ML20151X025

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Submits Advance Notification for Import Shipment of Nuclear Matl from Countries That Are Not Party to Convention on Physical Protection of Nuclear Matl.Arrival at Receiving Facility in Columbia,Sc Estimated to Be on 980811
ML20151X025
Person / Time
Site: 07001426
Issue date: 06/30/1998
From: George M
TRANSNUCLEAR, INC.
To: Bennington G
NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
References
TNY-98061-6, NUDOCS 9809160228
Download: ML20151X025 (2)


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QM.rq./ {tCehSx 070-O /V A6 Mrs. Gloria Bennington June 30,1998 Division of Safeguards and Transportation U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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Advance notification for an impon shipment of nuclear material from countries that i

are not pany to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material This letter coutitutes Transnuclear Inc.'s advance notification to the USNRC in compliance with the requirements as outlined in 10 CFR 73.74(a)(1)(2) for an import shipment of low strategic significance material from Countries that are not party to the Convention on the Physical Protection 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:

Importer of Record Receiving Facility COGEMA, Inc.

Westinghouse Nuclear Fuels 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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o6 a 3 R-A TNY 980516 June 30,1998 Page 2 of 2 73.74(a)(3)(ii) Data: Physical description of shipment:

G. Bennington, USNRC 6 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: 13662 kgs.

Approximate U weight: 9240 kg enriched to max. 4.40%.

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

MODE OP IGIN(0),TR ANSFER(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)

July.17,1998 0800 - 1800 hours0.0208 days <br />0.5 hours <br />0.00298 weeks <br />6.849e-4 months <br /> Antwerp, BELGIUM Standard ocean (A)

July 21,1998 Ocean.

0800 - 2359 hours0.0273 days <br />0.655 hours <br />0.0039 weeks <br />8.975995e-4 months <br /> h

(D)

July 22,1998

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Liverpool, ENGLAND (A/D) July 25,1998 0800 - 2359 hours0.0273 days <br />0.655 hours <br />0.0039 weeks <br />8.975995e-4 months <br /> Halifax, CANADA (A/D) Aug 2,1998 0800 - 2359 haurs Pott Elizabeth, NJ (A/D) Aug 4,1998 0800 - 2359 hours0.0273 days <br />0.655 hours <br />0.0039 weeks <br />8.975995e-4 months <br /> Baltimore, MD (A/D) Aug 6,1998 0800 - 2359 hours0.0273 days <br />0.655 hours <br />0.0039 weeks <br />8.975995e-4 months <br /> Portsmouth, VA (A)

Aug 7,1998 0800 - 2359 hours0.0273 days <br />0.655 hours <br />0.0039 weeks <br />8.975995e-4 months <br /> Arrival at the receiving 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 August 11, 1998.

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

Yours truly Transnuclear, Inc.

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