ML20214P871
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| Site: | Framatome ANP Richland |
| Issue date: | 05/31/1987 |
| From: | SIEMENS POWER CORP. (FORMERLY SIEMENS NUCLEAR POWER |
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ADVAN ED kUCLEARFUELSCORPORATION XN '2 SPECIAL NUCLEAR MATERIAL LICENSE NO. SNM-1227, NRC DOCKET NO. 70-1257 REV.
FQ7 WARD This document, XN-2, Revision 13, revises document XN-2 in its' entirety and incorporates all previously submitted amendment applications and licerise amendments as appropriate and valid into a single licensing application document.
In certain instances, previous submittals are incorporated by reference.
This document is divided into two parts. Port I contains the proposed license conditions which are performance requirements to which the licensee proposes to commit. Part ll contains detailed information demon-
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strating the applicant's capability to adhere to the license conditions as specified in Part I, but are not in themselves conditions of license.
This license application was submitted under the company name Exxon Moclear Company, Inc. which was later, changed to Advanced Nuclear Fuels Corporation. Although the name has been revised in this application af ter the fact, there are certain references and materials which will continue to carry the earlier name such as blueprints, reports, and other documents.
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r ADVANCED NUCLEARFUELSCORPORATION XN-2 SPECIAL NUCLEAR MATERIAL LICENSE NO. SNM-1227, NRC DOCKET NO. 70-1257 PART I - LICENSE CONDITIONS R EV.
CHAPTER I STANDARD CONDITIONS AND SPECIAL AUTHORIZATIONS l.1 Corporate Information
'The name of the applicant is Advanced Nuclear Fuels Corporation (ANF).
The applicant is a corporation incorporated in the State of Delaware with its principal corporate of fices located at 600 108th Avenue N.E., Bellevue, Washington 98009. Applicant is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Siemens Capital Corporation, a Delaware corporation with headquarters in New York City.
Siemens Capital Corporation is in turn wholly-owned by Siemens AG head-quartered in Munich, Federal Republic of Germany.
The fuels fabrication plant for which this application is being made is located at 2l01 Horn Rapids Road, Richland, Washington 993S2.
l.2 Site Location The fuels fabrication facility is located in the State of Washington, County of Benton, City of Richland.
It is sited on a 320 acre tract, 0.9 miles west of the intersection of Stevens Drive and Horn Rapids Road within the north boundary of the City of Richland. The site is on the south side of Horn Rapids Road which provides access.
All activities with special nuclear materials are conducted within a controlled access area. The processing of uranium compounds is conducted primarily within the UO2 and Speciality Fuels (SF) facilities with some development activity or pilot scale work in the Engineering Laboratory. Liquid waste processing is conducted primarily in the ammonia recovery facility and lagoon uranium recovery facility which are sited within the waste storage j
lagoon area.
Solid waste is packaged in the various facilities and stored in l
containers in designated storage areas while awaiting shipment to a low level l
radioactive waste disposal site or incineration of the combustible waste in j
the SF Building. Storage of various uranium compounds is conducted in the l
various production facilities or in the Packaged Radioactive Materials l
Warehouse and Materials Warehouse. Storage of UF6 cylinders is conducted outside on pods adjacent to the UO2 plant and packaged fuel elements or i
other uranium products are stored outside or in a warehouse while awaiting shipment.
l 1.3 License Number and Period of License l
1.3.1 Special Nuclear Materials License This application is for renewal of Special fluclear Material License No.
SNM-1227 (flRC Docket flo. 70-1257).
The curren t license expires on October 31, I"86 and ren"wal is requested to cover o period of five (5) years.
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CHAPTER 7 DECOMMISSIONING PLAN 7.1 Decommissioning Criteria The decommissioning plan has been prepared to meet the guidelines and requirements as specified in " Guidelines for Decontamination of Facilities and Equipment Prior to Release for Unrestricted Use or Termination of Licenses for By-Product Source or Special Nuclear Material," U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, July 1982 which is appended to Chapter 3.
7.1.1 Uncontaminated Facilities The disposition of uncontaminated equipment and facilities is not within the scope of this plan, provided that such facilities are verified to be uncontominated in accordance with approved radiation survey procedures.
