ML20235Z296

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Renewed License SNM-21,authorizing Use of 5 Kg U Contained in U-235,2 Kg Pu & 1 Kg Pu Contained in Pu-Be Sealed Source for Decladding,Removal of Bonding Matl,Exam & Repackaging
ML20235Z296
Person / Time
Site: 07000025
Issue date: 10/07/1987
From: Rouse L
NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
To:
Shared Package
ML20235Z279 List:
References
NUDOCS 8710210076
Download: ML20235Z296 (4)


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OF PAGES 6 84 U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION MATERIALS LICENSE Pursuant to the Atomic Energy.Act of 1954, as amended, the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-438), and Title 10, l

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heretofore made by the licensee, a license is hereby issued authorizing the licensee to receive, acquire, possess, and transfer byproduct, i

source, and special nuclear material designated below; to use such material for the purpose (s) and at the place (s) designated below;to I

deliver or transfer such material to persons authorized to receive it in accordance with the regulations of the applicable Part{s)J This I

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17. Notwithstanding the use of alternative methods of calculation specified in Section 4.2.1 of Part I of the license application, only methods.of analysis for calculating nuclear criticality safety parameters, satisfactorily demonstrated to the Commission and approved by it, shall be used in the evaluation of nuclear criticality safety.
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{ Byproduct, Source or Special Nuclear Material," dated August 1987,

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