ML20150E660
| ML20150E660 | |
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| Issue date: | 12/08/1978 |
| From: | James Shea NRC OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS (OIP) |
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| SECY-78-635, NUDOCS 7812210482 | |
| Download: ML20150E660 (8) | |
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December 8,1978 SECY-78-635 COMMISSIONER ACTION For:
The Commissioners From:
James R. Shea, Director Office of International Programs
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Executive Director for Operation
Subject:
APPROVAL OF PROPOSED LICENSE TO IMPORT LOW ENRICHED URANIUM AS UF6 (LICENSE APPLICATION ISNM 780017)
Purpose:
Commission review of proposed issuance of subject license to Transnuclear, Inc.
Discussion:
On September 7,1978 Transnuclear, Inc. applied for a license to import 44,000 kilograms of uranium, enriched to 1.0% U-235, as UF from France.
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low enriched material will be shipped to a US/ DOE facility as feed material under toll enriching contract UES/EU/41 for the Kernkraftwerk Stade Reactor in West Germany (application attached as Appendix A).
The material will be shipped by sea and trucked from the port of entry to the DOE facility at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in approved containers bearing IAEA Certificate of Competent Authority Number USA /4909/B
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The staff finds that this import will not be inimical to the comon defense and security, will not constitute an unreasonable risk to the health and safety of the public, and will have no significant environmental impact (staff findings attached as Appendix B).
Contact:
G. G. Oplinger, 492-7866 R.N. Moore, 492-7984 7 812 210 4 c31
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A copy of the proposed license is attached as (continued)
Appendix C.
Recommendation :
That the proposed import license be issued to Transnuclear, Inc.
Coordination:
NMSS has concurred. OELD has no legal objection.
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Jam R. Shea, Director Off ce of International Programs
Enclosures:
As stated NOTE: Commissioner comments should be provided directly to the Office of the Secretary, by c.o.b. Tuesday, December 19, 1978 Commission staff office comments, if any, should be submitted to the Commissioners NLT_Qgember 15. 1978
, with an information copy to the Office of the Secretary.
If the paper is of such a nature that it requires additional time for analytical review and comment, the Commissioners and the Secretariat should be apprised of when comments may be expected.
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Import of 44000 Kg U at a maximum 1.0 percent for Contract EU/41 TN Ref: 78-245/02 (TNP-244 )
Dear Mr. Moore:
Please consider this letter an application for Import License, in accordance with 10 CFR 70.22 (c1 1)
Applicant: Transnuclear, Inc.
5205 Leesburg Pike Falls Church, Va. 22041 2)
Ultimate Consignee:
U.S.D.O.E.
Union Carbide Corp.
K-25 Plant Oak P.idge, TN 3)
Intermediate Consignee: "fransnuclear,Inc.
5205 Leesburg Pike Falls Church, Va. 22041 4)
A portion of this enriched uranium (22447 Kg U) is cc: ring from reprocessing of fuel elements under the previous toll-enriching contract number UES/EU/2 and is of U.S. origin.
The balance of material (21553 Kg U) is of Canadian origin.
All of this material will be used as enriched feed against further product to be shipped under toll-enriching centract number UES/EU/41, 5)
This uranium is privately owned by Kernkraftwerk Stade GmbH, D-2160 Stade PSA, W.
Germany and will be converted into UF6 by CEA, France and will be shipped from France loaded in I.A.E.A. 4909 type packages, according to I. A.E. A. USA /4909/B ()T.
SKYLINE CENTER. 5205 LEESOURC PIKE. FALLS CHURCH, VIRCINtA 2041 TELEPHONE: 703420-1450. C A B L E: TRANSNUC F5CH. TELCx: 39.k63 t
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The total quantity of material te be imported is 44000 Kg Uranium in the form of UF6, containing 440 Kg U235, enriched to a mar.imum 1
of 1.0 percent.
The complete shipment of twenty-nine (29) packages to arrive in February 1979.
- 7) This material will be imported by sea shipment and will be delivered
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to U.S.D.O.E. c/o Union Carbide Corp., Oak Ridge, TN. by truck.
If you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.
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Import of 44000 Kg U at a maximum of 1.0 percent for Contract EU/41 TN Ref: 78-245/02 (TNP-244)
(Reference our letter of September 7,1978) l
Dear Mr. Moore:
Please amend our request for Impo t License dated September 7, 1978 to include the following additional information:
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A portion of this enriched uranium (22447 Kg U) is coming from reprocessing of fuel elements under previous to: ?-enriching contract number UES/EU/2 red is of U. S. Origin.
The balance of material (21553 Kg U) is of Canadian origin.
This material has not been enrichsd, but instead has been blended with uranium under contract UES/EU,2. This material will be converted to UF6 by Comurhex, Pierrelatte, France on behalf of Cogema.
