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Staff Requirements Memo Re Secy 97-236, Proposed Retransfer of High Enriched U (HEU) Scrap from Canada to Uk & Back to Canada for Medical Isotope Production at NRU Reactor. Commission Approved,Subject to Editorial Comments
ML20212C587
Person / Time
Issue date: 10/21/1997
From: Hoyle J
NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY)
To: Stoiber C
NRC OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS (OIP)
References
REF-10CFR9.7 SECY-97-236-C, NUDOCS 9710300039
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SUBJECT:

STAFF REQUIREMENTS:

SECY-97-236 - PROPOSED RETRANSFER OF HIGH EliRICHED URANIUM (HEU) SCRAP FROM CANADA TO THE UK AND BACK TO CANADA FOR MEDICAL ISOTOPE PRODUCTION AT THE NRU REACTOR

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The Commission approved, subject to the editorial comments noted in the-enclosure, the staff's proposed response to the Department of Energy indicating that the NRC does not object to the transfer of 26 kilograms of enriched uranium scrap from Atomic Energy of Canada, Limited, to the United Kingdom Atomic-Energy Authority for the purpose of recovering HEU, which will then be returned to Canada for use as target material for the production of molybdenum-99, The Commission's decision on this matter-was made with the understanding that the retransfer will be transported in secured military. aircraft.

The proposed letter to the Department of Energy should be revised and issued promptly.

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This SRM, SECY 97-236, and the Commission voting record will be made publicly available 5 working days from the date of this SRM.

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Dear Ms. Fitzgerald:

Department of E ergy entering intgp subsequen%4nd does not The Nuclear Regul ory Commission has review t-arrangement for the transfer of 25 kilograms o high enriched urahium, enriched to 93.15 percent in the isotope uranium-235, rom Canada to the United Kingdom for processing and return to Canada for use at the NRU research reactor as target material for the production of medical isotopes (RTD/EU(CA)-15).

Sincerely, Ronald D. Hauber, Director l

Nonproliferstion, Exports and Multilateral Relations Office of International Programs

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