7.1.2 Residual Radiation Levels The residual contamination levels in decontaminated f acilities to be unconditionally released shall he within the values given in the guidelines mentioned in 7.1 above.
Any equipment or facility which cannot be decon-tominated to those levels shall be transferred to another licensed f acility or demolished, packaged and disposed of at a licensed low-level radioactive waste disposal site.
7.l.3 Records Records of the decommissioning procedures and results will be preserved for at least five years or as required by then current regulations.
7.l.4 Future Changes The decommissioning plan assumes the availability of a low-level radio-active waste disposal facility at reasonable cost, and packaging and transpor-tation requirements consistent with existing regulations.
7.l.5 Financial Provisions Decommissioning of the ANF facility will be conducted at no cost to the public beyond those of ordinary reaulatory activities.
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7.4 Cost Estimate The estimated cost of decommissioning is $7,500,000 in 1986 dollars, distributed in categories as follows:
UO2 Building
$ 981,000 SF Building 383,500 Ancillary Facilities 324,000 Lagoons 524,000 Burial Costs 3,750,000 Administration 300,000 Radiation Surveys 100,000 Safety Equipment 100.000 QA/QC Administration 100.000 Contingency 937.500 TOTAL ESTIMATED COST
$7,500,000 Total estimate includes the following typical quantities and unit costs:
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30,000 labor manhours at $30/hr.
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150,000 cubic feet of burial boxes constructed at material cost of
$5/ cubic foot.
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Sandblasting of 19,100 square feet of floor area.
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Pointing of 87,600 square feet of walls, floors and ceilings.
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150,000 cubic feet of burial material at $25/ cubic foot.
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2,000 cubic yards of excavation for the lagoons.
7.5 Financial Assurance Advanced Morleur Fuels Corporation is o wholly-owned sobsidiary of Siemens Capitol Corporation which in turn is wholly-owned by Siemens AG.
A copy of the lotest Siemens AG corporate annual report is appended to Chapter 9 of this application.
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A letter from the President of Siemens Capital Corporation, which gives specific assurance of the availability of the required funds, is appended to this chapter. (See Appendix A.)
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siernens capitai cup Hans W. Decker (2:238:meoi 767 Fdth Avenue Presdent New York. N Y 10153 April 28,1987 Leland C. Rouse, Chief Fuel Cycle Safety Branch Division of Fuel Cycle, Medical, Academic and Commercial Use Safety Office-of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.
20555 Re: License No. SNM-1227 Docket No. 70-1257
Dear Mr. Rouse:
g Siemens Cap!tal Corporation hereby assures that Advanced Nuclear Fuels Corporation, its 100'h owned affiliate, at the time of decommissioning will have available to it the resources required to satisfy its obligation to decontaminate and decommission the Richland Fuel Fabrication Facility.
Very truly yours, s
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CHAPTER 9 GENERAL INFORMATION 9.1 Corporate Information The names, addresses and citizenship of the current principal officers of Advanced Nuclear Fuels Corporation are listed in Table ll-9.l. Advanced Nuclear Fuels Corporation is wholly-owned by Siemens Capital Corporation, which in turn, is wholly-owned by Siemens AG, a Federal Republic of Germany corporation.
The top organizational structure of Advanced Nuclear Fuels Corporation is depicted in Figure 11-9.l.
The President reports to the 13oord of Directors and directs all company f unctions. The fuel fabrication plant, to which this license applies, is under the sole direction of the Vice President, Engineering and Production Division.
There are four Departments within the Engineering and Production Division which are involved in the handling and/or processing of special nuclear material. These are:
Operations-Richland, Materials and Scheduling, Process and Equipment Engineering, and Fuel Engineering and Technical Services.
Additional descriptive information on these organizations was presented in Chapter 2.
9.2 Fincncial Qualification A copy of the annual report for 1986 of Siemens AG is appended at the end of this chapter which describes the financial condition of the corporation with which Advanced Nuclear Fuels Corporation is of filiated.
9.3 Summary of Operating Objective and Process 9.3.1 General The objective of activities covered by this license application is the production of low enriched uranium fuel for light water reactors.
