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Responds to Which Provided Executive Branch Views & Recommendations on Two Pending Nuclear Export Licenses, XSNM-3012 & XSNM-3013,for Supply of Highly Enriched U to Canada for Medical Isotope Production.Questions Encl
ML20247F936
Person / Time
Issue date: 05/06/1998
From: Hauber R
NRC OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS (OIP)
To: Stratford R
STATE, DEPT. OF
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NUDOCS 9805200093
Download: ML20247F936 (3)


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1 Mr. Richard J.K. Stratford

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Dear Mr. Stratford:

I refer to your letter of March 13,1998 which provided Executive Branch views and recommendations on two pending nuclear' export licenses (XSNM3012 and XSNM3013) for supply of highly enriched uranium to Canada for medical isotope production.

i To help the Commission reach decisions in these two cases, we request that you provide us with responses to the questions listed in Enclosure 1.

Sincerely, Original signed by: Donna C. Chaney for Ronald D. Hauber, Director Division of Non-Proliferation, Exports and 3

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Dear Mr. Stratford:

I refer to your letter of March 13,1998 which provided Executive Branch views and recommendations on two pending nuclear export licenses (XSNM3012 and XSNM3013) for supply of highly enriched uranium to Canada for medical isotope production.

To help the Commission reach decisions in these two cases, we request that you provide us with responses to the questions listed in Enclosure 1.

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onald D. Hauber, Director Division of Non-Proliferation, Exports and Multilateral Cooperation Office of International Programs

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NRC QUESTIONS FOR THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH ON NRC EXPORT LICENSE CASES XSNM3012 AND XSNM3013 1.

Is there currently an active DOE funded program underway at Argonne National Laboratory that is aimed specifically at developing low-enriched uranium (" LEU") targets that can be used for the production of Molybdenum 99 ("Mo 99")in both the MAPLE and the NRU reactors?

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What is the current inventory of HEU target material at the NRU reactor?

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How long is this inventory projected to last?

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At what annual rate will the NRU reactor use HEU target materialin the event that the MAPLE reactors do not come on line?

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