ML16040A119

Idaho State University - Request for Additional Information for License Amendment Request Regarding the Organizational Change for the Idaho State AGN-201 Training Reactor

ML16040A119
Person / Time
Site:	Idaho State University
Issue date:	02/22/2016
From:	Xiaosong Yin Research and Test Reactors Licensing Branch
To:	Van Der Schyf C Idaho State University
Yin X
References
TAC ME6493
Download: ML16040A119 (6)

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February 22, 2016 Dr. Cornelis Van Der Schyf, Vice President Research and Dean of the Graduate School Idaho State University 921 South 8th Avenue, M/S 8130 Pocatello, ID 83209-8130

SUBJECT:

IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY - REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR LICENSE AMENDMENT REQUEST REGARDING THE ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE FOR THE IDAHO STATE TRAINING REACTOR (TAC NO. ME6493)

Dear Dr. Van Der Schyf:

By letter dated May 27, 2015 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML15188A054, Idaho State University (the licensee) requested an amendment to the Facility Operating License R-110 for the Idaho State AGN-201 Reactor.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is reviewing your amendment request regarding the organizational change which impacts the license technical specifications. After reviewing your request, questions have arisen that require additional information and clarification.

Please provide responses to the enclosed request for additional information within 30 days of the date of this letter.

In accordance with Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 50.30(b), Oath or affirmation, you must execute your response in a signed original document under oath or affirmation. Your response must be submitted in accordance with 10 CFR 50.4, Written communications. Information included in your response that is considered sensitive, or proprietary, that you seek to have withheld from the public, must be marked in accordance with 10 CFR 2.390, Public inspections, exemptions, requests for withholding. Following receipt of the additional information, we will continue our evaluation of your amendment request.

Idaho State University Docket No. 50-284 cc:

Dr. Richard R. Brey Idaho State University Interim Dean, College of Engineering Physics Department Campus Box 8060 Pocatello, ID 83209-8106 Dr. Howard Grimes Idaho State University Vice President for Research and Economic Development Mail Stop 8130 Pocatello, ID 83209-8060 Dr. Peter Farina, Director Idaho State University Radiation Safety Officer Technical Safety Office P. O. Box 8106 Pocatello, ID 83209-8106 Director Idaho Dept. of Environmental Quality 1410 North Hilton Boise, ID 83606 Test, Research and Training Reactor Newsletter 202 Nuclear Sciences Center University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 Adam Mallicoat Idaho State University Reactor Supervisor Campus Box 8060 Pocatello, ID 83209-8060 Dr. Marylou Dunik-Gougar, Reactor Administrator Professor and Chair of Nuclear Engineering College of Science and Engineering Idaho State University Pocatello, ID 83209-8060

C. Schyf If you have any questions regarding this review, please contact me at 301-415-1404 or by electronic mail at Xiaosong.Yin@nrc.gov.

Sincerely,

/RA/

Xiaosong Yin, Project Manager Research and Test Reactors Licensing Branch Division of Policy and Rulemaking Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-284

Enclosure:

As stated cc: w/enclosure: See next page

ML16040A119; *concurrence via e-mail NRR-088 OFFICE DPR/PRLB/PM DPR/PROB/LA* DPR/PRLB/BC DPR/PRLB/PM NAME XYin NParker AAdams XYin DATE 02/11/2016 02/10/2016 02/18/2016 02/22/2016 OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING LICENSE AMENDMENT FOR IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY THE IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY TRAINING REACTOR LICENSE NO. R-110; DOCKET NO. 50-284 By letter dated May 27, 2015 (Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) Accession No. ML15188A054), Idaho State University (the licensee) submitted a license amendment request (LAR) to the Facility Operating License R-110 for the Idaho State AGN-201 Reactor.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is reviewing your amendment request regarding the organizational change which impacts the license technical specifications. After reviewing your request, questions have arisen that require additional information and clarification.

Please provide responses to the enclosed request for additional information within 30 days of the date of this letter.

1. The LAR proposed to modify the current organizational chart and the personnel who are responsible for the safe operation of the Idaho State University Training Reactor.

NUREG-1537, Part 1, Guidelines for Preparing and Reviewing Applications for the Licensing of Non-Power Reactors: Format and Content, Section 12.1.1, Structure, states, in part, The individual or group with legal responsibility for holding the reactor license . . . should be shown at the top of the organization.

a) Clarify if the President of the University is now the University Officer as defined in the current Technical Specifications (TS) 6.1.1, The University officer is an administrative officer responsible for the University and in whose name the application for licensing is made. Currently, University Officer is listed at the top of the organizational chart.

b) Under the proposed organizational chart, a University Officer has been redefined as a Vice President or the President, however, from the proposed TS 6.1.1, the definition remains the same as the current TS 6.1.1 definition. Clarify which definition would apply to a University Officer.

c) Though a University Officer is redefined under the organizational chart as in the Notes, there is not a University Officer listed on the chart. Clarify if your intension is to keep the University Officer and, if the answer is yes, where you would like to incorporate the University Officer on the chart.

Enclosure

2. The LAR proposed to add another organizational structure to the current organizational chart.

NUREG-1537, Part 1, Section 12.1.2, Responsibility, states The applicant should discuss the individuals or groups that appear in the organizational structure and their respective responsibility for the safe operation of the reactor and the reactor facility . . .

a) Discuss what roles and responsibilities the Provost-chief administrative officer is having in relation to the operation of the reactor; b) Discuss what roles and responsibilities the Dean, College of Science and Engineering is having in relation to the operation of the reactor; c) Discuss what roles and responsibilities the Chair of Nuclear Engineering and health Physics is having in relation to the operation of the reactor; d) Explain why safe operation of the reactor now goes in two seemly separate reporting routes, and e) Explain the relationship between the two seemly independent structures that will oversee the safe operation of the reactor and why this is necessary.

3. The LAR proposed to change the personnel structure in the current organizational chart.

NUREG-1537, Part 1, Section 12.1.2, Responsibility, states The applicant should discuss the individual or groups that appear in the organizational structure and their respective responsibility for the safe operation of the reactor and the reactor facility . . .

a) Clarify if Authorized Operators and Certified Observers are still in your proposed organizational structure, b) TS 6.1.6 was omitted from the proposed page 21 and the proposed page 23 starting from TS 6.1.11, which are different from the current TS pages 21 and 23.

Provide the proposed TS page 22 with any changes clearly marked, c) Justify all the changes you propose to modify the current TS with respect to the personnel responsibilities for the safe operation of the reactor, and d) Provide all proposed pages (including pages 21, 22, 23, and any other potential affected pages) with all changes highlighted with vertical lines placed on the right side of the proposed changes in word form.

4. The LAR proposed to add another organizational structure to the current organizational chart.

NUREG-1537, Part 1, Section 12.1.5, Radiation Safety, states The applicant should describe the organizational aspects of the radiation safety program.

On the proposed organizational chart, Reactor Safety Committee was removed from the current organizational chart. Provide the justification of the removal and describe how the reactor radiation safety program will be carried out under the LAR proposal.