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Summary of 900510 Meeting W/Util,Tlg Engineering & Black & Veatch in Rockville,Md Re Transport of Pathfinder Reactor Vessel
ML20043B145
Person / Time
Site: 07109238
Issue date: 05/23/1990
From: Osgood N
NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
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NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
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NUDOCS 9005240278
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l MEMORANDUM FOR:

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Nancy L. Osgood

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SUBJECT:

MEETING

SUMMARY

CONCERNING TRANSPORT OF PATHFINDER REACTOR 1

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' Attendees Northern States' Power NRG TLG Enaineerina

,. ' ' Dennis Zercher Marissa Garcia Abam Levin 3

A'. M. Kuroyama Nancy Osgood Thomas LaGuardia Ron Meyer~

Li Yang Iqbal Husain Michael Vaughan.

Ray Brady Dan Martin (part time)

Black & Veatch

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Mohamed Moussa.

M. Bjeldanes 1

Introduction.

A: meeting was held at the request of Northern States Power Company (NSP) at

Rockville, Maryland,'on May 10, 1990, concerning the transport of the.

The Pathfinder reactor vessel. The Pathfinder plant is.being decommissioned.

j reactor. vessel will be transported--intact. from Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to y

' Richland,- Washington. 'The fuel has been removed from the reactor vessel, but

' the. reactor' internals will remain in place. An application for certification of the reactor vessel as.a radioactive materials transport -package has been 4

received by the-NRC. The meeting was held to discuss NSP proposed responses

.to 'an 'NRC request for additional information, dated March 14,.1990. The meeting agenda' followed the items in the request for additional information.

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~ Stfuctural. Fabrication and Drawinos NSP agreed to develop more detailed drawings of the package.

NSP agreed that-welding of the nozzle plates would be performed as recommendad in NUREG/CR-3019, with several ' exceptions.- All exceptions would be explicitly identified

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- and justified. The code standards used for welding will be noted on the

' drawings. NSP agreed to provide additional information regarding package center of gravity calculations, and regarding lifting and tiedown of the package. NSP~ agreed to provide a summary sketch and table of maximum stresses.

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NSP agreed to provide the additional information requested.

s Schedule NSP hoped to provide the additional information requested by the end of May,:-

1990, if the new' package drawings could.be developed by that time. NSP stated that an approval in July would. support their proposed shipping schedule.

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