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RO UE-74-3:re Possible Loss of Snm.Lists Probable Route of out-of-core Fission Chamber from Cleveland,Oh to Plant
ML20085F481
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Site: Palisades Entergy icon.png
Issue date: 02/03/1975
From: Sewell R
CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.)
To: James Keppler
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III)
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Dear Mr. Keppler:

This letter is written to confirm previous discussions with members of your staff and to close out the possible loss of special nuclear material (SUM) as reported to you by Mr. R. B. DeWitt's TWX of January 7, 1975 The TdX dated January 7, 1975 transmitted a chreaological 11 '.1 6 v! u . c.n u 2 ec ,adine ; cne possitue loss 01 an out-or-core rission chamber containing approximately 1 7 grams of enriched uranium. This chronological listing started with the date of shipment of the fission chamber and included the efforts by Consumers Power Company to locate the fission chamber as it had not arrived at the plant in the expected time frame. The TWX concluded that the fission chamber was definitely lost.

On January 9, 1975, two days after submittal of the TWX, the fission chamber arrived at the Palisades Plant. At that time, Censumers Power Company again attempted to trace its routing in an effort to preclude a similar recurrence. We have drawn the following major conclusions with respect to the shipment:

1. Emery Air Freight acknowledged receiving the fission chamber on December h, 1974 in Cleveland, Ohio.
2. The fission chamber was shipped from Cleveland to Chicago O' Hare on about December 11, 197h. It is not clear what the status of the fission chamber was between December 4,197h and December 11,197h.
3. The fission chamber remained at O' Hare Airport (apparently in the custody of Emery Air Freight) until December 31, 1974 On December 31, 1974, the fission chamber was received by Associated Truck Lines at their Chicago terminal.

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-- Mr. J. G. KeppL / v' 2 Palisades Plant February 3, 1975 4 The fission chamber left the Associated Truck Lines terminal in Chicago on January 2, 1975 and was shown to have arrived in the Benton Harbor terminal of Associated Truck Lines on January 3,  ;

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Benton Harbor terminal until delivered to Palisades on January 9, 1975 The quantity of SIDj involved is nearly negligible. (Less than 0.5 gram is defined as negligible.) Even so, fission chambers q

are important to the operation of the Palisades reactor. The expe-  ;

rience gained with this shipment will be taken into account when j procuring fission chambers in the future.

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