ML20091R825

Submits Info Re Radioactive Spent Fuel Shipments from Univ of Mo Research Reactor.Info Classified as Safeguards Info Per 10CFR73.21(b)2

ML20091R825
Person / Time
Site:	University of Missouri-Columbia
Issue date:	07/14/1995
From:	Hultsch R MISSOURI, UNIV. OF, COLUMBIA, MO
To:	Bennington G NRC
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NUDOCS 9509070186
Download: ML20091R825 (2)

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v~ OSo e o @b Cc2Oy I A2 Idz2 Research Reactor Center ll Research Park Ccaumbia, Missouri 65211 UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI COLUMBIA **fy$1$882j 3 July 14,1995 Ms. Gloria Bennington Spent Fuel Project Office U.S. NRC, MS TWFN 8 F-5 1 Whiteflint North 11545 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 20852-2738-

SUBJECT:

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

The enclosed envelope contains information regarding radioactive spent fuel shipments from the 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(fXiXii)(iii). l Shipper: University of Missouri )

Research Reactor Center Columbia, MO 65211 Phone: (314) 882-5205 (Roland A. Hultsch)

Carrier: Tri-State Motor Transit Co U.S. DOE Idaho Operations Office 785 DOE Place Idaho Falls,ID 83403 Phone: (208) 526-2415 (Keith Nelson)

Receiver: Department of Energy Westinghouse Savannah River Company Savannah River Site 731 1G Receiving Aiken, SC 29802 Matthew J. Beckum Building 707-1H 7 Phone: (803) 557-8773

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4 49CFR172.202(aXIX2X3X4)

Proper shipping name, hazard RQ radioactive material, fissile, n.o.s., radioactive

- class, identification number, material UN2918,25,000 lbs.

j gross weight i 172.203(c) RQ (Reportable Quantity) 1.5 kg of fission products; 5.0 kg U-235 i- 49CFR177 a03(d)(1) t (i) 173.435, radionuclides MFP (Mixed Fission Products)'

W f I (ii) Physi':al and chemical form Solid metallic, UAls and Al mixed with fission products trapped in this matrix. The UAl,-Al-fission product material is clad with aluminum as fuel plates of MTR-j - type (Materials Testing Reactor) fuel elements.

I (iii) Activity (Curies) '200,600 4

49CFR173.403(1X3) . Greater than 30,000 Ci, so highway route controlled '

quantities.

. - (iv) Label category RADIOACTIVE YELLOW III because it is highway i

route controlled quantity.

!' (v) Transport index Based on measurement of radiation level at 3.3 ft, from 2 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(bbXI). (The DOT has confirmed that this section, and not 49CFR173.403 (bbX2), is applicable.)

i (vi) Fissile class III per 49CFR173.455(aX3). This means by 49CFR 173.457(bX1) that transport must be with exclusive use of shipper.

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

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

Route enclosed as Safeguards Information.

i l Sincerely yours, Roland A. Hultsch Reactor Physicist

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