ML20128C706

Forwards Fr Notice of Issuance of License DPR-22 & License DPR-22

ML20128C706
Person / Time
Site:	Monticello
Issue date:	09/09/1970
From:	Mccool W US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
To:	NATIONAL ARCHIVES & RECORDS ADMINISTRATION
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NUDOCS 9212040512
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DOOTIT E0 50-263 I rR2 GT/.E:) M3 CEPAR K37 ICE OF E3tL'503 0F FROVIDIm!AL OPZnATING LTCEIBE Publication of the above document at the earliest possible date would be appreciated.

Sincerely yours, W. D. McCool Secretary to the Cc= mission

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UNITED STATES ATOMIC ENERGY COWilSSION DOCKET NO. 50-263 NORTHERN STATES POWER COMPANY I l

Notice of Issuance of Provisional Operating License Notice is hereby given that, pursuant to the Initial Decision of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, dated August 24, 1970, the Atomic j l

Energy Commission (the Commission) has issued a Provisional Operatirg '

License No. DPR-22 to Northern States Power Company (the licensee) to permit fuel loading and low-power start-up testing of the Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant Unit 1, a single-cycle, forced circulation, boiling vater reactor. The facility is located in Wright County, on the licensee's site in Wright and Sherburne Cout ties, Minnesota. The reactor is designed for operation at approximately 1670 megawatts (thermal) but operation, in accordance with the provisions of Provisional Operating l

License No. DPR-22 and the Technical Specifications appended thereto, is restricted to five megawatts thermal, without the reactor vessel head in place.

l The Commission's regulatory s taf f has inspected the f acility and has determined that, for fuel loading and low-power start-up testing at power levels up to five megawatts thermal without the reactor vessel head in place, the facility has been constructed in accordance with the application, as amended, the provisions of Provisional Construction Permit No. CPPR-31, said initial decision, the Atomic Energy Act, and the Commission's regulations. The licensee has submitted proof of 1

financial protection in satisfaction of the requirements of 10 CPR Part 140.

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e The license is effective as of the date of issuance and shall expire eighteen (18) months from said date, unless extended for good cause shown, or upon earlier issuance of a superseding provisional operating license.

The matter of an initial decicion authorizing issuance of such a super-seding provisional operating license to permit full power operation is pending before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board.

Copies of (1) the Initial Decision Authorizing Provisional Operating License for Fuel Loading and Low-Power Start-Up Testing and (2) Pro-visional Operating License No. DPR-22, complete with Technical Specifica-tions, are available for public inspection in the Commission's Public Document Room, 1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. Copies of the license may be obtained upon request addressed to the Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D. C., 20545, Attention: Director, Division of Reactor Licensing. ,

Dated at Bethesda, Maryland this 2[ day of September, 1970.

TOR THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION orldniser.d h1 Pete: A. Merria _.

Peter A. Morris, Director Division of Reactor Licensing u

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, w AsmNGTON. O C. 20545 NORTHERN STATES POWER COMPANY DOCKET NO. 50-263 PROVISIONAL OPERATING L_ICENSE 1.icense No. DPR-22 Provisional Operating License No. DPR-22 is hereby issued to Northern States Power Company (Northern States), as follows:

1. This license applies to the Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant. Unit No. 1, a single cycle, forced circulation, boil-ing water reactor and electric generating equipment (the facility). The facility is located in Wright County on the Northern States' site in Wright and Sherburne Counties, Minnesota, and is described in the " Final Safety Analysis Report," as supplemented and amended (Amendment Nos. 9 through 28) .

2. Subject to the conditions and requirements incorporated herein, the Commission hereby licenses Northern States:

A. Pursuant to Section 104b of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (the Act), and 10 CFP Part 50,

" Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities,"

to possess, use, and operate the facility as a utilization facility at the designated location at the Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant; B. Pursuant to t.he Act and 10 CFR Part 70, "Special Nuclear Material, to receive, possess, and use at any one time up to 2300 kilograms uranium 235 as reactor fuel assemblies, one gram of uranium 235 as fission chambers and 16 grams of plutonium as contained in Pu-Be neutron sources in connection with operation of the facility; C. Pursuant to the Act and 10 CFR Part 30, " Rules of General Applicability to Licensing of hyproduct Material,' to receive, possess, and use in connection with operation of the facility: ten sources of Antimony 124, not to exceed 1,250 curies per sourcei 9

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L  ! one source of Americium 241, not to exceed 7 curies; i four sources of Cobalt 60, two not to e<uced 350

! microcuries per source, one not to exceed $00 i {

mil 11 curies and one not to exceed 12.5 mil 11 curies; l Strontium 90, not to exceed 1.2 microcuries per j source; cesium 137 not to exceed 8 microcuries l

! per source (all as sealed sources); Americium 241, Cesium 137 and Strontium 90 each not to exceed I  !

. 1 millicurie per nuclide, and Cobalt 60 not to exceed 27 microcuries (all without restriction

! as to chemical or physical form); and 2.702 milli-

! curies of Cesium 137, and 0.5405 millicurie of 1 Cobalt 60 (in solution form); and i

i D. Pursuant to the Act and 10 CTR Parts 30 and 70, to possess, but not separate, such byproduct and spe-3 cial nuclear material as may be produced by the j operation of the facility.

I 3. This license shall be deemed to contain and is subject to the l' conditions specified in the followinE Commission regulations:

10 CTR Part 20, Section 30.34 of 10 CFR Part 30. Section 40.41 cf 10 CFR Part 40, Sections 50.54 and 50.59 of 10 CTR Part 50, and Section 70.32 of 10 CFR Part'70; and is subject to all i

applicable provisions of the Act and to the rules, regulations.

and orders of the Commission, now or hereafter in effect; and is subject to the additional conditions specified below:

A. Maximum Power 1.evel; Reactor Vessel Head Not In Place Northern States is authorized to load. fuel and operate the f acility at power levels not in excess of five (5)

. megawatts (thermal), without the; reactor vessel head in place.

B. Technical Specifications The Technical Specifications contained in Appendix A attached hereto are hereby incorpotated in this licence. Northern States.shall operate the facility at power levels not in excess of five (5) megawatts (thermal) in accordance with the Technical- Specifica-tions applicable to such operation and may make changes therein only when authorized by the Commission in accordance with the provisions of Section.50.59 of 10 CFR Part 50.

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Northern States shall make certain reports in accordance with the requirements of the Technical Specifications.

D. _Rocords Northern States shall keep facility operating records in accordance with the requirements of-the Technical Specifications.

4 Northern States shall observe such standards'and requirements for the protection of the environment as are validly imposed pursuant to authority established under Federal and State law and as are determined by the Commission to be applicable to the facility covered by this provisional operating license.

This condition does not apply to (a) radiological effects since such effects are dealt with in other provisions of this operating license, or (b) matters of water quality covered by Section 21(b) of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended.

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This license is effective as of the date of issuance and shall expire eighteen (18) months from said date, unless extended for good- cause shown, or upon the earlier issuance of a superseding operating license.

FOR THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION c:Mel 51t"8 D gm A. tams poter A. Morris, Director Division of Reactor Licensing

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Appendix A - Technical Specifications Date of Issuance: SEP - 81970 I