ML20248D574
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| Site: | 07000157 |
| Issue date: | 03/07/1989 |
| From: | Bauer T, Klein D TEXAS, UNIV. OF, AUSTIN, TX |
| To: | NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
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| 25327, NUDOCS 8904110512 | |
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Dear Sir:
It is requested that Item 10 of Special Nuclear Material License No.
SNM-180 be amended to add the new Nuclear Engineering Tenching Laboratory (NETL) TRIGA reactor facility referenced in Docket 50-602 as an authorized place of use and storage of the special nuclear material under this license.
The facility containing the TRIGA reactor will be situated on the east q
track of the Balcones Research Center (see Figure 1), a tract of land owned and operated by The University of Texas. The Research Center is located in northern Travis County and the City of Austin about 11.6 kilometers north-northwest of The University of Texai:, at Austin campus.
j Figure I shows the location of the NETL st the Balcones Research Center.
Figure 2, 3, and 4 show the layout of the new NETL facility.
We also wish to submit the names of those University personnel who are currently responsible for the administration of this license.
i T.L. Bauer, Laboratory Assistant Director / Supervisor, Taylor Hall, Room 104, U.S. Citizen
- D.E. Klein, Laboratory Director, Cockrell Hall, Room 10.340, l
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J.R. Howell, Chairman, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Teaching Center, Room 5.214A, U.S. Citizen H.H. Woodson, Dean, College of Engineering, Cockrell Hall, Room I
10.310, U.S. Citizen G.J. Fonken, Provost and Executive Vice President, Main Building, Room 201, U.S. Citizen l
- B.W. Wehring will replace D.E. Klein as Laboratory Director in June, 1989.
l Dr. Wehring's resume is given in Enclosure 1 Approved:
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AFFIDAVIT Gerhard J. Fonken being duly sworn, hereby deposes and says that he is Executive Vice President and Provost, The' University of Texas at Austin; that he is duly authorized to sign and file with the Nuclear Regulatory i
Commission the attached Request for Amendment to the SNM-180 license for location of activities; that he is familiar with the content thereof; and L
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_ BERNARD W. WEHRING-l Education
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M.S. Physics University of Illinois 1961.
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1966 Employment 1959 (summer).
The Bab' cock and Wilcox Co., Atomic Energy Division.
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Autonetics, A Division of North American Aviation 1959-1962 Teaching Assistant.in Physics, University.of Illinois 1962-1963 Research Assistant in Nuclear Engineering, i
-1 University of'lilinois-i 1966-1970
. Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering, i
University of Illinois.
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' Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering,
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1977-1984 P(ofessor of Nuclear Engineering, University of Illinois 1981-1982
" Revolving" Assistant Dean of Engineering,-
University'of Illinois 1984-present Professor-of. Nuclear' Engineering, North Carolina State University 1984-present Director of Nuclear Reactor Program, t
North Carolina State University Society Nembership Ame*ican Nuclear Society - Fellow
- Member of ANS 5.2 Working Group and ANS Standards Committee
-_ Member, Program Committee. Radiation Protection.and Shielding Division American Physics Society - Member
.American Society.of Engineering Education - Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers - Member instrument Society of America - Member
- i Jionors Tau Beta Pi Atomic Energy Commission Special Fellowship Sigma Xi American Men & Women of Science Who's Who in Atoms Best Paper Award, American Nuciear Society,~ Radiation Protection and Shielding DivP, ion, June 1978
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One of Professor - Wehring's thesis students, G.
Dilorio. won the. '1977 ' Mark Hills Award given by. the American Nuclear Society for outstanding ' graduate
.research in nuclear science _and' engineering.
.in ' nationwide competition. Dr.
J Dilorio's paper, 'lHIAWATHA: A Fission-Fragment Recoil Mass Spectrometer," was l
judged best original technical paper submitted for the award.'
