ML20236U911
| ML20236U911 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 11/12/1975 |
| From: | Jennifer Davis, Dreher F, Thornburg H NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE) |
| To: | |
| References | |
| PN-75-122, NUDOCS 9807310169 | |
| Download: ML20236U911 (1) | |
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10 CFR 2.790 INFORMATION PPrLIMINARY NOTIFICATION - NOT FOR PUBLIC DISCLOSURE November 1l4, 1975 PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE
--PN-75-122 (Corrected) m
- b I This preliminary notification constitutes EARLY notice of events of POSSIBLE safety or public interest significance. The information presented is as initially received without verification or evaluation
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and is basically all that is known by OIE staff as of 8:30 a.m. on the date of this notification.
IT SHOULD BE SPECIFICALLY NOTED THAT THIS NOTIFICATION MAY CONTAIN INFORMATION THAT LATER MAY BE DETERMINED TO BE INACCURATE OR INCONSISTENT. AN OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT NOTIFICATION OF AN INCIDENT OR OCCURRENCE (BLUE SHEET) SUBSEQUENTLY WILL BE ISSUED IF WARRANTED.
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" Facility: Westinghouse Electric Corporation Plutonium Fuels
, Development Laboratory (PFDL)
Cheswick, Ps.
Subj ect:
PLUTONIUM EXPORT, XSNM-692 Region I, Philadelphia, learned of details of a sea shipment of mixed
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oxide fuel fabricated into fuel pins, containing 130.5 KGS. plutonium, leaving Philadelphia, 11-13-75 for Genoa, Italy.
Shipment to leave Cheswick, Pa, by truck, 9:00 p.m.,
11-12-75.
GAO has expressed interest in this shipment.
The ship of Italian registry will be loaded in and sail.from Philadelphia on 11-13-75. The ship's itinerary includes a stop in Brooklyn, N.
Y.,
a tM stop in Earle, N. J. on 11-17-75 to load approximately 122,000 lbs, of explosives desetih ri as varheads,'and three ports of call in Spain prior
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to unloading in Genoa, Italy.
4 Details of shipment have been reviewed by Office of Nuclear Materials Safety and Safeguards and Office of Inspection and Enforcement. This review resulted in a determination that shipment meets NRC requirements.
The State and local authorities have not been informed. No press release is planned.
Should this shipment become known, N. Y. public officials and news media interest is possible due to NiC officials' interest in air shipments and surface movements of SNM through NYC.
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OIE received detailed information on this shipment by telephone from s
various sources as late as 3:30 p.m., 11-11-75.
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Contact:
FADreher, IE x7261 EDThornburg, IE x7353 JGDavis, IE x7541 c
N b Distribution:
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Chairman Anders Commissioner Mason S. J. Chilk,,SECY y
Commissioner Gilinsky Commissioner Rowden G. F. Murphy, JCAE N
Co=missioner Kennedy C. C. Kr.cmerer, CA toM L. V. Gossick, EDO D. F. Knuth, IE J. A. Harris, PA
,0y B. C. Rusche, NRR J. La Fleur, ISP T. J. McTiernan, AIA pp K. R. Chapman, NMSS H. K. Shapar, ELD P Bldg /h/DN H St //.'3CM; MNBB //lS[Y Luge #MI.
( f Transmitted:
i PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION - NOT FOR PUBLIC DISCLOSURE
.U 10 CFR 2.790 INFORMATION
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