ML20056E188

Requests Response to Request for Addl Info Re 930201 Application for Amend to License R-106 within 30 Days of Ltr Date

ML20056E188
Person / Time
Site:	Oregon State University
Issue date:	08/03/1993
From:	Alexander Adams Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Andrea Johnson Oregon State University, CORVALLIS, OR
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August 3, 1993 Docket No. 50-243 Dr. A. G. Johnson, Director Radiation Center Oregon State University Radiation Center A100 Corvallis, Oregon 97331-5903

SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION We are continuing our review of your application for amendment of Facility Operating License No. R-106 for the Oregon State University TRIGA Reactor which you submitted on February 1, 1993. During our review of your application, questions have arisen for which we require additional information

- and clarification. Please provide responses to the enclosed Request for Additional Information within 30 days of the date of this letter. Following receipt of the additional information, we will continue our evaluation of your  !

application. If you have any questions regarding this review, please contact me at (301) 504-1127.

In accordance with 10 CFR 50.30(b), your response must be executed in a signed original under oath or affirmation.

This requirement affects nine or fewer respondents and, therefore, is not subject to Office of Management and Budget review under P. L.96-511.

Sincerely, Origiaal signed hv:

Alexander Adams, Jr.

Senior Project Manager Non-Power Reactors and Decommissioning Project Directorate Division of Operating Reactor Support Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

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SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION We are continuing our review of your application for amendment of Facility l Operating License No. R-106 for the Oregon State University TRIGA Reactor which you submitted on February 1, 1993. During our review of your application, questions have arisen for which we require additional information and clarification. Please provide responses to the enclosed Request for ACitional Information within 30 days of the date of this letter. Following receipt of the additional information, we will continue our evaluation of your '

1 application. If you have any questions regarding this review, please contact me at (301) 504-1127.

In accordance with 10 CFR 50.30(b), your response must be executed in a signed  ;

original under oath or affirmation.  !

l This requirement affects nine or fewer respondents and, therefore, is not subject to Office of Management and Budget review under P. L.96-511.

Sincerely, 24xb4 ,

l Alexander Adams, Jr.

Senior Project Manager Non-Power Reactors and Decommissioning Project Directorate Division of Operating Reactor Support j Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

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[ OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION DOCKET NO. 50-243

1. Your application of February 1, 1993, states that the initial  ;

criticality of a pure FLIP core required 65 elements. Is this still the smallest bounding FLIP core size?

2. Please analyze the smallest bounding core size identified in the answer to question 1 for 1.1 MW operation. Include maximum power density in a fuel element, loss of coolant accident, design basis accident,  !

reactivity accident, and cooling. Please see Amendment No. 5 to your >

Safety Analysis Report for an acceptable format for answering this '

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