ML24344A066
| ML24344A066 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 04/08/2025 |
| From: | Diane Jackson NRC/NMSS/DFM/MCAB |
| To: | Lorskulsint P Louisiana Energy Services |
| References | |
| Download: ML24344A066 (1) | |
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001 Paul Lorskulsint, Chief Nuclear Officer and Head of Compliance Louisiana Energy Services, LLC P.O. Box 1789 Eunice, NM 88231
SUBJECT:
REVIEW OF LOUISIANA ENERGY SERVICES, LLC REQUEST FOR APPROVAL TO REASSIGN FOREIGN OBLIGATIONS FOR URANIUM INVENTORY
Dear Paul Lorskulsint:
With this letter the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is responding to the letter from Louisiana Energy Services, LLC, doing business as Urenco USA (UUSA) dated August 20, 2024 (Agencywide Document Access and Management System Accession No. ML24233A310). In that letter, UUSA requested U.S. Government prior approval to assign foreign obligations on similar and fungible uranium inventory specific in the current UUSA special nuclear material (SNM) license SNM-2010.
The NRC reviewed UUSAs request in consultation with its U.S. Government Interagency partners, the Department of State and Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration. The interagency confirms that UUSAs proposed practice for assigning foreign obligations on its uranium inventory, as described in their August 20 request and further discussed in their recent license amendment application (ML23334A122), meets the core principles for tracking foreign obligations on uranium enriched to less than 10 weight percent uranium 235. Specifically:
Quantities of material to be exchanged shall agree with quantities and enrichment level of material that will be authorized under the amended license, if granted, and to the terms given in the UUSA request.
The assignment of foreign obligations from E1 to E2 material shall follow the uranium-235 to preserve obligations across isotopic enrichment and follow all other like-for-like constraints expressed in NUREG/BR-0006, Appendix F.
Foreign obligation accounting shall not be conducted for the purposes of removing foreign obligations from natural progression in the fuel cycle (e.g., swapping obligations to waste to create unobligated non-waste material). Foreign obligations assigned to process-generated waste shall follow the proportionality principle.
April 8, 2025
P. Lorskulsint 2
By this letter UUSA will have U.S. Government prior approval to continue assigning and tracking foreign obligations on low-enriched uranium plus in inventory that crosses the E1 and E2 reporting boundary, as authorized in License Amendment 107 for SNM-2010.
Should you have any questions on assigning and tracking foreign obligations, please contact Mirabelle Shoemaker by email (Mirabelle.Shoemaker@nrc.gov) or phone (301-415-7363).
Sincerely, Diane Jackson, Chief Material Control and Accounting Branch Division of Fuel Management Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Signed by Jackson, Diane on 04/08/25
ML24344A066 OFFICE NMSS/DFM/MCAB NMSS/DFM/MCAB NAME MShoemaker DJackson DATE 4/7/2025 4/8/2025