ML20148C129

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Submits Advance Notification of Import Shipment of Nuclear Matl from Countries Not Party to Convention on Physical Protection of Nuclear Matl.Details of Shipment Required,Per 10CFR73.74(a)(3) Listed
ML20148C129
Person / Time
Site: 07001426
Issue date: 03/06/1997
From: Mclaughlin J
TRANSNUCLEAR, INC.
To: Bennington G
NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
References
TNY-97026-6, NUDOCS 9705150101
Download: ML20148C129 (2)


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March 6,1997

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Transnuclear reference: TNV 97026-6 D Auvarxe wancanon tar an impen shipment of nuclear material from coimtries that are not pany to the Convenuon on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material This letter constitutes Transnuclear Inc.'s advance notification to the USNRC in compliance with the requirements as outiined in 10 CFR 73.74(a)(1)(2) for an impon shipment of low strategic significance material from Countries that are not pany to the Convention on the Physical Protectica of Nuclear Material.

Details of this shipment as required in 10 CFR 73.74(a)(3) are as follows:

73.74(a)(3)(i) Data:

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1mponer of Record Receiving Facility COGEMA, Inc.

Westinghouse Nuclear Foels Division 7401 Wisconsin Avenue 5801 Bluff Road Bethesda, MD 20814 Columbia, SC 29209 301/986-8585 803/776-2610 Shipping Facility Carriers COGEMA Pierrelatte Atlantic Container Lines B.P.16 50 Cragwood Road 26700 Pierrelatte, France So. Plainfield, NJ 07080 33 7550 4000 908/668-5556 Transpon Coordinator AND Transnuclear, Inc.

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Page 2 of 2 March 6,1997 TNY 97026-6 73.74(a)(3)(ii) Data: Physical description of shipment:

Six model 30B cylinders inside overpacks containing:

RQ, URANIUM HEXAFLUORIDE, FISSILE (containing more than 1% U235),7, UN2977, Radioactive Material (U235,U238) solid, UF6. Approximate UF6 weight: 13,663 kgs. Approximste U weight: 9,250 kgs enriched to max. 4.93 %.

Approximate weight U235: 463 kgs l

73.74(a)(3)(iii)(iv)(v) Data:

MODE ORIGIN (0), TRANSFER (T),

ROUTE DATE/ TIME OF ARRIVAL COUNTRY /ENROUTE(C/E)&

(A) & DEPARTURE (D) AT DESTINATION (D) POINTS EACH POINT Rail Pierrelatte, FRANCE standard rail (D)

April 7,1997 0800 - 1800 hours0.0208 days <br />0.5 hours <br />0.00298 weeks <br />6.849e-4 months <br /> Antwerp, BELGIUM (A) April 8,1997 Ocean.

standard ocean 0800 - 2359 hours0.0273 days <br />0.655 hours <br />0.0039 weeks <br />8.975995e-4 months <br /> mc" (D)

April 9,1997 Liverpool, ENGLAND (A/D) April 12, 1997 0800 - 2359 hours0.0273 days <br />0.655 hours <br />0.0039 weeks <br />8.975995e-4 months <br /> Halifax, CANADA (A/D) April 20,1997 0800 - 2359 hours0.0273 days <br />0.655 hours <br />0.0039 weeks <br />8.975995e-4 months <br /> Port Elizabeth, NJ (A/D) April 22,1997 0800 - 2359 hours0.0273 days <br />0.655 hours <br />0.0039 weeks <br />8.975995e-4 months <br /> Baltimore, MD (A/D) April 24,1997 0800 - 2359 hours0.0273 days <br />0.655 hours <br />0.0039 weeks <br />8.975995e-4 months <br /> Portsmouth, VA (A)

April 25,1997 0800 - 2359 hours0.0273 days <br />0.655 hours <br />0.0039 weeks <br />8.975995e-4 months <br /> Arrival at the receivmg facility is estimated to be between 0700 hours0.0081 days <br />0.194 hours <br />0.00116 weeks <br />2.6635e-4 months <br /> and 1800 hours0.0208 days <br />0.5 hours <br />0.00298 weeks <br />6.849e-4 months <br /> on April 30 or May 1,1997.

This shipment will meet the levels of physical protection specified in Appendix E (Annex I).

Yours truly, oan McLaughlin Traffic Cooniinator