ML20085C741

Forwards Envelope Which Contains Safeguards Info Re Radioactive Spent Fuel Shipments from Univ of Mo Research Reactor.Safeguards Info & Other Info Supplied to Comply w/10CFR73.37(f)(i)(ii)(iii).W/o Encl

ML20085C741
Person / Time
Site:	University of Missouri-Columbia
Issue date:	06/07/1995
From:	Hultsch R MISSOURI, UNIV. OF, COLUMBIA, MO
To:	Bennington G NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
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NUDOCS 9506160022
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U.S. NRC, NMSS/lMNS n 1 Whiteflint North 11555 Rockville Pike

/{ /O 3 Rockville, MD 20852 la

SUBJECT:

Shipment of Spent Fuel: Radioactive Material, Fissile, N.O.S., UN2918, Highway Route Controlled Quantity.

I The enclosed envelope contains information regarding radioactive spent fuel shipments from the l University of Missouri Research Reactor. This information has been classified as SAFEGUARDS INFORMATION as per 10CFR73.21(b)2. No person may have access to Safeguards Information unless the person has an established "need to know" for this information and is authorized per 10CFR73.21(c). Regulations prevent the disclosure of this information over unsecured telephone communications except that the reporting of schedule changes are permitted to be made by phone in the form of time deviations from the original schedule. Please deliver the enclosed envelope which contains Safeguards Information to the addressee on the envelope. If this person is no longer employed at your facility or will be absent for an extended period, please call (314) 882-5205 for the correct disposition of this material.

Armed escorts have been arranged for St. Louis, Nashville, Knoxville, Asheville, and Greenville-Spartanburg, for these spent fuel shipments. Also, governors' designees of Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, North and South Carolina have been mailed notifications.

The following information and the enclosed SAFEGUARDS INFORMATION are supplied to comply '

with 10CFR73.37(O(i)(ii)(iii).

1 Shipper: University of Missouri Research Reactor Center Columbia, MO 65211 Phone: (314) 882-5205 (Roland A. Hultsch)

Carrier: Tri State Motor Transit Co l U.S. DOE Idaho Operations Office 785 DOE Place Idaho Falls, ID 83403 9506160022 950607

• Phone: (20S) 526-2415 PDR ADOCK 05000186 F PDR- (Keith Nelson)

Receiver: Department of Energy Westinghouse Savannah River Company Savannah River Site 731-1G Receiving Aiken, SC 29S02 ,

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Clo y Letter to Ms. Bennington 06/07/95 Page 2 49CFR172.202(a)(1)(2)(3)(4)

Proper shipping name, hazard RQ radioactive material, fissile, n.o.s., radioactive class, identification number, material UN2918,25,000 lbs.

gross weigt,t 172.203(c) RQ (Reportable Quantity) 1.5 kg of fission products; First Shipment: 4.8 kg of U-235 Second Shipment: 4.9 kg of U-235 49CFR172.203(d)(1)

(i) 173.435, radionuclides MFP (Mixed Fission Products) '"#

(ii) Physical and chemical form Solid metallic, UA13 and Al mixed with fission products trapped in this matrix. The UAl x--Al lission product material is clad with aluminum as fuel plates of MTR-type (Materials Testing Reactor) fuel elements.

(iii) Activity (Curies) First Shipment: 82,800 Second Shipment 79,400 49CFR173.403(1)(3) Greater than 30,000 Ci, so highway route controlled quantities.

(iv) Label category RADIOACTIVE YELLOW IJJ because it is highway route controlled quantity.

(v) Transport index Based on measurement of radiation level at 3.3 ft. from cask cover. This is measured at the time of shipment, and in our past shipments, has been < 0.5 millirem /hr.

Hence TI = .5 per 49CFR173.403(bb)(1). (The DOT has confirmed that this section, and not 49CFR173.403 ,

(bb)(2), is applicable.)

(vi) Fissile class III per 49CFR173.455(aX3). This means by 49CFR 173.457(b)(1) that transport must be with exclusive use of shipper.

(vii) Package identification number USA /5957/B( )F (Model No. BMI-1)

Mode of transport flighway truck, exclusive use. No transfer points.

Route enclosed as Safeguards Information.

Sincerely yours, Roland A. Ilultsch l Reactor Physicist l

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Enclosure:

SAFEGUARDS INFORMATION