ML20207S875
| ML20207S875 | |
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| Site: | 07003051 |
| Issue date: | 03/02/1987 |
| From: | TRANSNUCLEAR, INC. |
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| 27935, NUDOCS 8703200357 | |
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APPLICATION FOR A LICENSE TO STORE SPECIAL NUCLEAR MATERIAL AT THE AIKEN FACILITY OF TRANSNUCLEAR, INC.
Transnuclear, Inc. hereby_makes application in accordance with 10CFR70.22 for a license to possess special nuclear material (SNM) at its Aiken, South Carolina facility.
The specifics of this application are as follows:
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Applicant:
Transnuclear, Inc.
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2, Box 777 Aiken, South Carolina 29801 Transnuclear, Inc. is incorporated in the State of New York.
Its principal office is:
One North Broadway, suite 700 White Plains, NY 10601 The principal officers, all of whom are citizens of the United States, are:
Dr. Alan S. Hanson, President Green Hill Road Goldens Bridge, NY 10526 Mr. Bill R. Teer, Senior Vice President 539 Martling Avenue Tarrytown, NY 10591 Mr. Charles W. Pennington, Vice President 56 Remington Road Ridgefield, CT 06887 Transnuclear, Inc. is a New York corporation founded in 1965.
The two shareholders are Transnucleaire, S.A.,
a French company with 50% of the shares, and Transnuklear, GmbH, a West Germany company, also with 50% of the shares.
Neither company exercises control over the basic business policy decisions of Transnuclear, Inc.
Neither of the shareholders is considered to be a parent company and Transnuclear, Inc. is not a subsidiary of either company.
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Purpose This application is to receive, possess, store (but NOT to process), and deliver to a carrier special nuclear material in the' form of uranium hexafluoride (UP6).
The material will exist in the form of " heels" in 2 1/2-ton cylinders (up to 20 kg UF6 per cylinder). 'The UF6 is of an enrichment typically used by commercial nuclear light-water reactors:
less than 5% U-235.
The cylinders are characterized as follows:
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Description:==
Model'30B UF Y
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- 8#
6 Size:.30 inch diameter by 81 inches long; Nominal tare weight: 1400 lbs.
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License Duration The license is requested to be effective for a period of twenty years, with the possibility of its being extended for five year increments beyond the initial period.
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SNM Characterization The special nuclear material will be in the form of low enriched UF in Type 30B cylinders.
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The enrichment will not exceed 5% U-235.
The maximum quantity to be possessed at any one time will be 2000 kg UF with a maxirnum of 20 kg in any one cylinder.
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(Not Applicable) 6.
Technical Qualifications The storage location is the Aiken, SC facility of Transnuclear, Inc.
This facility is licensed by the State of South Carolina (License 377) to store and possess radioactive materials.
The facility maintains a full-time Radiation
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Protection Officer, Ms. Kathryn S. Lester, with a degree in Health Physics.
The Manager of the Aiken facility, Mr. Paul N. McCreery, is well versed in nuclear materials accountability practices.
He has served as " Accountability Representative" at two locations: the Feed Materials Production Center at' Fernald, Ohio (where both depleted and slightly enriched UF were converted to UF4) and the NL fuel fabrication 6
facility in Albany, NY where highly enriched uranium was used in the fabrication of MTR and ATR fuel elements.
He is familiar with the processing of SNM transfer forms and periodic reporting requirements.
Two other employees at Aiken have each had at least five years experience in the nuclear industry.
The Chief Engineer of Transnuclear, who is located in White Plains, NY and to whom Mr. McCreery reports, has over 25 years experience in the nuclear industry.
Mr. John Mangusi, General Manager of Operations, has over 20 years experience in the nuclear industry with more than 16 years experience in domestic and international shipments of various radioactive commodities including natural and enriched UF The expertise of these 6
and other Transnuclear personnel are available as required.
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Protective Equipment: Facilities The Transnuclear, Inc. facility in Aiken, SC consists of a building with 6000 sq. ft. of floor space on a four acre lot.
The building and two acres are surrounded by a 6 ft.
high chain-link fence.
Exterior lighting is provided by high intensity lanps on poles just inside the perimeter fencing L
I and on the building.
A diagram of the facility is attached.
The storage of UF cylin*2ers will be at the southern end 6
of the fenced area which will be covered and compacted with a 4 inch layer of crusher-run gravel (a mixture of gravel and clay that compacts to a firm surface).
Each cylinder will be supported in storage by 4 in. x 4 in. (nominal) timbers with blocking at each end of the timber to prevent the cylinder from rolling to either side.
An area will be provided to accommodate a maximum of 10 rows of 10 cylinders per row (on 5 foot centers).
All storage will be away from the normal traffic patterns at the facility.
Nothing else will be stored in the area assigned to the storage of UF cylinders.
6 The terrain surrounding the facility is quite flat but well drained, as shown on the attached contour map.
The general area is located on the higher elevation of the east coast geological formation known as the " fall line" and no flood has ever been recorded for these higher elevations in this vicinity (2)
Thus it is extremely unlikely that sufficient water ever will accumulate to float the empty containers fron the storage area.
No combination of full cylinders in a planar configuration, even when fully moderated, can be made to go critical except under incredible circumstances III, so criticality is not a practical concern.
The cylinders, prior (2)
Flood Insurance Rate Map Aiken County South Carolina (unincorporated areas), March 4, 1980.