.i Professor'Wehring's fission _research is listed'and described in'the two' report-
. series " Progress in Fission Product Nuclear Data" which is published by the Nuclear Data Section of the International Atomic Energy Agency. (1977-83)Tand,
I the " Actinide Newsletter" which is published by Oak ~ Ridge National Laboratory'-
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Research For Professor Wehring's doctoral research,_ he-designed and. built bent-crystal spectrometer for the measurement'of characteristic x rays e, unique:
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in fission of U-235..This was the first measurement _of.x rays coincident.with 1
fission using. a spectrometer capable of resolving : Kot. x rays of. adjacent-Z.
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fission fragments.
As = a member of the f aculty at the University of Illinois, he initiated and:
guided multiparameter experimental studies. of prompt and delayed'.x rays and gamma rays emitted by fission fragments.
Besides determining th'e amounts of particular types of radiation emitted by, radioactive fission fragments, these measurements also gave. information about the elements formed in fission,o the types _ of transitions in excited fission fragments, and.the nuclear structure of neutron-rich nuclei ~.
He provided major guidance in measurements of beta rays from U-235 and Cf-252
- fission fragments and was responsible for the unfolding technique and empiri-cal-fitting scheme used in this research.
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measurements on the spontaneous fission of-Cf-252 are unique, the results of i
the measurements on; thermal-neutron-fission of U-235 are more important and were incorporated into fission'rcactor decay heat standards.
1 Professor Wehring initiated an experimental program to make direct physical.
measurements of. the nuclide yields in thermal-neutron fission'using the time--
of-flight 7 echnique.
A new. fission-fragment recoil massc spectrometer, t
HlAWATHA, was conceived, designed, and constructed.
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The best ' mass ' resolution previously obtained for. this type of experiment was 2.0 amu.
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a study. of fission-fragment slowing : down. more detailed than-hed previously '
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'HeLalso initiated'research-at the University of Illinois in the area of recoil spectroscopy.
By using pulse-shape discrimination on;the output of an NE-213 organic scintillator, neutrons, measured by proton recoil, are sorted from gamma rays which are measured by Compton electron recoil.
A spectrometry, system was. developed and was used. to. measure energy spectra of neutrons and j
gamma rays leaking from homogeneous spheres containing neutron sources.
The results are compared. to calculated spectra as tests of multigroup cross sec-9 tion sets for materials of interest to fission and. fusion reactor development.
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I Research started at the University of'lllinois and continued at North Carolina State. University includes the development. of 'the solid state nuclear track detector CR-39 for use as a practical f ast-neutron dosimeter and also for use l
as a research tool in microdosimetric measurements. Research started at North
-Carolina State University includes the investigation of advanced alpha-particle detectors made of heavy elements. as altc 'atives to silicon surf ace-barrier detectors for the "foll-neutralization technique" of alpha-particle diagnostics in fusion reactors with high neutron backgrounds.
CdTe' and Hgl2 detectr,rs are being considered and tested for radiation response and radiation damage characteristics.
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Professor Wehring. is also collaborating with. 3 f aculty members at North i
Carolina State University on an ' experimental 1' demonstration of a-decrease in j
the high-heat-flux erosion 'of a material surf ace due to the presence, of a
'J strong parallel magnetic fleid.
This Magnetic Vapor. Shielding effect has 1
application to high-power switching devices, gun barrels, rail guns,,and beam.
j targets. He is the member of the team who has had experience in " pulse power."
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accelerators at AHL (tandem and linac), ORNL (tandem), and LANL (Van de Graaff).
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Responsible for the development of the courses NE-351, Nuclear Engineeri,ng Laboratory, NE-4901, Nuclear Instrumentation, and NE-490N, Nuclear Data s
Analysis, University of Illinois.
Shared responsibility for the development of the courses NE-347, Introduction to Nuclear Engineering, NE-421, l_nteraction of Radiation with Matter,
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NE-451, Nuclear Reactor Laboratory, and NE-490F, Fission Physics, University of Illinois.
Consultant for Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, Champaign, Illinois, 1970-71.
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Sabbatical leave of Absence, Van'de Graaff Laboratory, Oak Ridge Na'tional Laboratory, Fall 1973.
Extramural Teaching..Decatur, Illinois, Spring 1974.
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S Contract with the Van de Graaff Laboratory Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 1975-77.
I Faculty Research Appointment with Ar;11ed Physics Division Ar'gonne National Laboratory, 1975-77.
