ML20057F838
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| Site: | 05000192 |
| Issue date: | 10/13/1993 |
| From: | Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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SAFETY EVALUATION BY THE OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION RELATED TO THE ORDER TERMINATING FACILITY LICENSE NO. R-92 l
l UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN TRIGA MARK I RESEARCH REACTOR DOCKET NO. 50-192
1.0 INTRODUCTION
By letter dated May 3,1985, as supplemented on December 2,1985, the l
University of Texas at Austin (UT or the licensee) submitted a plan to dismantle and decontaminate its TRIGA Mark I reactor facility.
Following U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff review, the plan was approved l
on March 9,1987, and the licensee commenced dismantlement and decontamination.
Upon completion of the dismantlement and decontamination, the licensee submitted, by letter dated December 17, 1992, as supplemented on March 22 and May 3,1993, its report for final disposition of the facility as a basis for license termination.
On April 5 through 7 and June 1,1993, representatives from the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (0 RISE) performed a confirmatory survey at the facility under an interagency agreement and in accordance with a request for technical assistance from NRC Region IV.
2.0 EVALUATION In a memorandum dated July 28, 1993, from L. J. Callan, Director, Division of Radiation Safety and Safeguards, Region IV, to Seymour H. Weiss, Director, Non-Power Reactors and Decommissioning Project Directorate, the Region IV staff, on the basis of the ORISE confirmatory survey performed in conjunction with the Region IV final inspection and survey, concluded that the licensee l
final survay was verified and recommended that Facility License No. R-92 be terminated.
The residual contamination levels for the reactor facility comply with the criteria of Regulatory Guide 1.86, Table 1, which established acceptable residual surface contamination levels, and direct radiation levels are below 5 micro R/hr above background at 1 meter, which is the exposure limit established by the NRC. Therefore, the facility can be released for unrestricted use and the facility license terminated.
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3.0 ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATION
The Commission has prepared an environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact, which was published in the federal Reaister on oct. 13, 1993 (58 FR 53001). On the basis of the assessment and the above safety evaluation, the Commission has determined that no environmental impact statement is required and that issuance of this Order terminating the license will have no significant adverse effect on the quality of the human environment.
e 4.0 CONCLUS10H On the basis of the foregoing considerations, the staff concludes that Facility License No. R-92 can be terminated without undue risk to the health and safety of the public or workers and without any significant impact on the public or the environment.
Principal Contributor: Alexander Adams, Jr.
Date: October 13, 1993 i
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