ML20236N074

Safety Evaluation Supporting Amend 15 to License TR-1

ML20236N074
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Site:	Vallecitos File:GEH Hitachi icon.png
Issue date:	08/03/1987
From:	Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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NUDOCS 8708110364
Download: ML20236N074 (2)

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1. 'o UNITED STATES 8" fgo NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (j $

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..... SAFETY EVALUATION BY THE OFFICE OF , NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION l SUPPORTING AMENDMENT NO. 15 T0 i FACILITY LICENSE NO. TR-1 i

! GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY GENERAL ELECTRIC TEST REACTOR I

l D,0CKET NO. 50-70

1.0 INTRODUCTION

1 By letter dated April 2, 1987, the licensee, General Electric Company I (GE) requested an amendment to License TR-1 for its GE Test Reactor 1 l (GETR). The requested amendment would permit the licensee to remove the cooling tower from the Reactor Facility definition in the Technical 4 Specifications (TS). The GETR license was amended on February 5,1986 to ' i renew the license and authorize possession, but not operation, of the nuclear. test reactor located at the Vallecitos Nuclear Center (VNC)

Alameda County, California, until October 1, 1992. The GETR has not l operated since October 1977. All GETR fuel, fueled experiments and i targets containing special nuclear material have been removed from the  !

reactor facility and shipped from the VNC.

I 2.0 EV_A_LUATION The current TS include the cooling tower in the definition of the reactor facility. The licensee is planning to remove the cooling tower  !

from the facility and, since the cooling tower is in the TS, the licensee has requested that the cooling tower be deleted from the TS.

Removal of the cooling tower from the TS or the facility has no effect on safety since this is a possession-only license. Although the cooling tower is deleted from the definition of " reactor facility" in section 1.9c of the TS, any residual contaminants in the tower would still be covered by those portions of license TR-1 authorizing possession of byproduct material resulting from the operation of the facility. Thus, disposal of portions of the tower would be governed by 10 CFR 20.301.

3.0 ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATION

This amendment is an administrative change which deletes the cooling tower from the TS. The staff has determined that this amendment involves no significant increase in the amcunts, and no significant change in the types, of any effluents that may be released offsite, and that there is no significant increase in individual or cumulative occupational radiation exposure. The Commission has previously issued a proposed finding that this amendment involves no significant hazards consideration and there has been no public comment on such finding. Accordingly, this amendment meets the eligibility criteria for categorical exclusion set forth in 8708110364 870B03 PDR ADOCK 05000070 P PDR

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i 10CFR51.22(c)(9)and(10). Pursuant t'o 10 CFR 51.22(b), no.' environmental' impact statement or environmental assessment need be prepared in connection j with the issuance of this amendment. j

4.0 CONCLUSION

The' Commission made a proposed determination that the amendment involves

.no significant hazards consideration which was published in the FEDERAL-REGISTER (52FR23098)onJune 17, 1987. No public comments were received.

The sta'f has concluded, based on'the considerations discussed above, that: (1) there is reasonable assurance that the health and safety of a the public will not be endangered by the operation in the proposed  !

manner, and (2) such activities will be conducted in compliance with i the Commission's regulations and the issuance of this amendment will not i be inimical-to the common defense and security or the health and safety 1 of the public. I l

Principal Coritributor: Theodore S. Michaels i Dated: August 3, 1987 l

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