Cross Section Evaluation Working Group subcommittee, Fission Product and-Decay'
,. Data, Brookhaven' National Laboratory,'1975-present..
Member of the Radiation Biophysics and Bioengineering in Oncology Training Program, University of Illinois, 1977-83.
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Consultant for Applied Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 1977-79.
Consultant for Theoretical Olvision, Los Alamos S'clentific Laboratory, 1977-79.
Outside User, Superconducting Heavy-lon Linac, Argonne National Laboratory, j
1981-present.
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Responsible for the development of the courses NE-202, Fundamentals of Nuclear Energy, NE-520 Radiation and Reactor fundamentals,.and NE-521, Nuclear i
Laboratory Fundamentals, North Carolina State University.
Principal Investigator on Grants or Contracts NSF GK-4804, " Study of Fission Fragment Photons Having Energies Below 200 kev," 11-1-68 to 11-1-70, with M. E. Wyman, 183,100.
1 NSF GK-28159, " Study of Fission Fragment Photons' Having Energies Below 200
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kev," 3-15-71 to 3-15-73, with M. E. Wyman, 182,600.
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NSF GK-38725
" Experimental Study of. Fission-Fragment Stopping Powers and A Direct Determination of the Nuclide Yields in Thermal-Neutron Fission,"
6-1-73 to 11-30-74, $25,000.
NSF ENG73-04076, " Study of Fission Fragment Photons-and Electrons," 12-1-73 to 5-31-76, with M. E. Wyman, $81,200.
NSF ENG75-00974." Experimental Studies of Fission-Fragment Stopping Powers and l
Direct Nuclide-Yleid Measurements," 4-1-75 to 9-30-76,144,300.
Varian Contract 765715, '" Measurements and Calculations of Fast-Neutron and Secondary Gamma-Ray Leakage Energy Spect~a from Bulk Media," 10-25-76 to l
r 3-25-78, with J. J. Dorning, $3,000.
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- .NSF ENG76-23714, " Experimental Studies of Fission-Fragment Stopping Powers and Direc6 Nuclide-Yield Measurements," 3-1-77 to 8-31-79, $90,000.
NSF ENG77-17784, " Data Acquisition System for Experimental,Research," 9-1-77
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to 2-28-79, $16,500.
j NSF ENG78-11225,
" Data Acquisition. System for Experimental Studies in-1 Nucleonics," 7-15-78 to 6-30-80, $25,800.
1 NSF SER79-14718, " Improvements in Nuclear Engineering Laboratory Instruction,"
10-1-79 to 3-31-82,'$17,500.
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-1 US-D0E DE-AC02-83ER53147, "TFTR Alpha Extraction ; and Measurement,"
1/1/83-
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12/31/84, with G. A. Gerdin,.$25,000.
US-DOE DE-FG02-84ER53172, "TFTR Alpha Extraction ~ and Measurement,"
2/1/84-1/31/85, with G. A. Gerdin, $27,000.
j US-DOE DE-FG05-85ER53195, "T'FTR Alpha Extraction and ' Measurement--Development and Testing of Advanced Alpha Detectors," 2/1/85-1/31/86, $26,416.
Electrical Utilities, " Equipment: Freon PWR Loop," 12/16/85-12/31/87, with J. R. Caves and P. J. Turinsky, 150,000 Virginia Power Company;
$50,000 Carolina Power and Light Company, $50,000 Duke Power Company.
-Submitted-to-NSF r " Engineer-ing-Resear-sh-Equipment-Grant 4--Neu+-aa %ner-at4r, "
-6/4/86 -5/30/87v430@0-pending,
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US-00D, " Proof-of-Principle Experiment for Magnetic Vapor-Shield Mechanism," Equipment, FY 1986-87, with 0. Auciello, O. Hankins, and i
J. Gilligan, $86,000.
US-DOD ARO/SDI DAALO3-87-K-0103 " Control of Surface fielting and Ablation in Electromagnetic Launchers Via Magnetic Vapor Shield Mechanism," 7/15/1987-7/15/1989, with J. Gilligan,'O. Auciello, and O.
- Hankins,
$ 300,000.
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