ML20036A036

Informs That NRC Believes Concerns Re Kardex Unit Adequately Addressed & That SNM Can Be Loaded & Stored in Kardex Unit, Per Understanding Based on Statements in C-E That C-E Has Completed Mod & Preoperational Insp of Kardex Unit

ML20036A036
Person / Time
Site:	07000036
Issue date:	04/23/1993
From:	Adensam E NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
To:	Rode J ABB COMBUSTION ENGINEERING NUCLEAR FUEL (FORMERLY
References
TAC-L21643, NUDOCS 9305070279
Download: ML20036A036 (1)

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N Docket 70-36 APR 2 31993 License SNM-33 Mr. J. A. Rode, Plant Manager Hematite Nuclear Fuel Manufacturing Combustion Engineering, Inc.

P.O. Box 107 Hematite, MO 63047

SUBJECT:

STORAGE OF SNM IN KARDEX UNIT (TAC L21643)

This refers to Combustion Engineering's (CE) telecom on March 30, 1993, followed by letters dated April 13 and April 22, 1993, concerning the fact that the actual number of storage shelves in the Kardex unit differed from that which you had reported in your application dated February 19, 1993.

In a phone conversation between M. Tokar (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) and J.

Conant (CE) on April 6, followed by a letter dated April 7,1993, we informed you that CE should not load or store special nuclear material (SNM) in the Kardex unit until we had received and reviewed requested information concerning the root cause, safety implications, modifications to the Kardex unit, and actions taken to prevent recurrence of this type of incident.

Based on the information provided in your April 13, 1993, letter and discussions with your staff on April 14, 1993, we concurred with your proposed action to return the Kardex to its "as-designed" condition, of 330 shelves at 6-9/16 inch spacing, and to confirm that this action had been completed via a preoperational acceptance inspection. We understand, based on the statements in your April 22, 1993, letter, that CE has completed the modification and preoperational inspection of the Kardex unit and that the unit is now in conformance with the design configuration (viz., 330 shelves. at a nominal 6-9/16 inch spacing).

Therefore, we believe that our concerns regarding the Kardex unit have been adequately addressed and that SNM can be loaded and stored in the Kardex unit.

If you have any questions regarding this matter, please call me at (301) 504-2468 or Dr. Michael Tokar at (301) 504-2590 Sincerely, Gism4 Sigrai By:

Elinor G. Adensam, Acting Chief Licensing Branch Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, NMSS cc:

Mr. J. F. Conant, Manager

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