ML20073G839
| ML20073G839 | |
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| Site: | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
| Issue date: | 04/25/1991 |
| From: | Harris D RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE, TROY, NY |
| To: | Michaels T NRC |
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| NUDOCS 9105060049 | |
| Download: ML20073G839 (2) | |
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iN, W i i; & i :, ry i k u April 25,1991 g gf Mr. Theodore Michaels U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Mailstop 11-b-20 Washington, DC 20555
Dear Sir:
Please amend 1.icense CX-22 (Docket No. 50 225), Section 2.11.2 to:
2 Pursuant to the Act and 10 CFR Part 70, " Domestic Licensing of Special Nuclear Material," to receive, possess and use at any one time up to 25.92 kilograms of contained uranium-235 in SPERT (F-1) fuel pins and uranium fuel in the form of low enriched (<4.8 w/o) light water reactor type fuel of typical power reactor desibn, and up to 80 grams of plutonium encapsulated in plutonium-beryllium neutron sources, in connection with operation of the facility in addition please amend Appendix A, Technical Specifications, Sections 5A.2 _
and 5A.3, to the text given in Attachment A.
In addition please amend Appendix A, Technical Specifications, Section 1.0.0 by deleting "(Core A or Core ll)" from line 5.
Please note that when experimental fuelis not in use it will be stored in an approved sealed shipping container in the reactor room. Criticality and radiation analyses are carried out for this fuel in the shipping containers before delivery.
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LICENSE AUTHORITY FILE COPY 2-H. iThe receipt, possession and use of the byproduct and special nuclear materials as authorized by this license will be in accordance with the Commission's regulations in 10 CFR Parts 30 and 70, including Sections 30.33,70.23 and 70.31, 2? Facility-Operating License No'. CX-22 is hereby amended in its entirety to read as follows!
A; ThisLlicense applies to the critical experiment facility owned by _
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (hereinafter RPI or the licensee). The facility is located in Schenectady, New York, and is described in the application dated May 14,
-1979, as supplemented.
- p. _ -Subject to the conditions and requirements incorporated herein, the Commission hereby licenses the RPI:
il . Pursuant to Section104c of the Act and10 CFR Part 50," Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities," to possess, use and operate l the facility as a utilization facility at the designated location in Schenec_tady, New York,in accordance with the procedures and limitations set forth in this
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- 2. Pursuant to the Act and .10 CFR Part 70," Domestic Licensing of Special
- Nuclear Material," to receive, possess and use at any one time up to'25.92 kilograms of contained uranium 235 in SPERT (F-1) fuel pins and in uranium fuel in the form of low enriched (<4.8 w/o) light water reactor type fuel of typical power reactor design, and up to_80 grams of plutonium encapsulated irj plutonium-beryllium neutron sources, in connection with -
operation of the facility.
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- 3. - . Pursuant to the Act and 10 CFR Part 40," Domestic Licensing of Source Material;" to receive, possess and 'use up to 6 kilograms of depleted uranium and 100 grams of normal uranium in connection with operation of the facility, and
- 4. Pursuant to the Act and 10 CFR Part 30," Rule as of General Applicability to Domestic Licensing of Byproduct Materials" and Part 70, to . :
possess /but not to separate, such byproduct and special nucibar materials as may be produced by the operation of the critical facility.
- 5. Delete. -(This condition is deleted because it authorized possession of 21.12 kilograms of SPERT (F-1) fuel pins. This condition has now been 3
-included in License Condition No. 2.U.2).
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