ML20212Q889

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Advises That Span of Time from Receipt of Funding to Submittal of Application for Conversion from High Enriched U to Low Enriched U Too Long,In Response to .Updated Schedule Requested within 30 Days of Ltr Date
ML20212Q889
Person / Time
Site: 05000083
Issue date: 04/17/1987
From: Michaels T
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To: Vernetson W
FLORIDA, UNIV. OF, GAINESVILLE, FL
References
NUDOCS 8704240119
Download: ML20212Q889 (2)


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_.m April 17,~1987

' Docket No. 50-83 Dr. William Vernetson ,

Director of Nuclear Facilities 102 Nuclear Reactor Building Department of Nuclear Engineering Sciences University of Florida Gainesville, Ficrida 32611

Dear Dr. Vernetson:

SUBJECT:

HEU/ LEU CONVERSION SCHEDULE FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA TRAINING REACTOR (UFTR)

Your proposed plan for conversion of the UFTR from HEU to LEU, in compliance with the requirements of 10 CFR 50.64(c)(2)(1), submitted by letter dated March 26, 1986, indicates that your " Full Submittal to NRC of Application to Convert" will not be until June 1990 (Table II). We find that the span of time from the receipt of funding to the submittal of your application to convert is too long and request that you review this schedule in order to improve it.

Please provide an updated schedule for conversion of the UFTR within thirty days of the date of this letter. If you have any questions, please contact me at (301) 492-8251.

Sincerely, original signed by Theodore S. Michaels, Project Manager i

Standardization and Non-Power Reactor Project Directorate Division of Reactor Projects III, IV, Y and Special Projects Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

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, / April 17, 1987 Docket No. 50-83 Dr. William Vernetson Director of Nuclear Facilities 102 Nuclear Reactor Building Department of Nuclear Engineering Sciences University of Florida Gainesville, Florida 32611

Dear Dr. Vernetson:

SUBJECT:

HEU/ LEU CONVERSION SCHEDULE FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA TRAINING REACTOR (UFTR)

Your proposed plan for conversion of the UFTR from HEU to LEU, in compliance with the requirements of 10 CFR 50.64(c)(2)(1), submitted by letter dated March 26, 1986, indicates that your " Full Submittal to NRC of Application to Convert" will not be until June 1990 (Table II). We find that the span of time from the receipt of funding to the submittal of your application to convert is too long and request that you review this schedule in order to improve it.

] Please provide an updated schedule for conversion of the UFTR within thirty

( days of the date of this letter. If you have any questions, please contact me at (301) 492-8251.

Sincerely, l [.

  • Theodore S. Michaels, Project Manager Standardization and Non-Power Reactor Project Directorate Division of Reactor Projects III, IV, Y and Special Projects Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation j

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