ML20132D025
| ML20132D025 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | 05000054 |
| Issue date: | 03/26/1985 |
| From: | Bentele R MALLINCKRODT, INC. |
| To: | NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY) |
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| FOIA-85-266 NUDOCS 8505280373 | |
| Download: ML20132D025 (1) | |
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675 ucconneri ei.e Raymond F. Bentele P O Bon 5640 P mceni cwi e s c.i... css.ce' March 26, 1985 siaguo,gg e
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Secretary Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.
20555 Attention:
Chief, Docketing and Service Section Re:
Operating License Transfer Application for Sterling Forest Research Reactor (Facility Operating License No. R-81)
Dear Mr. Secretary:
I understand that the Commission presently has under
. review an application by Union Carbide' Corporation to
. transfer an operating license for the Sterling Forest research reactor to Medi-Physics, a
subsidiary of Hoffman-LaRoche.
This is to advise you that Mallin-ekrodt, Inc. intends to file a petition for leave to intervene.in that proceeding within the next ten days, and to request that the Commission withhold ap-proval of the pending transfer application until it has had an opportunity to consider the issues to be presented in our petition for leave,to intervene.
In 1900-81 Mallinckrodt submitted a bid for the Ster-N ling Forest reactor but the bid was rejected by Union Carbide.
The reactor is _ the only United States source capable of producing fission molybdenum 99 on a commercial basis with regular deliveri,es.
The only other North American source for that isotope is the Atomic Energy Commission Ltd. of Canada.
If the transfer application is approved by the Commission, it would leave the only available sources of molyb-denum 99 in the hands of Mallinckrodt's foreign com-petitors.
As we plan to show in our petition for leave to intervene, the transfer would be inimical to the common defense and security and to the health and safety of the public and should therefore be denied.
Yourg#very truly,
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Raymond F.
Bentele cc:
Robert J.
Ross, Esq.
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