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| title = PNO-IV-98-022:on 980605,notified Nrc,Region IV That Mfg Sciences Corp Had Returned Shipment of Zirconium Cladding After Discovery of Two Unirradiated Fuel Pellets within Cladding.Nrc Region IV Will Perform follow-up Review
| author name = Britz W, Spitzberg D
| author affiliation = NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION &amp; ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV)
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| docket = 07001257
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| document report number = PNO-IV-98-022, PNO-IV-98-22, NUDOCS 9806090066
| document type = PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR OCCURRENCE (PNO,, TEXT-INSPECTION &amp; AUDIT &amp; I&amp;E CIRCULARS
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I June 5,1998
            ' PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE PNO-IV-98-022 This preliminary notification constitutes EARLY notice of events of POSSIBLE safety or public interest significance. The information is as initially received without verification or evaluation, and is basically all that is known by Region IV staff in Arlington, Texas on this date.
Facility                            Licensee Emeraency Classification Siemens Nuclear Power Corporation                Notification of Unusual Event Siemens Nuclear Power Corporation                Alert Richland, Washington                                Site Area Emergency Dockets: 07001257                                    General Emergency License No: SNM-1227                             X Not Applicable

==Subject:==
SHIPMENT OF FUEL CLADDING FOR RECYCLE FOUND TO CONTAIN TWO UNIRRADIATED FUEL PELLETS On June 5,1998, Siemens Power Corporation (SPC) notified the NRC, Region IV, that Manufacturing Sciences Corporation (MSC) had retumed a shipment of zirconium cladding after discovery of two unirradiated fuel pellets within the cladding. SPC had contracted with MSC to decontaminate and recycle the cladding and made the shipment in late 1997. The occurrences were reported to SPC on January 28 and May 28,1998. After the second pellet was found, it was decided to retum the entire shipment to SPC. The cause of the two fuel pellets remaining in the cladding is under investigation. MSC notified the state of Tennessee of this occurrence. The presence of these two uranium fuel pellets did not result in MSC exceeding their state of Tennessee license limit on the amount of uranium-235 that MSC is allowed to possess at any one time. The retumed cladding will be examined by SPC to determine if there are other fuel pellets remaining in the cladding.
NRC Region IV will perform a follow-up review of this occurrence to determine if any regulations or procedures were violated during the next inspection of SPC on June 15,1998.
NMSS has been informed of this occurrence.
The states of Washington and Tennessee have been informed.

==Contact:==
Wayne Britz        (817)868-8194 D. B. Spitzberg (817)860-8191 al\
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