ML20151D026
| ML20151D026 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | 07001359 |
| Issue date: | 05/26/1988 |
| From: | Maschka P IRT CORP. |
| To: | Pennington W NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| References | |
| 24377, NUDOCS 8807220307 | |
| Download: ML20151D026 (3) | |
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Mr. W.S. Pennington Uranium Fuel Section Fuel Cycle Safety Branch Division of industrial & Medical
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Dear Mr. Pennington:
Atter discussing our license and use of JMN with our technical staff, the Division managers and the Chief Scientist, it has been decided to amend our license to STORAGE ONLY. We are not doing any work with SNM at this time and in the last two years the only work we did with Uranium was with some normal uranium pellets. We do not anticipate doing any work with SNM in the next year or tw^ and any work that might be done could employ normal or deptoted Uranium.
At this time our totalinventory of material consists of the following:
5 gramsPlutonium 239 1 gram Plutonium 238 4C grams Uranium 235 < 10% enriched 35 grams Uranium 235 >20% enriched 87 citams TOTAL PLUS the nefarious Plutonium / Uranium MOX fuel rods containing:
365 grams Plutonium 239 277 gramd Uranium 235 < 10% enriched.
liit wouldn't be for these Pu/U rods we could terminate our license linmediatey.
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, Page 2 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Washington, DC 20555 May 26,1988 lt is anticipated that any work that we might do with uranium in the future could be covered by our State of California license. Our management feels that it is an unnecessary burden that we have to maintain the SNM license and the storage facility just for those Pu/U rods when we have absolutely no use for them. They feel that there must be some agency in the Federal Government that can releave us of this burden. If we didn't have those rods, we would immediately dispose of the rest of the material by sending some of it back to the owners and the remainder would be sent to Hanford for burial. As the situation stands now, we will probably wait and dispose of that material when the State of California opens their own Rad Waste Burial Facility.
We intend to amend our license to permit Storage and Preparation for Disposal Only. It will take at least three months to rewrite the license. I will incorporate as much of the present license as !s applicable including the answers to your questions. The new license application should be finished by mid September.
Any help you could give us in disposing of'the 'Pii/U MOX rods would be greatly appreciated. I
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have talked to the DOE but they refuse to take the rods.
.a If you have any questions or need further information, please call me'at (619) 450-4343.
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