ML20148C054
| ML20148C054 | |
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| Site: | University of Missouri-Columbia |
| Issue date: | 04/23/1997 |
| From: | Kutikkad D MISSOURI, UNIV. OF, COLUMBIA, MO |
| To: | Bennington G NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 9705150001 | |
| Download: ML20148C054 (2) | |
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Research Reactor Center Research Park II
[ $ff Columbia, Missouri 65211 Telephone (573) 882-42? 1 UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA haWo April 23,1997 1
Ms. Gloria Bennington U.S. NRC, MS TWFN 8 F-5 1 Whiteflint North 11545 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 20852-2738
SUBJECT:
Shipment of Spent Fuel: Radioactive Material, Fissile, N.O.S., UN2918, Highway Route Controlled Quantity.
The enclosed envelope contains information regarding radioactive spent fuel shipments from the University of Missouri Research Reactor. This information has been classified as SAFEGUARDS INFORMATION as per 10CFR73.21(b)2. No person may have access to Safeguards Information unless the person has an established "need to know" for this information and is authorized per 10CFR73.21(c). Regulations prevent the disclosure of this information over unsecured telephone communications except that the reporting of schedule changes are permitted to be made by phone in the form of time deviations from the original schedule. Please deliver the enclosed envelope which contains Safeguards Information to the addressee on the envelope. If this person is no longer employed at your facility or will be absent for an extended period, please call (573) 882-5205 for the correct disposition of this material.
Armed escorts have been arranged for St. Louis, Nashville, Chattanooga, Atlanta, and Augusta, for these spent fuel shipments. Also, governors' designees of Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and South Carolina have been mailed notifications.
The following information and the enclosed SAFEGUARDS INFORMATION are supplied to comply with 10CFR73.37(fXi)(ii)(iii).
Shipper:
University of Missouri
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Research Reactor Center Columbia, MO 65211 Phone: (573) 882-5205 (Das Kutikkad) i Carrier:
Tri-State Motor Transit Co U.S. DOE Idaho Operations OfTice 785 DOE Place Idaho Falls, ID 83403 Phone: (208) 526-2415 (Keith Nelson) l Receiver:
Department of Energy WestSghouse Savannah River Company
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Building 105-L Phone: (803) 557-6087
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l Letter to Ms. Bennington April 23,1997 Page 2 49CFR172.202(a)(1X2)(3)(4) l Proper shipping name, hazard RQ radioactive material, fissile, n.o.s.,7, UN2918, class, identification number, 25,000 lbs.
gross weight 172.203(c)
RQ (Reportable Quantity) 1.5 kg of fission products; l
4.88 kg U-235 l
49CFR172.203(d)(1)
(i) 173.435, radionuclides MFP (Mixed Fission Products)
(ii) Physical and chemical form Solid metallic, UAls and Al mixed with fissi n products trapped in this matrix. The UAlx--Al-fission product material is clad with aluminum as fuel plates of MTR-l type (Materials Testing Reactor) fuel elements.
Original fuel enrichment > 93%
l (iii) Activity (Curies) 149,000 Curies j
49CFR173.403 Greater than 27,000 Ci or 3,000 x A (1,500 curies), so 2
highway route controlled quantity.
(iv) Label category RADIOACTIVE YELLOW III because it is highway route controlled quantii,y.
(v) Transport index Based on measurement of radiation level at 3.3 ft from cask cover. This is measured at the time of shipment, and in our past shipments, has been < 0.5 millirem /hr.
L Hence TI =.5 per 49CFR173.403.
t (vi) Fissile material, 49CFR173.45(7)(b). This means by 49CFR I
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173.457(bX1)that transport must be with exclusive use i
of shipper.
l (vii) Package identification number USA /5957/B( )F (Model No. BMI-1) l Mode of transport Highway truck, exclusive use. No transfer points.
Route enclosed as Safeguards Information.
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SAFEGUARDS INFORMATION i
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