ML20212D861
| ML20212D861 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | University of Missouri-Columbia |
| Issue date: | 12/30/1986 |
| From: | Rozier Carter Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Brugger R MISSOURI, UNIV. OF, COLUMBIA, MO |
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| NUDOCS 8701050091 | |
| Download: ML20212D861 (4) | |
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D2cember 30, 1986 Docket No. 50-186 Dr. Robert M. Brugger, Director Research Reactor Facility University of Missouri Columbia, Missouri 65211-l
Dear Dr. Brugger:
SUBJECT:
REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION We are continuing our review of your application dated September 26, 1986, for a unique purpose exemption pursuant to 10 CFR 50.64(c)(1) for your reactor facility. During this review, several questions have arisen for which we require additional information in order for us to complete our evaluation. You are requested to provide written responses to the enclosed i
questions no later than sixty days from the date of this letter. Following receipt of this information we will continue our review.
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If you have any questions concerning this request, please contact me at
.(301)492-8206.
The reporting and/or recordkeeping requirements contained in this letter affect fewer than ten respondents; therefore, OMB clearance is not required under P.L.96-511.
Sincerely, Original signed by Robert E. Carter, Project Manager Standardization and Special Projects Directorate Division of PWR Licensing-B Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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Dear Dr. Brugger:
SUBJECT:
REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION We are continuing our review of your application dated September 26, 1986, for a unique purpose exemption pursuant to 10 CFR 50.64(c)(1) for your reactor facility. During this review, several questions have arisen for which we require additional information in order for us to complete our evaluation. You are requested to provide written responses to the enclosed questions no later than sixty days from the date of this letter.
Following receipt of this information we will continue our review.
If you have any questions concerning this request, please contact me at (301)492-8206.
The reporting and/or recordkeeping requirements contained in this letter affect fewer than ten respondents; therefore, OMB clearance is not required under P.L.96-511.
t Sincerely.
Robert E. Carter, Project Manager Standardization and Special Projects Directorate Division of PWR Licensing-B Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
Enclosure:
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x.4 ENCLOSURE University of Missouri-Columbia Docket No. 50-186 Unique Purpose Exemption Request Request for Additional Information y
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An important justification for a unique purpose exemption is that the reactor program contributes significantly to the national interest and cannot be accomplished without the use of HEU fuel.
In 1984 a Major Materials Facility Committee of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences reviewed major neutron research facilities in the United States. Please provide us with any comments or recommenda-tions of this Committee, or any comparable group, with respect to your facility, that may establish your reactor program's contribution to the national interest.
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Provide a quantitative discussion which demonstrates that your reactor core is of special design and could not perform its intended function without using HEU fuel.
Discuss whether the reactor could continue to provide adequate support for the University's programs if LEU fuel were to be used. Provide the bases for these determinations.
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Research projects which are based on neutron flux levels or spectra attainable only with HEU fuel can be considered as a basis for a unique purpose exemption. Provide quantitative estimates, and the bases therefore, of the impact on your programs resulting from changes in neutron flux densities, fluences, and/or neutron spectra if LEU fuel were substituted for HEU fuel. Address LEU fuels currently available and any LEU fuels expected to be available within several (5) years.
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Provide any supplemental information that you believe has a significant bearing on the viability of your reactor programs if you were required to convert to LEU fuel.
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