This is accomplished by beginning with UF6 as a feed stock and incorporates pro-cesses ancillary to the main process including liquid waste treatment and disposal, scrap recovery and recycle, and combustible waste incineration and disposal. Plant capacity is nominally 700 metric tons per year. A very brief description of the main line process is given below.
9.3.2 Summary Process Description Enriched (less than or coual to 5*', I l-2 35) oronium hexofluoride O F,,) is tronsported to the Richland f uel f abrication plant by t ruck in * 'odel 10 rylinders.
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" Ammonium Diuranate (ADU) Process" or the " Dry" conversion process, in the first UF6 is vaporized, hydrolyzed, and then precipitated with ammonia as ADU; the ADU solids are separated from liquid wastes, then passed through a reduction furnace, resulting in UO2 powder. The Dry Conversion process is considered proprietary and is not f urther discussed.
The UO2 powder is passed directly to a blending-milling-slugging-granuicting operation in a closed system and then to pellet pressing or to interim storage.
The powder is fed directly to the press hoppers to the rotary presses through flexible, dust-tight hoses.
The press platen areas are hooded and vented to prevent UO2 dust release to the room. " Green" (unsintered) fuel pellets are conveyed from the presses and loaded into sintering containers.
The fuel pellets are sintered in a controlled hydrogen atmosphere in electrically-heated f urnaces.
The containers of sintered fuel pellets are removed f rom the furnaces and released for grinding.
The UO2 ground of f the fuel pellet surface is washed away by flowing water. UO2 solids are centrifuged from the rinse waters and are processed to recover the uranium.
The sintered, ground f uel pellets are heated in furnaces to remove moisture, and then moved to the fuel rod loading station. Af ter one end cap has been welded onto the cladding tube, the open end is inserted into a glove box and pellets are pushed horizontally along a V-trough into the cladding tubes.
Final closure welding of fuel rods is done in controlled atmosphere welding chambers.
The sealed fuel rods are leak tested and then are moved to a fuel rod enrichment assay device. Af ter fuel rod enrichment assay, the fuel rods are radiographed for weld quality, cleaned, visually inspected for surface defects, and then stored in trays until released for fuel element assembly.
Fuel rods are withdrawn from storage as needed and fabricated into fuel assemblies.
The assembly is thoroughly inspected for dimensional characteris-tics and workmanship. Af ter inspection, fuel assemblies maybe stored within the nuclear fuel fabrication building or packaged in shipping containers for shipment to nuclear power stations. Fuel assemblies may also be packaged and stored in their shipping containers in advance of shipment.
9.3.3 Uranium Scrap Reprocessing Discrepant sintered UO2 is recycled into the process by oxidizing to U03 8 and then hiending into UO2 powder or the U 08 powder is dissolved in 1
nitric acid to form uranyl nitrofe which is pornped into eith"r conversion line and precipitoted using the ADt I process.
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Table ll-9.1 Corporate Information Of fice Incumbent Address Citizenship Chairman of the Dr. W. Keller Hammerbacherstrasse FRG Board 12 + 14 Postfach 3220 D-8520 Erangen, Bavaria Vice-Chairman H. Pekarek Hammerbacherstrasse AUS of the Board 12 + 14 Postfach 3220 D-8520 Erangen, Bavario President and S.J. Beard 600 108th Ave. N.E.
USA Chief Executive Bellevue, WA 98009 Officer Vice-President R.W. McCullugh 2l01 Horn Rapids Rd.
USA Richland, WA 99352 Vice-President R.B. Stephenson 600 108th Ave. N.E.
USA Bellevue, WA 98009 Vice-President D.G. McAlees 600 108th Ave. N.E.
USA Bellevue, WA 98009 Vice-President P.W. Smith 600 108th Ave. N.E.
USA Bellevue, WA 98009 Vice-President M.D. Weiss 2l01 Horn Rapids Road USA (June I,1987)
Richland, WA 99352 Legend: FRG - Federal Republic of Germany AUS - Austria USA - United States of America AMENDMENT APPLIC ATION DATE:
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