Federal Insurance Administration U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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Protective Shippin Cylinders,ReportkPackagesfor30inchDiameterUF6 1686, Union Carbide Corporation Nuclear Division, April 13, 1967 to being received at Aiken, will have been routinely emptied leaving residual heel.
The remaining UF would have to be 6
heated to about 175'F to generate a positive pressure within a cylinder, so leakage of UF to the atmosphere is not likely.
6 In the unlikely event of a leak, the tendency would be for the leak to be self sealing by the hydrolized UF6 For these reasons, no emergency evacuation procedures or emergency radiation response procedures are necessary.
Storage of these cylinders outside, even when filled with UF sa utine 6,
operation at many fuel fabrication facilities throughout the world.
The enrichment level of the UF to be stored at the Aiken 6
facility is lower than that defined as " strategic special nuclear material" and is, therefore, exempted from the requirements of 10CFR73
" Physical Protection of Plants and Materials", per 10CFR73.6(a).
However, physical protection measures are in effect which will protect the facility and the cylinders from intruders.
The general facility area which includes the UF cylinder storage area is enclosed by a 6 6
foot high chain link fence with three strands of barbed wire at the tcp.
The four gates through this fence are kept locked at all times when not in use or when not under the direct surveillance of a facility employee.
Exterior lighting at the perimeter fence is activated by photo cells at dusk.
Exterior lighting from the building is manually operated and is an item on the check-list for securing the premises at the clone of a work day.
The facility is heated by fuel oil that is stored in a 200,
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_ gallon tank on the. west side-of the building, near;the. front.
Prior to storage of any cylinders containing UF heels, the 6
fuel oil storage. tank will be surrounded by an earthen levee of sufficient capacity to retain the contents of a full tank.
The only other flammable materials on the_ site are. paint stored in
- a. paint locker, lawn mower fuel'in a 2-gal can and fuel in'the-tanks of employees' autos.
Therefore, there is no credible fire or explosion hazard which could damage the cylinders.
No provision is planned for the collection or monitoring of P
rain water draining from the storage area.
UF cylinders ut11 be handled'by a small crane, using a g
two-legged sling of 1/4 in, steel wire rope (breaking strength in excess of 5000 lbs.).
Each leg will be 8 ft. long which results in less than 30* inclination from the vertical. Each sling terminates with a lifting hook of 3250 lbs. working load.
The two hooks will engage the opposite upper edges of the lips of the cylinders for lifting.
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Procedures cylinders will be stored in rows as near to each other as they can safely and conveniently.be positioned.
The cylinders will not be opened at the Aiken facility.
Cylinders will be stored no closer than 10 feet to a fence or roadway.
As a fire protection, the storage area will be treated with herbicides to preclude the growth of any plant life.
Receipt and shipment of these cylinders will be subject to dose rate and contamination level surveys in accordance with DOT regulations, as is the current practice for all receipts and shipments of radioactive materials.
Also, the routine radiation contamination monitoring program currently in effect will be expanded to include random monitoring of cylinders in f
storage.
The only vehicles permitted inside the fenced general o
facility area are those necessary for the conduct of business.
When in the area, someone in addition to the driver will observe the operation of the vehicle and warn the driver if the 5
latter approaches to within 10. feet of the UF 6 storage area.
Cranes handling UF6 cylinders will be operated only by qualified personnel.
Visitors to the facility are restricted to a foyer and, if valid reason is presented for entry into the office area, are obliged to sign a visitor's log.
Visitors are escorted by a facility employee during their visit.
Anyone working in a radiation control area must have satisfactorily completed a radiation and industrial safety training program, or be escorted continuously by a Transnuclear employee who has satisfactorily completed the program.
This will include the UF storage area.
6 The facility training program is similar to those conducted at commercial reactor sites and is required of employees and visitors who must have unescorted access to radiation or contaminated areas.
All activities involving radioactive t
materials at this facility are performed in accordance with written procedures, and the e procedures will be extended to include the receipt, inspec-un, handling, storage and shipment of UF cylinders. The operating procedures in use at the Aiken facility must be approved by the Manager, Aiken e
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Operations, the Radiation Protection Engineer and by the Chief Engineer in White Plains, NY.
Each individual operation is conducted under a specific Radiation Work Permit (with locally prepared Work Instructions, if appropriate), which includes, in addition to radiation safety criteria, those personnel permitted to work on that specific job.
The Quality Assurance program in effect for the Aiken facility is the Corporate program established for 10CFR71.
This program has been approved by the NRC.
Paragraph 70.22(b) is applicable only if SNM is to be k
possessed and used at the licensed facility; however, the following comments are considered to be pertinent even though this application is for storage only.
No verification of cylinder contents will be made by Aiken facility personnel for either weight or content analysis.
Shipper's data will be accepted and noted as such on all transfer documents.
The same data will be used whenever a cylinder is transferred to another site.
The storage area will be designated as a single ICA (Item Control Area) with items added to, or removed from, inventory only as the result of the receipt of cylinders from, or the shipment of cylinders to, another NRC licensed facility, a DOE facility or a seaport or airport as part of an international i
snipment.
The number of cylinders in the ICA will be verified on a monthly basis.
The serial numbers of the cylinders will be verified quarterly as well as at the time of shipment or receipt. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ - _ _ _ _ _ _ _.
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