ML20071N623

Forwards Licensee to ORNL Requesting Shipment of DOE-owned MTR Type Reactor Fuel Using Hfir Spent Fuel Shipping Cask

ML20071N623
Person / Time
Site:	University of Virginia
Issue date:	09/30/1982
From:	Benneche P VIRGINIA, UNIV. OF, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA
To:	Rozier Carter Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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NUDOCS 8210080237
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8o UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE CH ARLOTTESVILLE. 22908 CEPARTMENT OF NUCLEAR ENGIN EERING AND ENGINEERING PHYSICS TELE

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Mr. Robert E. Carter Division of Reactor Licensing Licensing and Special Project Branch U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C. 20555

Dear Mr. Carter:

For your information a copy of a letter addressed to Mr. Joel Lenhard is enclosed. This letter concerns the University of Virginia Reactor Facility's desire to ship Department of Energy owned FTTR type reactor fuel using the llFIR spent fuel shipping cask. If you have any questions or suggestions about this fuel shipment as outlined in the letter please contact at your earliest convenience.

Sincerely yours, M

Paul E. Benneche, Research Engineer UVA Reactor Facility PEB:ph Encl.

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, SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE CH ARLOTTESVILLE. 22901 DEPARTMENT OF NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND ENGINEERING PHYSICS TELEPHONE: 304 924 7136 1:.EACTOR FACILITY September 29, 1982 Mr. Joel A. Lenhard Assistant Manager for Energy Research and Development Oak Ridge National Laboratory Department of Energy P.O. Box E Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830

Dear Mr. Lenhard:

The University of Virginia is currently in possession of 27 Department of Energy owned MTR ' type fuel elements which we would like to ship from our reactor facility to a DOE licensed reprocessing facility. We had originally intended to ship the fuel to Savannah River but were informed in March 1982 that all MTR fuel would have to be shipped to Idaho Falls. Our facility has reserved funds for the shipment to South Carolina but does not have the financial resources to ship to Idaho Falls by commercial shipper.

We would like to ship this fuel as soon as possible in order to make room for 25 new elements which have been fabricated for us by Atomics International. We request the use of the HFIR Spent Fuel Element Shipping Cask to transfer the fuel from Charlottesville, Virginia to Idaho Falls, Idaho. I have been told that the cost of using this cask would be considerably less than the amount charged by a commercial shipper and we are prepared to pay the full cost of the shipment. Since the fuel is the property of DOE we also request that DOE take possession of the fuel at our facility and thus also act as the shipper of record. This procedure is also necessary since the HFIR cask is not licensed by the NRC and our r facility being a NRC licensee, must use a NRC licensed shipping .

cask if we are to be the shipper.

A complete description of the fuel to be shipped was forwarded to Savannah River in October, 1981 and was accepted for shipment in January 1982. The fuel as described will not fit in the HFIR

! cask so will need to be trimmed by sawing off some of the aluminum structure on one end of the elements. This will be done as we transfer the fuel elements from our reactor pool to the shipping cask.

Please contact me as soon as possible as to whether or not the IIFIR cask can be made available to make the two shipments necessary l to transfer the fuel which we have to Idaho Falls. If it is determined that such shipments can be made I will also need to know possible L

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• f Mr. Joel A. Lenhard Page 2 September 29, 1982 dates for the shipment and what additional information will be required of our facility before the shipments can be commenced.

Sincerely yours, Ad2ELak Paul E. Benneche, Research Engineer UVA Reactor Facility cc: Harold Young, DOE William Pryor, DOE Robert Carter, NRC l

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