ML20059F578

Application for Amend to License SNM-1168,authorizing Use & Possesion of 1 Uci of Standard Samples of Atomic Number 1-96

ML20059F578
Person / Time
Site:	07001201
Issue date:	11/01/1993
From:	Knapp K BABCOCK & WILCOX CO.
To:	Pierson R NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
References
NUDOCS 9311050005
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\\nd An ihnerican Company with Worldwide Resources P.O. Box 11646 Lynchburg VA 245061646 Telephone:804-522-6000 November 1, 1993 Mr. Robert C.

Pierson, Chief Licensing Branch Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards, NMSS Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.

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Dear Mr. Pierson:

B&W Fuel Company's (BWFC) Commercial Nuclear Fuel Plant (CNFP) requests the above referenced SNM license be amended to authorize the use and possession of 1 microcurie of standard samples of atomic number 1 - 96.

Inclusion will allow CNFP to participate in EPA's cross-check program for our air sampling program.

Section 1.4.10 has been added to authorize receipt of these standards.

In addition, an exemption for moderation control is required to allow floor mopping.

Presently, 4.1.6.1 limits the amount of liquid to 20 - one gallon containers.

This limit restricts the use of our floor cleaning machine.

For the most part, the machine is used when fuel is absent from the area.

Section 4.1.6.1 has been revised to allow authorization of its use.

As required, six copies of the affected pages (1-2 and 4-5) are included.

The revisions are identified with a side bar.

If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please feel free j

to call me at (804) 386-5202.

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Sincerely, B&W FUEL COMPANY COMMERCIAL NUCLEAR FUEL PLANT CtiW4L 6. \\(CC40P

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r B&W FUEL COMPANY, COMMERCIAL NUCLERR FUEL PLANT USNRC LICENSE SNM-1168, DOCKET 70-1201 PART I - CHAPTER 1.0 - STANDARD CONDITIONS & SPECIAL AUTHORIZATIONS i

1.4 Nuclear and By-Product Materials Possession Limits

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1.4.2 100,000 kilograms of uranium as depleted or natural

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material in powder or pellet form and composed of uranium oxides.

1.4.3 350 grams of uranium as natural UF for storage j

6 only.

Up to 10 curies of encapsulated by-product material 1.4.4 contained in one or more sealed sources.

Atomic numbers 3 to 83 inclusive.

1.4.5 Up to 6.0 grams of encapsulated plutonium contained in one or more sealed sources.

1.4.6 Up to 3.0 milligrams of Californium-252 contained in one or more scaled sources.

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1.4.7 Up to 350 grams U without limit on chemical, j

235 physical, or isotopic composition, for analytical and labortory purposes.

t 1.4.8 Up to 10.0 curies of by-product material (including j

i transuranic elements) as contamination on/within equipment, unirradiated fuel components and/or as l

waste.

1.4.9 Up to 5.0 curies of Americium-241 in one or more sealed sources.

t 1.4.10 Up to 1

microcurie of standard samples for instrument calibration purposes.

Atomic numbers 3 to 96 inclusive.

1.5 Authorized Activities 1.5.1 Tabrication of nuclear power fuel assemblies j

starting by inserting fuel pellets into rods, through fuel assembly

bundling, packaging and delivery of fuel assemblies to a carrier for transport, and repair of returned assemblies.

1.5.2 Disposal of various solid,

liquid, and airborne wastes resulting from the authorized activities l

excluding onsite burial.

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B&W FUEL COMPANY, COMMERCIAL NUCLEAR FUEL PLANT USNRC LZCENSE SNM-1168, DOCKET 70-1201 TART I - CHAPTER 4.0 - NUCLEAR CRITICALITY SAFETY 4.1.6 Dedicated Controls The CNFP prigary criticality control for SNM prior to fuel bund?a assembly is the four inch slab criteria and moderation control.

Upon completion of fuel rod fabrication, spacing and moderation control are relied upon.

These controls are main-tained by the following:

4.1.6.1 Moderation Control All accumulations of liquids and hydroge-nous materials are regulated through the local safety rules.

The authorized volume per container is one gallon with a total volume not to exceed 20 gallons.

This criteria is exempt for floor mopping or when SNM material is absent.

For the fuel assembly areas, water lines are baffled.

4.1.6.2 Pellet Receipt Pellets are received by the vendor in approved shipping containers which contain six cardboard boxes of fuel pellets.

When they are removed from the shipping con-tainer, the boxes are stacked two high (8 inch slab) in-transit to the conveyor.

This only occurs for a very short period of time and only one shipping container (six boxes of pellets) are transferred at any one given time.

They are placed on the conveyor one cardboard box at time which initiates the four inch slab.

There is a physical barrier on the conveyor to prevent anything above four inches from i

entering the pellet loading room.

4.1.6.3 Pellet Loading Room The pellets remain in the box for storage purposes.

The vault is constructed with a barrier to prevent double stacking of the boxes.

Only if the boxes were manually lifted above this barrier could double stacking result and this would take great effort on one's part to do and could not be accomplished accidently.

For loading purposes, the pellets remain stacked on the corrugated trays in a four inch slab.

All hoods, the pellet down draft table and carts are either twenty-five inches in width or a red line indi-PAGE:

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