ML20134F125
| ML20134F125 | |
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| Site: | 07000734 |
| Issue date: | 10/30/1996 |
| From: | Pierson R NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
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B j Pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-438), and Title 10 :p f Code of Federal ReFulations, Chapter I, Parts 30. 31,32,33,34,35,39,40 and 70, and in reliance on statements and representations heretofore p
% made by the licensee, a license is hereby issued authorizing the licensee to receise, acquire, possess, and transfer by product source, and special 'l
- 1) nuclear material designated below; to use such material for the purpose (s) and at the place (s) designated below; to deliver or transfer such material 'E to persons authorized to receive it in accordance with the regulations of the applicable Part(st This license shall be deemed to contain the conditions y Ispecified in section 183 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and is subject to all applicable rules, regulations and orders of the Nuclear p j Regulatory Commission now or hereafter in effect and to any conditions specified below. g 1 'E l Ucensee
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- 3 6 Byproduct. source, and/or 7. C?cmical and/or physical 8. Maximum amount that hcensee ;i l 1 special nuclear material I form may possess at any one time !
under this beense d .i j A. Uranium A. Enriched up to 19.99% A. 200 kilograms U-235 ;l .
i 1 U-235 i J i I B. Uranium B. Enriched 20 to 100% U-235 B. Less than 5000 gm* j
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1 F. Plutonium F. Plated calibration F. Less than 5 grams il 3l source total Pu* il 1 l G. Plutonium G. Solutions, precipitates G. Less than 5 grams ),
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- The sum total quantity of strategic special nuclear material possessed at any one .]
li time must be less than 5,000 grams computed by the formula: 1, fd Grams - grams U-235 in uranium enriched to 20% or more plus 2.5 (grams U-233 +
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SAFETY CONDITIONS l 3{1 i 3l l 3j i 3 i 3 SAFETY CONDITIONS g 3 i M Authorized use: For use in accordance with statements, representations, and g;fS-1.conditions contained in Part II " License Specifications" dated July 24, 1981, and lig y supplements dated March 16, and December 24, 1982; February 4, November 14, and I, gI November 15, 1983; April 10, April 12, June 28, September 4, and September 7, 198(; I g! December 5, 1985; May 23, September 25, and December 10, 1986; December 21, 1987; l, gl l
March 4, March 9, (2), March 22, April 26, August 22, September 8, and November 2, bl g 1988; May 25, and November 17, 1989; June 27, 1990; April 30 and September 27, 1991; and March 5, March 18, June 24, September 10, 1992, and January 20, 1995; and j
a j in the "SVA Decommissioning Plan" dated April 1, 1990 (submitted by letter dated p, March 30, 1990), August 22, 1990 (submitted by letter dated August 24,1990), G
@W June 15, 1992, July 12, 1994, August 23, 1994, Group 6 Laboratories unrestricted
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p use request dated August 12, 1994, and March 1, 1995, Group 7 Laboratories i, unrestricted use request dated December 5, 1995, and Group 88 Laboratories gll unrestricted use request dated August 23, 1996. 1(
g S-2. Records of all safety-related reports and analyses shall be retained as follows: hi j
$a a. Copies of criticality and radiation safety analyses shall be retained for at $
2 least 2 years or for 6 months after a project is terminated, whichever is i l
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!j b. Copies of all other safety-related records (e.g., plant alterations and 5j additions, abnormal occurrences associated with radioactivity releases, audits @t 3l and inspections, instrument calibrations, ALARA findings, training and h 3i retraining, personnel exposures, routine radiation and environmental surveys) ji 3 shall be retained for at least 2 years or longer if required by regulations.
!j S-3. Notwithstanding the statements in Section 5.4.2 in the License Specification Volume ji 5 (Part II), if double batching is not credible, the maximum safe batch size shall be jE 3 no more than 75 percent of the minimum critical mass independent of the degree of jE 3 water moderation and reflection. However, when the Th/U atomic ratio is 2 3.6 and jE 3j the H/U s 20, the maximum safe batch size may be increased to 790 g contained U-235 i E
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3 S-5. The Criticality and Radiation Safety Committee (CRSC), functioning as an ALARA i y Committee, shall meet at least annually to review (1) reports of audits and 3 inspections performed sin.e the last ALARA review and (2) employee exposures and !s i
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a effluent releases, (b) if exposurrs and releases might be lowered in accordance li ji with the ALARA concept, and (c) if equipment for effluent and exposure control is jl g being properly used, maintained, and inspected. j a
j The CRSC evaluation, recomendations, and corrective actions shall be documented l
- and the report shall be sent to the appropriate operations managers and the Vice j(i g President, Finance and Administration.
j S-6. Radiological Work Permits (RWPS) shall be issued for all unplanned or non-routine y work with licensed material not covered by a WA. The RWP shall be signed by Health f g
g Physics management or a senior staff member before related work can commence. A senior staff member shall be a Health Physics Technician having a minimum of 5 ((
g g years' experience in radiation safety. An evaluation of the safety effectiveness q H of the permit shall be made upon completion of the work.
