ML062610256

Advance Notification of Shipment of Spent Fuel from Cambridge, Ma to Westinghouse - Savannah River Co

ML062610256
Person / Time
Site:	MIT Nuclear Research Reactor
Issue date:	08/16/2000
From:	Newton T Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
To:	Bennington G Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards
References
050000201604, 221AED, TAC L23166
Download: ML062610256 (1)

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MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY JOHN A. BERNARD 138 Albany Street, Cambridge, MA 02139-4296 Activation Analysis Director Telefax No. (617) 253-7300 Coolant Chemistry Director of Reactor Operations Tel. No. (617) 253-4211 Nuclear Medicine Principal Research Engineer Reactor Engineering August 16, 2000 Gloria Bennington Division of Safeguards and Transportation U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555

Dear Mrs. Bennington:

This is to inform you that the MIT Nuclear Reactor Laboratory will be making one shipment of spent fuel from Cambridge, MA to Westinghouse - Savannah River Co. in Aiken, South Carolina using the route described in the enclosure. The fuel was used in the MIT Research Reactor and had an original enrichment of 93%.

This notification is furnished in compliance with NRC regulations of 10 CFR 73.

A description of shipment as required by the U.S. Department of Transportation in 49 CFR 173.202 and 172.203(d) is also enclosed. Armed escorts will be provided through cities as required and states' governors' designees are being notified.

Please contact me if further information is required.

Sincer y, Th mas H. Newton, Jr., PE Reactor Engineer TN/gw cc: J. Bernard E. Lau AD/S: /k-ss inA~L