ML20137A507
| ML20137A507 | |
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| Site: | 05000072 |
| Issue date: | 03/14/1997 |
| From: | Martin T NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned) |
| To: | UTAH, UNIV. OF, SALT LAKE CITY, UT |
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| NUDOCS 9703200356 | |
| Download: ML20137A507 (4) | |
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION i
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f ORDER TERMINATING AMENDED FACILITY OPERATING LICENSE NO. R-25 By application dated July 17, 1990, as supplemented on July 18, 1990, and June 12, 1991, the University of Utah (the licensee) requested from the U.S.
l Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the Commission) authorization to dismantle and dispose of the component parts of the AGN-201 Research Reactor (AGN-201 or the reactor) located on the licensee's campus in Salt Lake City, Utah. The letter of July 17, 1990, contained a request that upon successful completion of decommissioning, authorization be given for termination of Amended Facility Operating License No. R-25.
A " Notice of Proposed Issuance of Orders Authorizing Disposition of Component Parts and Terminating Facility License," was published in the Federal Reaister on May 9, 1991 (56 FR 21508).
No requests for a hearing were received.
By Order dated August 1, 1991 (56 FR 37733), the Commission authorized dismantling of the reactor and disposition of component parts as proposed in the decommissioning plan of the licensee.
By letter dated April 13, 1994, as supplemented on March 17 and 22, 1995, and February 6, 1996, the licensee submitted "A Summary of the Decommissioning Process of the University of Utah AGN-20lM Reactor No. 107."
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The reactor fuel has been removed from the core and shipped to a Department of Energy facility.
The reactor has been completely dismantled, and all requirements pertaining to residual radioactivity, personnel and external radiation exposure, and fuel disposition have been met.
By separate action, the NRC has granted in accordance with 10 CFR 50.12, upon its own i
initiative, a specific exemption to the part of the requirements in 10 CFR 50.82(b)(6)(ii) that requires as a condition of license termination a terminal j
radiation survey and associated documentation to demonstrate that the site is suitable for release.
Because the AGN-201 is located in the same room as the
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University of Utah TRIGA Research Reactor (Docket No. 50-407, Facility Operating License No. R-126), the Reactor Room in the Merrill Engineering l
Building is not being released for unrestricted use by this Order and will continue to be subject to the terms of Operating License No. R-126 for the j
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TRIGA Research Reactor.
Only residual reactor components from the AGN-201 l
4 remaining on Amended Facility Operating License No. R-25 are being released for unrestricted use by this action.
The terminal radiation survey and associated documentation demonstrate that the remaining reactor components are suitable for release.
Confirmatory radiological surveys verified that the reactor components meet the recommended i
regulatory guidance for release of the components for unrestricted use.
Accordingly, the Commission has found that the decommissioning has been l
performed in accordance with the approved decommissioning plan in that the l
reactor has been dismantled and decontaminated pursuant to the Commission's 1
i Order dated August 1, 1991.
Satisfactory disposition has been made of the i
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component parts and fuel in accordance with the Commission's regulations in 10 CFR Chapter I, and in a manner not inimical to the common defense and l
security, or to the health and safety of the public.
Therefore, on the basis i
of the application filed by the University of Utah, and pursuant,to Sections 104 and 161 b, and i, of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and in accordance with 10 CFR 50.82(b)(6), Amended Facility Operating License No. R-25 is terminated as of the date of this Order.
In accordance with 10 CFR Part 51, the Commission has determined that the issuance of this termination Order will have no significant environmental impact.
The Environmental Assessment and Finding of Nc Significant Impact was published in the Federal Reaister on March 13, 1997 (62 FR 11935).
For further details with respect to this action, see (1) the applicction for termination of Amended Facility Operating License No. R-25, dated July 17, 1990, as supplemented; (2) the Commission's safety evaluation related to the termination of the license; (3) the environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact; (4) the Commission's exemption to part of the requirements of 10 CFR 50.82(b)(6); and (5) the " Notice of Proposed Issuance of Orders Authorizing Disposition of Component Parts and Terminating Facility License,"
published in the Federal Reaister on May 9, 1991 (56 FR 21508).
Each of these items is available for public inspection at the Commission's Public Document Room, 2120 L Street, NW., Washington, D.C. 20037.
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4 Copies of items (.2), (3), (4), and (5) may be obtained upon receipt of a request addressed to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C.
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Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 14th day of March 1997.
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION l
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Thomas T. Martin, Director Division of Reactor Program Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation I '
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