ML20101Q868

Submits Notification of Radioactive Sf Shipments to Include 25,000 Lbs of RQ Radioactive Matl from Univ of Missouri Research Reactor Ctr to Aiken,Sc.Forwards Classified SGs Info Re Subj Shipment,Per 10CFR73.21(b)2.W/o Encl

ML20101Q868
Person / Time
Site:	University of Missouri-Columbia
Issue date:	02/16/1996
From:	Hultsch R MISSOURI, UNIV. OF, COLUMBIA, MO
To:	Bennington G NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
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NUDOCS 9604150281
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• 050 00/N Mof-C5cy Research Reactor Center Research Park

& l4(( Columbia. Missouri 65211 ll Telephone (573) 882-4211 FAX [573] 882=3443 UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA [dc9d L/Q

/ O O O Y <9 February 16,1996 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 l

INFORMATION as per 10CFR73.21(b)2. No person may have access to Safeguards Information i unless the person has an established "need to know" for this information and is authorized per 1 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, Chattanooga, Atlanta, and Augusta, for these spent fuel shipments. Also, governors' designees of Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and South Carolina have been mailed notifications, i

The following information and the enclosed SAFEGUARDS INFORMATION are supplied to comply l with 10CFR73.37(fXi)(ii)(iii). '

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 i 785 DOE Place  !

Idaho Falls, ID 83403  ;

Phone: (208) 526-2415 j (Keith Nelson) j Receiver: Department of Energy i Westinghouse Savannah River Company 1 Savannah River Site  ;

9 731-1G Receiving  !

Aiken, SC 29802 Matthew J. BeckumQDj'i Building 244-H Phone: (803) 557-8773 h,1 l l

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1 Letter to Ms. Bennington February 16,1996 Page 2 49CFR172.202(aX1)(2X3)(4) Proper shipping name, hazard RQ radioactive material, fissile, n.o.s., radioactive class, identification number, material UN2918,25,000 lbs. gross weight l 172.203(c) RQ (Reportable Quantity) 1.5 kg of fission products; Shipment one: 4.98 kg U-235; Shipment two: 4.96 kg 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 UAlx--Al-fission product material is clad with aluminum as fuel plates of MTR-  ; type (Materials Testing Reactor) fuel elements. (iii) Activity (Curies) Shipment One: 175,600 Curies 3 Shipment Two: 168,000 Curies > 1 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. l 1 (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(bX1) that transport must be with exclusive use of shipper. (vii) Package identification number USA /5957/B( )F (Model No. BMI 1)  ! Mode of transport Highway truck, exclusive use. No transfer points. Route enclosed as Safeguards Information. Sincerely yours, Roland A. Hultsch l Reactor Physicist

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