ML20205M794
| ML20205M794 | |
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| Site: | 07001489 |
| Issue date: | 10/01/1986 |
| From: | Mallett B NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
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S A F E T 'r' EVALUATION REFORT Docket No:
070-01409 Lic. No:
iN M - 14 61 Licencoe Goodyear Aercupace Corporation (GAC)
Alran, Ohio 44':15
Subject:
Review of GAC'c cequest to terminate NRC Lic. No.
SNM - 14 61 and releaue of i ts facilitieu for unrestricted uLe Daci. ground /D)(stu wion i ssued to GAC on January 14.
License No. ENM-1461 Wau originally 1974 authorizing the une of Gmall quantitles of normal and depl eted uranium and uranium enriched in U-235 for the purpose of rimearch and development of gas centrifuget designed for uranium enrichment.
The resear ch was funded by the Np t. of Encrgy and carried ou t.
in an atruhip hangar f.u:i l i t y in N r en, Ohio I:nown au the Uingfoot L a l' u Ad'.unced Technology Center.
H:indling of radioactive materi al s involved the une of uranium he afluoride (Ur6) in c yl i nder ;, ulii c h Wmild be piped into e < per i mc r.t al centrifugtu used to tent different rotor doctgnn.
The centrifuges pit are..
The pro e, produced boLh d upl i >t ed wer < > l o c. '. e d in c.
and enriched uranium (in ll C S).
Samplen wer e p u l l r:d f r cm the p r o.: i. :, < a npl e tube scrutbed in a '11:d 3r e a, and samplen analyccd in a mat rpe trcaetry 1 abor ators.
Ratcrn wrre alno rem.,-d and
- ..n a l v c o 1 in ar.'4,uithin ttie Wi t n1f oot facility.
The l i o n oe.
il oa r merved st anhr d ampleu of UF6 an enriched (
'W. )
from 'ho Dept. uf Energy.
Tl e, 1iconwe munttored cir
..nd oat nr of f litento i r om t tu Wingfoot facillty and samplud air and pc;r f or m ed arca turvoya within the faci 11ty dur1sig
- t. h i > r mor ( li une from 1974 to 19: G.
NPC i nnpt > :tionc of the fel1ity in 19 "
and 19D2 a nifi c at ud that
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tiu. 1 i c > n '. o o. tiad no d>faliito nursov pr a.jr am i or c i:nt ami nat t on.
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uo i ric i dent n n ii 1 MIO and were at l> ac L yr ourul 1+ v>'l,
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liquid effluent data f or or.>s.
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d Fr om tiie period Tierch 1906 to A u g t.s t 11, 1986, the IJRC requented snd received f ur t her-information concerning the licensee'-
clocoaut of the facility.
The NRC requested and Gal Ridge Associated Uni ver ni t i on (ORAU) pc r f ormed 3 cloueout curveys of the facility from !1a y thr ough August 1906.
The first surveys identified arean contaminated above NRC limitu for release au 3pecificd in Palicy und Guidance Diroctive FC 03-T.
~Ihe 3rd and final sur vey conclnded that all areas are decentaminated to below th, limits in thi, d2rective.
lhe data from the Dal: Ridge uurvey i s, contained in a draft r epor t dated Septemoer 1986.
Conclisui uns /Reco nnondati ons, ita-DA Ridge clomeout curvey indicates, all are u of the faciltty hsvo tieen decontaminated below the IJRC l i m i t t:.
All contaminated e tp. i i p mi 3r; L and any r em.y the 1icorr+9>,
r el ease of thiq faci 1ity for unrtn.tricted uue repro *etitu an insignificent r i ci: to the pt blic Ir ralth
<nd cafuty and to the envi rornnen t.
Trier e f ore, I
r eccmwendt d thet NRC Licente No. E NM-- l +161 be terminated effective August 21, 1906.
ACf k < A Eruct, G.
[1al l ot t,
Ph.D.,
Cli t e i t1s t er i a l < LicentIng Section l
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