ML20196H115

Forwards NRC to Applicant Requesting Addl Info Re State of Tn Concerns,For Info

ML20196H115
Person / Time
Site:	05000000, 05000603, 05000604
Issue date:	06/23/1988
From:	Bordenick B NRC OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL (OGC)
To:	Luebke E, Marguiles M, Margulies M, Paris O Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
References
CON-#388-6633 88-570-01-CP-OL, 88-570-1-CP-OL, 88-571-01-CP, 88-571-1-CP, CP, CP-OL, NUDOCS 8807060090
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'88 JUN 30 P2 :33 j Morton B. Margulies, Chainnan Dr. Oscar H. Paris Administrative Judge Administrative Judge 0Fs u .- r Atomic Safety and Licensing Atomic Safety and Licensing 00Cniig i x 3 i Board Panel Board Panel *M" U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission Washington, D.C. 20555 Washington, D.C. 20555 l

Dr. Emeth A. Luebke Administrative Judge 5500 Friendship Boulevard, Apt. 1923N Chevy Chase, Maryland 20815 In the Matters of ALL CHEMICAL ISOTOPE ENRICHMENT INC.

(A1ChemIE Facility-1 CPDF)

Docket No. 50-603-CP/0L; ASLBP No. 88-570-01-CP/0L and ALL CHEMICAL ISOTOPE ENRICHMENT INC.

(AlchemIE Facility-2 Oliver Springs)

Docket No. 50-604-CP; ASLBP No. 88-571-01-CP

Dear Administrative Judges:

Reference is made to my letter to the Licensing Board dated June 17, 1988.

Attached to my letter was a letter dated June 9, 1988 from the Applicant to the Staff. Applicant's letter purported to address the concerns of the State of Tennessee set forth in its May 31, 1988 request to participate in the above captioned proceedings as an interested state pursuant to 10 C.F.R.52.715 (c).

I am now enclosino a letter and attachment from the Staff to Applicant dated June 21, 1988. As you will note, the Staff's letter, through the attachment thereto, is a request for additional information from Applicant regarding the State's concerns. The attached June 21, 1988 letter, as was the case with Applicant's June 9 letter, is sent to the Board for informational purposes.

l Sincerely, m N Bernard M. Bordenick Counsel for NRC Staff

Enclosure:

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.i JUN 211989 Docket Nos. 50-603 50-604 All Chemical Isotope Enrichment Inc.

ATTN: Mr. William A. Pfeiffer Pine Ridge Office Park, Suite 202-B -

702 South Illinois Avenue Oak Ridge TN 37830 Gentlemen:

In order to complete our review related to your application for a construction permit and operating license for AlChemIE Facility-1 CPDF and Facility-2 Oliver Springs, additional infonnation related to your environmental report is needed.

letter. We have enclosed a list of the additional infonnation needed with this We would be pleased to meet with you if you have any questions concerning this request for additional infonnation.

4 Sincerely.

0,rigig Signed By:

A. Thomas Clark, Jr.

NRC Project Manager /AlChemIE Fuel Cycle Safety Branch Division of Industrial and Medical Nuclear Safety I

Enclosure:

As stated

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/' REOUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM ALL CHEMICAL ISOTOPE ENRICHMENT, INC.

FOR FACILITY-1 CPDF AND FACILITY-2 OLIVER SPRINGS 00CKETS 50-603 AND 50-604 RE: L_etter, dated June 9,1988, from John H. Smelser, Jr., to the Nuclear Regulatory Cunmission, Attention: Mr. Hugh L. Thompson, Jr., on the subject of concerns of the Attorney General of the State of Tennessee.

In the reference letter an attachment is provided which lists elements for which naturally occurring radioisotopes occur. The list is incomplete in that several naturally occurring isotopes which undergo double beta transitions are not included. However, half-lives of these rare events are on the order of 20 10 years and they may be safely neglected. Infonnation is available, nevertheless, on the isotopic abundance of carbon-14 which is about 5 picoeuries per gram of carbon

• at the earth's surface. Carbon in petroleum, which has decayed over many half-lives, Will have considerably fewer atoms of carbon-14.

Since AlChemIE intends to use several kinds of organic chemicals as a potential carrier in its separation process, an analysis should be provided to show the extent to uhich carbon-14 could be enriched in the centrifuge machines.

In addition, for the naturally occurring radioisotopes shown on the table attached to the reference letter, Alchem!E should demonstrate the extent to which the process could enrich ecch isotope. For example, since the abundance ratio of tellurium-122 is 2.92 times th>1t of tellurium-123 (with a small quantity of tellurium-120 added), the theoretical maximum atom fraction which could be produced should not exceed 0.38.

Please provide the information described above as an amendment to your environmental report.

• See, fur exampke, Eisenbud, M., Environmental Radioactivity, Academic Press, 1973, pp.187-8, and NCRP Report No. 81, "Carbon-14 in the Environment "

May 15, 1985, p.45.

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