ML20249B740

Submits Advance Notification of Shipment of RQ Radioactive Matl,Fissile,Nos 7,UN2918,25,000 Lbs,Rq (Reportable quantity);1.5 Kg of Fission Products & MFP (Mixed Fission Products) to Aiken,Sc

ML20249B740
Person / Time
Site:	University of Missouri-Columbia
Issue date:	04/16/1998
From:	Kutikkad D MISSOURI, UNIV. OF, COLUMBIA, MO
To:	Bennington G NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
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NUDOCS 9806240137
Download: ML20249B740 (2)

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U.S. NRC, MS OWFN 6 F-18 j -[

h' Ms. Gloria Bennington Spent Fuel Project Office 1 Whitellint North Bldg.

11555 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 20852-2738

SUBJECT:

Shipment of Spent Fuel: Radioactive Material, Fissile, N.O.S., UN2918, Highway Route Controlled Quantity.

The enclosed envelope contains information regarding radioactive spent fuel shipments from the University of Missouri Research Reactor. This information has been classified as SAFEGUARDS INFORMATION as per 10CFR73.21(b)2. No person may have access to Safeguards Information unless the person has an established "need to know" for this information and is authorized per 10CFR73.21(c). Regulations prevent the disclosure of this information over unsecured telephone communications except that the reporting of schedule changes are permitted to be made by phone in the form of time deviations from the original schedule. Please deliver the enclosed envelope which contains Safeguards Information to the addressee on the envelope. If this person is no longer employed at your facility or will be absent for an extended period, please call (573) 882-5205 for the correct disposition of this material.

Armed escorts have been arranged for St. Louis, Nashville, Chattanooga, Atlanta, and Augusta, for these spent fuel shipments. Also, governors' designees of Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and South Carolina have been mailed notifications. All these shipments will be tracked by the Departn.cnt of Energy's TRANSCOM tracking system.

The following information and the enclosed SAFEGUARDS INFORMATION are supplied to comply with 10CFR73.37(fXi)(ii)(iii).

Shipper:

University ofMissouri i

Research Reactor Center Columbia, MO 65211 Phone: (573) 882-5205 (Das Kutikkad) g Carrier:

Tri-State Motor Transit Co U.S. DOE Idaho Operations Office 785 DOF Place

. Idaho Falls, ID 83403 Phone: (208) 526 2415

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-(Keith Nelson)

Receiver:

Department of Energy Westinghouse Savannah River Company 9

Savannah RiverSite Building 105-L Aiken, SC 29802 Phone: (803) 557 6087 g

(David Blanchard) 1 0J x

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= April 16,1998 Page 2 49CFR172.202(aXIX2X3X4)

- Proper shipping name, hazard class RQ radioactive material, fissile, n.o.s., 7, UN2918, identification number, gross weight.

' 25,000 lbs..

172.203(c) '

RQ (Reportable Quantity); 1.5 kg of fission products Shipment 1: 4.93 kg U-235 Shipment 2: 4.93 kg U-235 -

Shipment 3: 4.90 kg U-235 '

Shipment 4: 4.83 kg U-235 49CFR172.203(dX1)

- (i) 173.435, radionuclides MFP(Mixed Fission Products)

(ii)

Physical and chemical form Solid metallic, UAla and Al mixed with fission products trapped in this matrix. The UAl,--Al-fission product.

material is clad with aluminum as fuel plates of MTR-type (Materials Testing Reactor) fuel elements.

Original fuel enrichment > 93%.

(iii) Activity -

Shipment 1: 4,218.0 TBq (114,000 Ci)

Shipment 2: 4,958.0 TBq (134,000 Ci)

Shipment 3: 5,624.0 TBq (152,000 Ci)

Shipment 4: 8,880.0 TBq (240,000 Ci)

' 49CFR173.403 Greater than 27,000 Ci or 3,000 x A (1,500 curies), so 2

highway route controlled quantity.

(iv) Label category RADIOACTIVE YELLOW III because it is highway route controlled quantity.

'(v)

Transport index Based on measurement of radiation level at 3.3 fL from cask cover. This is measured at the time of shipment, and in our past shipments, has been < 0.5 millirem /hr.

Hence TI =.5 per 49CFR173.403.

(vi) Fissile material, 49CFR173.45(7Xb). This means by 49CFR173.457(bX1) controlled shipment that transport must be with exclusive use of shipper.

- (vii) Package identification number

' USA /5957/B( )F(Model No. BMI 1)

Mode of transport Highway truck, exclusive use. No transfer points.

i Route enclosed as Safeguards Information.

Sincerelyyours,.

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, Das Kutikkad R,

Reactor Physicist -

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Enclosure:

SAFEGUARDS INFORMATION.

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