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j Physics Manager or by a similarly qualified individual. The Health Physics Manager 8 j may delegate training in that portion of the course to an individual who is uniquely qualified to present it.
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llS-10.Thelocationofairsamplersshallbecheckedas,uellyandwhenevera equipment changes are made to verify the representativeness of work area air E
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samplirg. In addition, the location of air samplers shall be checked at the y commencenent of operations in any area that has been shutdown for more than 6 f lk months to verify the representativeness of air sampling. y g
9 3lS-II.Thelaboratcriesinwhichplutoniuminadispersibleformmaybeusedshallhave exhatst ventilation systems separate from other building exhausts and shall provide liy E
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3lS-12.SealedPlutoniumsourcesshallbesubjecttotheleaktestinoandactionsspecified in the attached " License Condition for Leak Testing Sealed Plutonium Sources,"
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N S-13. The licensee shall prepare and submit to the Chief, Licensir.g Branch, Division of i!
W Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, NMSS, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, is W Washington, DC 20555, a report whenever there is any new residential development ii W within 1 mile around the site that constitutes a significant change in parameters i' W that may be affected by the release of radioactive materials into the environment. I 1
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N S-14 Deleted by Amendment 14 dated August 3, 1990 (originally numbered S-23 in 1990 - Il n 1992 and renumbered to S-14 in Amendment 23 dated October 7, 1993). The information i g in License Condition S-23 was incorporated into License Condition S-9 by adding the i g date of May 25, 1989; License Condition S-9 later became S-1. 4 N i y S-15. At the end of plant life, the licensee shall decontaminate the site and facilities, ;
- g authorized as a place of use for special nuclear material, in accordance with the g y general decommissioning plan submitted by your letter dated July 25, 1986, and its l g
g supplement dated October 15, 1986, so that these facilities and grounds can be l g
g released for unrestricted use. The corporate commitment that funds will be made ,
y available for decommissioning the facility, provided by letter dated September 10, y 1986, is hereby incorporated as a condition of the license.
9 (l3 1 y S-16. Release of equipment, facilities, or packages to the unrestricted area or to uncontrolled areas onsite shall be in accordance with the attached " Guidelines for
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dated April 1993.
j y i, S-17. Deleted by Amendment 37, September 1996. The SVA facility has been decommissioned y
and released for general use. j S-18. Notwithstanding the statement in Section 4.2.1.4, Part II of the license, the trip E levels will be read,iusted after each monthly test of the criticality alarm system E E if the alarm point fails to activate within approximately 5 seconds, more than once j!!
% out of four trials. f S i jE 3lS-19.NotwithstandingthestatementsinSection4.2.1.4,PartIIofthelicense,no i E
% material handling shall be allowed in any area in which the required criticality jE E
j alarm system is inoperative. f M i B; S-20. Deleted by Amendment 37, September 1996.
and released for general use, The SVA facility has been decommissioned lE E
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3 N i I g SG-4.8 Deleted by Amendment 37, September 1996. Not applicable under a possession only license.
ji y ,l l SECTION 5.0 -- INVENTORY [j l l SG-5.1 Deleted by Amendment 37, September 1996. Not applicable under a possession !
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. SG-5.2 Deleted by Amer.duent 37, September 1996. Not applicable under a possession i only license.
l l l SG-5.3 Deleted by Amendment 37, September 1996. Not applicattle under a possession I only license.
5 SECTION 6.0 -- RECORDS AND REPORTS N
W SG-6.1 Deleted by Amendment 37, September 1996. Not applicable under a possession N only license.
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fE jE i Nj SG-9.1 The licensee shall follow the measures described in the physical protection E N plan entitled, " Fixed Site and Transportation Plan for the Protection of I' I Special Nuclear Material of Moderate and Low Strategic Significance," dated May N
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