ML20045E818
| ML20045E818 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Westinghouse |
| Issue date: | 06/28/1993 |
| From: | NRC |
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| NUDOCS 9307060084 | |
| Download: ML20045E818 (2) | |
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E UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION g..v,/
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555 0001 jun 2 81993 DOCKET:
70-1151 LICENSEE: Westinghouse Electric Corporation Columbia, South Carolina
SUBJECT:
COMBINED SAFETY AND SAFEGUARDS EVALUATION REPORT: AMENDMENT APPLICATION DATED JUNE 23, 1993, RE EXEMPTIONS FROM CERTAIN SAFETY AND SAFEGUARDS REQUIREMENTS RELATIVE TO A ONE TIME RECEIPT OF FUEL ASSEMBLIES Backaround for economic and business considerations, General Electric Company (Wilmington, SC) is shipping 252 fuel assemblies to Westinghouse for the sole purpose of interim storage pending final shipment to G.E.'s reactor customer.
The assemblies will be shipped on nine flatbed trailers (as nine shipments).
Each Model RA2/RA3 shipping package (containing two assemblies) will be tamper-safe sealed by G.E.
The assemblies are to be received by Westinghouse between June 25th and 30th, and then to be shipped to their final destination in approximately four weeks. Upon receipt, Westinghouse will visually inspect the shipments for package and tamper-safe seal integrity. Unless there is evidence of degradation of shipping package integrity, Westinghouse will not remove or alter the configuration of the shipping containers on the flatbeds.
Discussion Relative to these particular G.E. assemblies, Westinghouse has requested exemptions from the requirements of (1) conducting contamination surveys of the external surfaces of the shipping containers, (2) opening the shipping containers to perform an item count verification, and (3) inventorying the assemblies during Westinghouse's July 1993 physical inventory. Under normal special nuclear material receiving situations, Westinghouse is required to monitor the external surfaces of received packages for radioactive contamination, and to open the packages in order to perform an item count verification. To check for surface contamination on the external surfaces of the shipping packages, Westinghouse personnel would have to unfasten hold-down chains and physically move the shipping containers. Since the special nuclear material in question is contained in encapsulated fuel rods, which in turn are rigidly held together as assemblies, there is no real need to perform contamination surveys unless there is evidence of container damage.
- Likewise, as long as the integrity of container seals are verified, there is no need to open the packages to verify that each contains two assemblies. This will, of course, be done by the reactor facility when the shipment is completed. Also there is no need to physically verify the identity and special nuclear material quantity of each assembly at the time of Westinghouse's annual physical inventory.
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Cateaorical Exclusion l
Based on the information submitted by Westinghouse, the staff has determined that granting the requested exemptions will not adversely affect the public health and safety or the environment; nor will it adversely affect the common defense and security; and is otherwise in the public interest. Accordingly, the staff has determined that the criteria in 10 CFR 51.22(c)(11) for categorically excluding an action from an environmental review has been met.
Therefore, neither an Environmental Assessment nor an Environmental Impact Statement is necessary for this proposed action.
Conclusion / Recommendation The staff concludes that the requested exemptions should have no adverse affect on the public health and safety or on the environment and that they will not reduce the effectiveness.
I Principal Contributqr Donald R. Joy e
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