ML060730346

Advance Notification of Two Shipments of Spent Fuel from Cambridge, Ma to Westinghouse - Savannah River Co. in Aiken, Sc, Using Route Described in the Enclosure

ML060730346
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Site:	MIT Nuclear Research Reactor
Issue date:	11/16/2001
From:	Newton T Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
To:	Bennington G NRC/NMSS/SFPO/SLID, Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response
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NUCLEAR REACTOR LABORATORY AN INTERDEPARTMENTAL CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY JOHN A. BERNARD 138 Albany Street, Cambridge. MA 02139-4296 o-5 00 0 0i/ 8'OActivation Analysis Director Director of Reactor Operations Telefax No. (617) 253-7300 Tel. No. (617) 253-4211 o s7oceoa oo jf' y

( Coolant Chemistry Nuclear Medicine Principal Research Engineer doD5Reactor Engineering November 16, 2001 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 two shipments 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 cortact me if further information is required.

Thomas H. Newton, Jr., PE Reactor Engineer TN/gw cc: J. Bernard E. Lau 51SP gQ-410-C4- 06e/lki pJssIO5 fuLIC (