ML20137A639

Forwards RAI Re Amended Facility Operating License R-37 for Mitr Submitted 970218.Provides Response within 15 Days of Ltr Date.Nrc Will Continue Evaluation of Amend Request

ML20137A639
Person / Time
Site:	MIT Nuclear Research Reactor
Issue date:	03/14/1997
From:	Alexander Adams NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned)
To:	Bernard J MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, CAMBRIDGE
References
TAC-M97997, NUDOCS 9703210011
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REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION (TAC M97997)

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Dear Dr. Bernard:

l We are continuing our review of your amendment request for Amended Facility Operating License No. R-37 for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Reactor (MITR) which you submitted on February 18, 1997. During our review of your amendment request, questions have arisen for which we require I additional information and clarification. Please provide responses to the l enclosed Request for Additional Information within 15 days of the date of this  !

letter. Following receipt of the additional information, we will continue our evaluation of your amendment request.

In accordance with 10 CFR 50.30(b), your response must be executed in a signed original under oath or affirmation. ,

l This requirement affects nine or fewer respondents and, therefore, is not i subject to Office of Management and Budget review under P. L.96-511.

If you have any questions regarding this review, please contact me at (301) 415-1127.

Sincerely, Original signed by:

Alexander Adams, Jr., Senior Project Manager Non-Power Reactors and Decommissioning  :

Project Directorate l Division of Reactor Program Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation i Docket No. 50-20

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SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMA110N (TAC M97997)

Dear Dr. Bernard:

We are continuing our review of your amer.dment request for Amended Facility Operating License No. R-37 for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Reactor (MITR) which you submitted on February 18, 1997. During our review of your amendment request, questions have arisen for which we require additional infc mation and clarification. Please provide responsas to the enclosed Request for. Additional Information within 15 days of the date of this letter. Following receipt of the additional information, we will continue our evaluation of your amendment request.

In accordance with 10 CFR 50.30(b), your response must be executed in a signed original under oath or affirmation.

This requirement affects nine or fewer respondents and, therefore, is not subject to Office of Management and Budget review under P. L.96-511.

If you have any questions regarding this review, please contact me at (301) 415-1127.

Sincerely, y$au.cGiL.ck> l Alexander Adams, Jr. Senior Project Manager Non-Power Reactors a 6 Decommissioning Project Directorate Division of Reactor Program Management Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-20

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ENCLOSURE REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DOCKET N0. 50-20

l. Proposed technical specification (TS) 6.51. The NRC staff has compared the wording of your proposed TSs with the wording of the medical use licenses of the medical centers that can refer patients to MIT for boron-neutron capture therapy (BNCT). To have the wording of the MIT TS reflect the conditions of the medical use licenses we propose MIT consider wording similar to the following:

Patients accepted for treatment shall have been referred by written directive from a BNCT physician authorized user from a medical center with an NRC or Agreement State medical use license that contains BNCT specific conditions and commitirmts for BNCT treatments on humans conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Research Reactor Medical Therapy Facility.

Wording similar to this should also be considered for your proposed TS basis, and although not part of the TS, sections 2 and 3(a) of your quality management program (QMP).

2. To make it clear that the physician authorized user providing the written directive to MIT is a physician with a background in BNCT, please consider adding "BNCT" to the phrase " physician authorized user" whenever it appears in the TSs. Also, to reflect the wording used in the medical use license we propose that MIT consider wording for definition 12 similar to the following:

The term 'BNCT physician authorized user' means a medical physician authorized by the medical use licensee's radiation safety committee to act as an authorized user for BNCT on humans.

Although not part of the TSs, please consider similar changes to your QMP.

Definition 9(a) of the QMP is similar to definition 12 of the TS.