ML20149J241

Provides Reminder That License R-115 for Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Advanced Triga Reactor Will Expire on 980809 & Guidance for Preparing Application for Renewal

ML20149J241
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Site:	University of Illinois
Issue date:	07/24/1997
From:	Alexander Adams NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned)
To:	Holm R ILLINOIS, UNIV. OF, URBANA, IL
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% %g /[ July 24, 1997 Mr. Richard L. Holm Reactor Administrator Radiation Science Laboratory University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 214 Nuclear Engineering Laboratory 103 South Goodwin Avenue Urbana, Illinois 61801-2984

SUBJECT:

RENEWAL OF OPERATING LICENSE NO. R-115

Dear Mr. Holm:

P This-letter is to remind you that License No. R-115 for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UI) Advanced TRIGA Reactor (TRIGA) is scheduled to expire on August 9, 1998, and to provide you guidance for preparing your application for a renewal of the license. Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR 2.109) allows continued operation under your current license until the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) acts upon an-application for renewal provided the application is received at least 30 days prior to the expiration.date of your current license.

The NRC considers the renewal of a non-power reactor operating license to be equivalent to reissuing the license. Therefore, renewal is not merely a routine administrative step, but involves in-depth reviews of all documentation related to the facility, an onsite review, and publication in the Federal Reoister of a notice of your request that provides the opportunity for public participation, as well as a notice of the results of our review of your. application.

Your renewal application should address the requirements in applicable sections of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations, and should demonstrate that the reactor can continue to be operated safely and without ,

adverse impact on the environment or the public. For the review of your '

renewal application, the NRC staff will consider the guidance contained in the NRC Division 2 Regulatory Guides for Research Reactors (Enclosure 1), NUREG-1537, " Guidelines for Preparing and Reviewing Applications for the Licensing of Non-Power Reactors" (Enclosure 2), and the industry standards in the American Nuclear Society ANS-15 Series for research reactors.

In order for us to perform an adequate review, you are requested to include, as part of your. application, all of the following documentation, in accordance l with 10 CFR 50.33 and 50.34: sj

.l. Uodated Safety Analysis Report (SAR)

A complete updated edition of your Safety Analysis Report (SAR) is required to be submitted with your renewal application. The SAR should-include information that describes the facility and all changes nade 9707280131 970724 PDR m

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Potential and reasonable accident scenarios and their consequences should be analyzed using the best current input data and computational techniques, and should be compared, wherever possible, with facility operating experience.

Furthermore, the SAR should include updated information and analyses on demography, meteorology, geology, seismology, and other natural and unnatural phenomena.

2. Financial Oualifications (10 CFR 50.33(f))

This information must show that there is reasonable assurance that you will be able to obtain the funds necessary to cover estimated operating costs for the period of the requested license renewal plus the estimated costs of permanently shutting down the facility and either decommissioning it or maintaining it in a safe condition. To facilitate our review, we request that the following information be provided, appropriately certified:

a. The most recently published annual financial statement of the University. Indicate the source of funds utilized to cover costs of operation of the Nuclear Reactor Laboratory,

b. The estimated annual cost to operate the reactor for the requested period of renewal, the underlying assumptions and bases of the estimate, and certification that future budgets will include these funds, and

c. The estimated costs of eventually shutting down the reactor and safely disposing of it, a listing of what is included in these costs, the assumptions underlying these estimated costs, the type of shutdown contemplated, and the source of funds to cover these costs.

3. Environmental Reoort (10 CFR Part 51)

Your Environmental Report (ER) should include sufficient operational data, analyses, and discussions to prov de a substantial basis for NRC to develop its environmental assessment.

4. Iechnical Soecifications The content and format of Technical Specifications should be developed considering the guidance in ANSI /ANS 15.1-1990, "The Development of Technical Specification for Research Reactors" and NOREG-1537. Any changes to the current Technical Specifications should be proposed and justified at the time of the license renewal application so they can be evaluated during the review.

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l 5. Ooerator Reoualification Proaram (10 CFR 50.54 (1-1) and 10 CFR Part 55)

A copy of your current and implemented operator requalification program will be reviewed with your renewal application to ensure it meets current Please submit any changes you NRC requirements for.non-power reactors.

wish to make as part of the renewal application.

6. Emercency Plan (10 CFR 50.54(q). and (r) and 10 CFR 50, Appendix E) l As your emergency plan has been approved by NRC, you need only reference those respective UI and NRC documents. However, if you wish to modify  ;

your emergency plan, any ' changes should be submitted for NRC review in

.accordance with the above-cited regulations.

-7. Physical Security Plan (10 CFR 73.67)

You have an approved physical security plan on file with NRC which we shall review. Accordingly, you need only reference the license amendment containing that documentation. However, if you wish to modify your physical security plan, changes should be made in accordance with the requirements of 10 CFR 50.54(p) or 10 CFR 50.90.

8. Filina of Acolic dian The requirements for submitting your renewal application and all other formal documentation relating to your license with respect to addressee, notarization, signatory and number of copies are defined in 10 CFR 50.4 and 10 CFR 50.30.

9. Staff Visit As a part of our review of your facility, members of the NRC licensing staff may visit your facility. This visit will be coordinated with you ,

following receipt of your application for renewal.

For your further guidance in preparing the proper information to be included in your license renewa1' application, we are enclosing a copy of a license package recently issued for a non-power reactor facility (North Carolina State University, Enclosure 3). This includes the staff's Safety Evaluation Report (NUREG-1572) and Environmental Assessment, and the new license for the reactor. Upon completion of our review and a favorable evaluation of your facility,- similar documents will be issued in conjunction with renewal of your reactor operating license. The Safety Evaluation Report is provided as an example of the type of findings we must make. Your documentation must provide P

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the technical and descriptive information that will support our issuance of a similar. evaluation for your facility.

V If you have any questions, please contact me at (301) 415-1127.

Sincerely, Original signed by:

Alexander Adams, Jr., Sr. Project Manager Non-Power Reactors and Decommissioning Project Directorate Divi:10n of Reactor Program Management Office o# Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-238

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i If you have any questions, please contact me at (301) 415-1127.

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