ML20126K727
| ML20126K727 | |
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| Site: | 07000647 |
| Issue date: | 03/26/1968 |
| From: | Brown G, Hyder J US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
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| FOIA-85-229 NUDOCS 8507300433 | |
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Department of the Air Force USAF Special Weapons Center Kirtland Air Force Base New Mexico 87117 2.
SNM-597 (Docket No.70-647) Category E Priority II
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March 11 and 12,1968 Announced reinspection 4.
Persons accompanying inspector: None 5
Persons contacred:
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Lt. Col. R. C. Wolff, Director. Ikise Medical ServicesB. H. Sheets Col. William R. Morron. Vice Commander Mr. Ha rry M. Murphy, Member Radiot-o' spe Commitice.ir.1 i;-er
'I bi 2nly items of none >mphance noted.furing :he in.-peerion inv 'Ived:
F.iilure ta leak test the !O-curie Pu-ik: neut ron sealed soort e ar int
,! six rannths or less and failure to manat.ein records of the.,caled +;ura L:ek ie t< in units of microcuries. as rega: red by the licen. [f w /'/
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The la-t mqution of 'he activities authorized by Special Nueicar Mati.r tal License No.
SNM-597 (Docket Nu. 70-o47) was conducted on Decemtvr 10 loni. As a result of inar mspection Form AEC-591:nditatmg no items of nons ampliance w 23 i< ued.
Or.tanization and Administration 10 The organization of the Air Force Special Weapons Center. Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque.
New Mexico, is as ceseribed in paragraph, //-# // of the inspection rcport for tyroduct matertal License No. 30-03110-02, which was ci.nducted on the 3ame date.
9eune and Conditions of Licen-e II.
Licen,c No. SNM-597 authorize-the AFSWC tu posser and u s p'u o.am a,d aranmm en riched in the L*-23; isotope. The plutonium is auttiorized in ths
.rm of ino gram-encap.-ulated as a N-13e neut r in suures, and 120 grams ensap3ulated a thre-hold finion foils pla-10 grams in any form meluding 1 m're rogram r;f Pu-230. L'-23; is authorized in
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t' o grams t neapsulated as threshold fissic,n foils, 2 grams m any form and n w;re-n-t.ntained m neutron detector. License Condition 11 Mui:ies iba t t he
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- f. un t s..: mic rucu ries. During the insps a:on u w a-determined that the h t n, e dot -. devi r. -ess a 60-curie (100 grams) N-fk nod ron -o.er. t a4 us il as a A: t ti--ion fon ts.
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Tht "- rn pu-13e neutron source is locate ! in a watt r-fitied tank ahn h. approxiraately
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Leak test s ut the pu-be neut ron sours e a re pe rformed by wipoig the - n.r, e. ith moistened wipes and countmg them in a gas-fl.w proportu.nal counter. A review >t th teak re-r 2
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ricords indicate the sourcs tras Irak tested un 10/21/65. 7/15/66..tnd February.1967 and Septe mber 19a7. The dres of the latter two leak tests were ree srded only by month.
an t p ar cut du nvt instude the day. It was also noted ? har thw e leak te i retords do nut n<dicate the amount of removable activity detected in any fa: hion. Leak test records for the finion toils mdteate that 'he fo 13 Fu-239. U-lh and Np-237 werv leak tested m Ntay and S(pternho r.1906. and Ata rch anti Septembe r.1%7. and the leak te' t.,f the sours es had I een naltared prior rif the time of this ins;x; cts. n. however, all foils had not l'cen kaped and all assays of wiped fail 4 had not been con.pleted. Capt. Sheets assured the inspect >r that leak te..ts of these foils would le cutnpleted leefore the end of March.1%5.
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