ML061220325

Pulstar Nuclear Reactor License Amendment; Receive, Possess and Use of Byproduct Materials

ML061220325
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Site:	North Carolina State University
Issue date:	04/25/2006
From:	Cook A Univ of North Carolina
To:	Document Control Desk, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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North Carolina State University is a land- Nuclear Reactor Program grant university and a constituent institution of The University of North Carolina f.,I I 4111k,IkVINI-16IN Department of Nuclear Engineering Campus Box 7909 Raleigh, NC 27695-7909 919.515.7294 919.513.1276 (fa):)

URL:www.ne.ncs i.edu/NRP/reactor_

program.html April 25, 2006 TO: Nuclear Regulatory Commission Document Control Desk U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 RE: PULSTAR Nuclear Reactor License Amendment; Receive, Possess and Use:

of Byproduct Materials.

License No. R-120 Docket No. 50-297 As per teleconference discussion on April 19th, 2006 North Carolina State University is requesting that the application for license amendment for the PULSTAR Nuclear Reactor dated September 21, 2005 allowing for the receipt, possession and use of byproduct material be withdrawn and be replaced with the following:

Section 2.b.(4)

"Pursuant to the Act and 10 CFR Part 30, "Rules of General Applicability to Domestic Licensing of Byproduct Material," to receive, possess and use in connection with the operation of the facility:

(a) any amount of byproduct material in the form of reactor components or otherwise integral to the reactor or a reactor experimental facility, (b) byproduct material which is to be irradiated in the reactor within 31 days of receipt."

The purpose of condition 2.b.4 is to allow the PULSTAR Reactor to receive byproduc:

material in the form of reactor components, reactor experimental facilities, or byproduc:

material to be irradiated that have definite research and development purposes under the reactor license and not other licenses held by the University. This will ensure that all material to be inserted into the reactor is covered by the reactor license and that intermingling of radioactive material across multiple licenses is avoided.

The North Carolina State University PULSTAR Reactor has extensive controls in place for the safe handling of byproduct material, including an approved radiation protection program, health physics procedures, experimental protocols and ALARA policies. Nco changes are required to the existing technical specifications, emergency plan, or security plan.

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4 .2 April 25, 2005 Licensing guidance in support for this amendment is contained in NUREG-1537 (1996)

Gwidelinesfor Preparing and Reviewing Applicationsfor the Licensing of Non-Power Reactors. Specifi:

guidance on the possession and use of byproduct, source and special nuclear material is contained in Section 9.5, Possession and Use of Bjproduct, Source and Special luclearMaterialand Appendix 9.2 license Conditionfor Byproduct Materialto be Irradiatedin a Non-Powver Reactor.

If yiou have any question please feel free to call me at (919) 515-4602.

I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on 25 April 2006.

Andrew T Cook Associate Director, Nuclear Reactor Program cc: Daniel Hughes, US NRC William Schuster, US NRC