. Under the reorganization, the_

Superintendent, Health Physics, will be responsible for the Health Physics Program. The latter reports directly to the Assistant Manager-Technical Services who reports to the Manager, Callaway Plant. The Superintendent, Health Physics, has the same minimum technical qualifications and the same radiation safety responsibilities as the Assistant Superintendent Engineering-Radiation-Chemical had.-

l Therefore, authorizing the requested change in responsibility for i

the Health Physics Program will not affect the radiological safety, nuclear safety, or other parameters on which the issuance of tt:e 1

license was based.

The fission chambers and counters. in the form of U4' or U 0, were 38 incorrectly specified as having a maximum U-235 enrithment of 90 w/o in the license dated October 4, 1982 Changing the authorized enrichment limit of the 4 grams of U-235 in the chambers and counters to any enrichment will not have any significant effect on the radiolog-ical safety, nuclear safety, or other parameters on which the issuance i

of the license was based.

III. General l

The amendment application was discussed with Ms. Sandra Clingman, i

Region III Resident Inspector,and with Mr. Gordon Edison, NRR Project 8211160242 821029 PDR ADOCK 07002945 C

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IV. Recommendations On the basis of the above, the staff reconnends the requested authorization for a change in responsibility for the liealth Physics Program and a change in the authorized enrichment limit of the fission chambers and counters.

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Barry L. Scrini Barry L. Serini Uranium Process Licensing Section Uranium Fuel Licensing Branch Division of Fuel Cycle and Material Safety, INSS Oric!nal Signed by }6'

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Pursuant to the Atorme I nergy Act of 1954, as amended, the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 (Public law 93-438). and Tiite 10 j Q Code of I ederal Regulations. Chapter 1. Parts 30. 31,32. 33,31. 35,36. 40 and 70, and in reliance on statements and representations j

% heretofore ma le by the licensee, a license is hereby issued authorizing the licensee to receise, acquire possess, and transfer byproduct.

t sourte, and special nuclear material designated below ; to use such material for the purpose (s) and at the place (s) designated below; to

/1 deliver or tonsfer suth material to Persons authorized to receive it in accordance with the regulations of the appheable Part(s);and to.

naport much byproduct and source material. This license shall be deemed to contain the cor. titions specified in Section 183 of the L Atomic I nergy Act of 1954. as amended, and is subject to all applicable r des regulatior:s and orders of the Nuclear Regulatory :

y Commission now or hereafter in effect and to any conJitions specified below.

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Union Electric Company

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the licensee's application dated June 26, 1981 and supplements dated February 5 and N

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The licensee's Callaway Nuclear Plant Unit 1, in Callaway County, Missouri.

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!11. The minimum technical qualifications for the Superintendent, Health Physics, responsible l l for the Health Physics Program at the Callaway Nuclear Plant, Unit 1, shall be at 1l least a B.S. degree in Radiation Safety or equivalent and 2 years of experience in g;

radiation safety or related fields.

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