ML20133B214
| ML20133B214 | |
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| Site: | 05000208 |
| Issue date: | 06/13/1985 |
| From: | Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| NUDOCS 8508060104 | |
| Download: ML20133B214 (2) | |
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SAFETY EVALUATION REPORT BY THE OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION SUPPORTING ORDER TERMINATING FACILITY LICENSE NO. W T28 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH REACTOR DOCKET N0. 50-208 Introduction By letter dated Ma'rch 27, 1985, Columbia University requested that the facility operating lic$nse for their 250 kw TRICA Mark II research reactor be terminated.
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Although the reactor was licensed in 1077, it was never fueled or operated.
Further, the University has no plans to operate the reactor within the foreseeable future.
Evaluation The Columbia University Research Reactor has never been operated.
- Further, the reactor was never fueled nor was there ever any fuel at the site. Thus, no radioactive effluents were ever produced or released and there never was any radioactive contamination of the facility or any of its components.
The licensee has physically removed the control rod drives from the reactor, leaving the control rods permanently and fully inserted in the reactor core structure. The control wiring, between the reactor and the control room, has also been removed. These actions, taken together with the non-availability of fuel, assure the non-operability of the reactor.
This facility license termination does not involve a significant hazards consideration, because the action does not involve a significant increase in the probability or consequences of accidents previously evaluated, it does not involve a significant reduction in a safety margin, and does not create the possibility of a new or different kind of accident from any accident previously evaluated.
There is no residual radiation or radioactive contamination in this reactor facility; therefore, it meets the guideline values of Regulatory Guide 1.86.
Accordingly, all recuirements and criteria for terminatina the license have been met by the licensee.
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. Environmental Consideration This amendment changes requirerents with respect to the installation or use of a facility component located within the restricted area, as defined in 10 CFR Part 20. The amendrent involves no significant hazards ~ consideration, there is no significant change in the types or significant ircrease in the amounts of ary effluents that may be released offsite, and there is no significant increase in individual or cumulative occupational radiation categorical exclusion set forth in 10 CFR 51.22 (gibility criteria for exposure. Accordingly, this action meets the eli c)(9). Pursuant to 10 CFR 51.22(bi, no environmental inpact statement or environmental assessnent need be prepared in connection with the issuance of this order.
Cenclusion Based on the foregoing considerations, the staff concludes that the proposed facility license termination can be nade without undue risk to the health and safety.of the public or operators, and without any significant impact on the i
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Principal Contributor: Angela T. Chu Dated: June 13,1985 4
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