1 Thanking you in advance for your help and cooperation.
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2 I1) e WASHINGTON, D. C. 20555 Yh'bif$/[5 EV2bB76 MEMORANDUM TO THE CILES FROM:
William Upshaw, Assistant for Policy Review
SUBJECT:
STAFF FINDINGS RELATED TO PROPOSED IMPORT OF 44,000 KILOGRAMS URANIUM AS UF, N ED TO M (ISNM-780017) 6 Transnuclear, Inc. filed an application dated September 7,1978, for a license authori:ing the import of 44,000 kilograms of ur'.nium containing 440 kilograms U-235, maximum enrichment of 1% as UF from France.
A portion of this enriched uranium (22,447 kg U) is cbm,ing from reprocessing of fuel elements under previous toil-enriching contract number UES/EU/2 and is of U.S. origin.
The balance of the material (21,553 kg U) is of Canadian origin and has not been enriched, but has been blended with the uranium under contract UES/EU/2.
The material will be transported to the U.S. by sea and delivered by truck to the DOE facility at Oak Ridge, Tennessee for use as feed against material to be shipped under toll-enriching contract UES/EU/41 for the Kernkraftwerk Stade Reactor in West Germany.
The ship-ment will be mace in 29 approved containers bearing the IAEA Certificate of Competent Authority Number USA /4909/B()F.
This container has been used for the shipment of thousands of tons of UF without a significant incident.
5 The hazards relating to the possible rupture of this container are limited principally to chemical toxicity rather than radiological toxicity and can be handled safely in essentially the manner as any corrosive and/or toxic chemi cal.
In view of the small percentage of the total UF trans ported 6
annually in the U.S., wnich this import represents, and in view of the history of safe transport of UF, this import will not result in any signifi-cant change in the probability bf a potential accident and will have no environmental impact over that resulting from domestic trc. sport of UF.
The radiological impacts from import shipments were further evaluated in tke Final Environmental Statement of the Transportation of Radioactive Material by Air and Other Fedes, NUREG-0170 and were determined to be negligible compared to impacts from domestic shipments.
The staff has determined that importation of this low enriched material meets statutory requirements, will not be inimical to the common defense and security, will not constitute an unreasonable risk to the health anc safety of the public, and will involve no significant environmental impact.
kN-William Upshaw Assistant for Policy Review APPENDIX B
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U.S. NUCLE AR REGLfLATORY COMMISSION
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S PECI At'. NUCLEKR M ATERI AL IMPORT LICENSE Pursuent to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, es amended.end Title 10, Code of Fed
- col Regulations. Chapter 1. Port 70, a license is hereby issued to the licensee designated below authorizing the import of spccial nucteer materielin accorcance with the statements and representations made by tne licensee in the spotication referenced below.This license is suoiect to vil spot.c.
able rules. regulations and orders of the Nuclear Aegulatory C*mmission now or hereaf ter in etteet and to any condibons a pe cilie d b elow.
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x 110001 M tNeme Transnucle'ar, Inc.
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ISNM 79nn17
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- s. Espiration date S205 Leesburg Pike 1
Falls ChuN h, Virginia 22041
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- 7. Quantity a'nd type of material me nt originates Uranium: A niaximum of 44,000 kilograms enriched to a maximum of 1.0%
France in the U-235 isotope as UF6 s
CONDITloNS X
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The licensee shall obtain all information from the foreign exporter necessary to complete the shipper's portion of Form NRC-741, " Nuclear Material Transactions Report."
If the licensee is the receiver of the material, he shall record both the shipper's and receiver's information on the Form NRC-741 and transmit pursuant to Section 70.54 of 10 CFR Part 70.
If the licensee is not the receiver of the
, material, he shall provide the shipper's information to the receiver
, of the material for inclusion on the receiver's Form NRC-741.
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The/ licensee shall notify the Materials and Plant Protection Branch, Office of Inspection and Enforcement, immediately, by telephone or telegram, if entry of any import shipment authorized by this license is refused by the U.S. Customs Service.
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Each tire material is imported, the licensee shall show the original of the-I nense to U.S. Customs as authority for the import.
The original of the license showing the imported quantity shall be surrendereo to U.S. Customs when the final transaction under the license is completad. ~Except for the fina~i transaction, a copy of l
the license showi.ng the imported quanti'y shall be surrendered to 3
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6 License'No. 1SNM 780017 Docket No. 11000166
'U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION MATERIALS LICENSE Supplementary Sheet 4.
For import shipment of 5 kilograms or more of uranium 235 contained
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licensee shall promptly notify the appropriate Inspection and
-Enforcement, Regional Office, by telephone, telegram or teletype, upon receiving notification that an import shipment has entered the country, giving the date that the import entered and the estimated time of arrival at the stated destination.
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This license authorizes import only and does not authorize the j
receipt, physical possession, or use of the material.
FOR THE U.S. NUCLEAR REGUL,JORY COMMISSION Gerald G. Oplinger, Assistant Director Export / Import and International Safeguards Office of International Programs Date of Application September 7. 1978 Date of Issuance 1
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