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Forwards Requests for Addl Info Re Certificate of Compliance 9167 for Models 3206B,3227B & 3218 Shipping Packages.Nrc Must Be Notified within 30 Days of Receipt of Ltr When Info Will Be Provided
ML20057D171
Person / Time
Site: 07109167
Issue date: 09/28/1993
From: Chappell C
NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
To: Podolak L
AMERSHAM SEARLE (SUBS. OF G.D. SEARLE & CO.)
References
NUDOCS 9310010212
Download: ML20057D171 (2)


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Dear Ms. Podolak:

This refers to your application dated February 17, 1993, as supplemented July 30, 1993, requesting renewal of Certificate of Compliance No. 9167 for the Model Nos. 3206B, 32278 and 3218 shipping packages.

In connection with our review of the July 30, 1993, supplement, we need the information identified in the enclosure to this letter.

Please advise us within 30 days from the date of this letter when this information will be provided. Additional information requested by this letter should be submitted in the form of revised pages.

If you have any questions regarding this matter, we would be pleased to meet with you and your staff.

Dr. Carl Withee is the project manager for our review of your application.

Dr. Withee may be contacted at (301) 504-2358.

Sincerely, Driginal Shmi by Cass H. Ciapp;l Cass R. Chappell, Section Leader Cask Certification Section Storage and Transport Systems Branch Division of Industrial and Medical Nuclear Safety, NMSS

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Doeratina Procedures. Acceptance Tests and Maintenance Proaram 1.

Revise the application to show that in the test for removable surface 2

contamination, the allowable filter paper activity for a wipe of 100 cm is 0.0001 pCi for alpha activity (f"ee Sections 7.1, 7.2, and 7.3).

Note that the allowed contents include kn.

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The radiation dose units in Sections 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, and 8.2 should be millirem /hr instead of mR/hr. Note that a radiation survey with both gamma and neutron meters is specified in the procedures.

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Revise Section 8.1, Acceptance Tests, to clarify that the containers will be acceptance tested in accordance with the Amersham Corporation's Quality Assurance Program.

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Revise Section 8.1.5, Tests for Shielding Integrity, to specify that the radiation dose rate readings must be properly scaled to the maximum contents of the package.

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