ML19295E518

Application by Ga Co to Export Triga Mark II Research Reactor to Malaysia.Description Encl

ML19295E518
Person / Time
Site:	05000579
Issue date:	01/19/1977
From:	Mowry W GENERAL ATOMICS (FORMERLY GA TECHNOLOGIES, INC./GENER
To:	NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
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ML19295E519	List: ML19295E518
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IEL-776, SECY-80-495, NUDOCS 8011250704
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GENER AL ATOMIC COMPANY Po nox ese SAN OiEGO. CALIFORNIA 92138 In Repl>"

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Subject:

Application for Utilization Facility Export License Gentlemen:

This application is made under 10CFR50.65 for a license to export to Malaysia a TRIGA MARI' II Research Reactor, which the applicant manufactures. The export of the Sf;M in the reactor fuels and fission chambers will be the subject of a separate application under 10CFR70. The export of the required Americium-Beryllium (AmBe) neutron sources will be made under the 10CFR36 General License.

The applicant is General Atomic Company, a California partnership, whose address is shown above. The applicant is engaged in the development, manu-facture and marketing of reactors, nuclear fuels and systems.

The applicant's partners are Gulf Oil Corporation and Scallop fluclear, Inc.,

Pennsylvania and Delaware Corporations, respectively, whose addresses are:

Gulf Oil Corporation Scallop fluclear, Inc.

Gulf Suilding and One Rockefeller Plaza Pittsburgh, PA 15230 tiew York,tiew York 10020 The partnership conducts its business principally at San Diego, California.

It is not owned, controlled or dominated by an alien, a foreion corporation, or foreign government within the meaning of the Atonic Energy Act of 1954, a e, amende<i, and of i1RC's regulations. In making this application, General Atomic is not acting as an agent or representative of any other person.

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Director of fluclear flaterial IEL-776 Safety and Safeguards January 19, 197, The purchaser and ultimate consignee of the reactor is the Tun Ismail Atomic Research Centre of the ffinistry of Science Technology and Environment in Malaysia. It is our understanding fialaysia is a signator to the fiuclear flonproliferation Treaty (f4PT) and the reactor will be used for research and training in nuclear science and for isotope production.

The first shipment of reactor components made under the requested license is scheduled on or about July 1,1977. Final component shipnent and the fuel shipment is scheduled for not later than fiarch 1979. Fuel loading and reactor checkout are scheduled for completion by l lay 1979.

The total value of all items to be exported under the requested license will be approximately 31,600,000 including the value of the owned uranium in the fuels.

u,hominal The reactor being exported is a TRIGA flark II with pulsing capability and a steady-state power of 1000 KW thermal. The TRIGA Mark II is an above-ground, water-filled, pool-type reactor. The initial reactor core will consist of standard TRIGA fuels containing stainless-steel clad Uranium-Zirconium Hydride. The uranium is enriched in U-235 to less than 20'; (nominal enrichment 19.9"). Additionally, Attachment A provides a list of the basic operating characteristics of the TRIGA Mark II.

The location of the research center, which contains the reactor is: Sungei Buloh estate, Selangor, Malaysia, located approximately twenty miles fron1 Kuala Lumpur,fialaysia.

Items being exported under the requested license will consist of instrumentation systems and components, reactor mechanical components, reactor coolinn system components, fuel handling equipmen ., experimental facilities, a complement of spares and replacement components and such equipment and tools needed to service the reactor. Certain other items will be exported for temporary use. Such item:

described under 10CFR50.65(c)(2)(vi), include specialized tools, instruments and associated start-up monitoring equipment. These certain items exported for temporary use will be returned to the applicant upon completion of the reactor checkout.

Director of Iluclear 14aterial IEL-776 Safety and Safeguards January 19, 197/

We request the timely issuance of a Utilization Facility Export License authorizing the export of a TRIGA I4 ark II Research Reactor to fialaysia.

We request the license have a validity period through tiay 1980 to accomo-date possible schedule slippage during the construction and start up of the reacto..

. Very truly yours, p ' / of William R. f4owry Licensing Adninistrator I;uclear l'aterials Control Division WRM:ts Attachment A STATE OF CALIFORilIA)

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After being duly sworn, the person known to ne to be William R. flowry, Licensing Administrator, fluclear fiaterials Control Division, General Atomic Company, signed the above document this '.; : 9 day of January 1977.

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Steady State: 250 to 2000 kW, U-ZrHl.6 fuel

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Pulsing: %2,000,000 kW nominal liigh pulsing option: 16,400,000 ku FLUX (Maximum.) - n/ca'-sec 1000 kW Steady State 1000 MW Pulse Thermal (<0.21 eV) 3.5 x 1013 3.5 x 1016 Fast (>10 kev) 4. 0 x 1013 4.0 x 1016 NUCLEAR PAR.U!ETFRS Fuel: About S0 f uel elements (f or 1000 kW) 1.47 in. o.d. r 28.37 in.

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