ML20087K858

Forwards Envelope Containing Safeguards Info Re Radioactive Sf Shipments from Licensee Research Reactor & Submits Listed Export Shipment Info,Per 10CFR73.37(f)(i)(ii)(iii).W/o Encl

ML20087K858
Person / Time
Site:	University of Missouri-Columbia
Issue date:	07/14/1995
From:	Hultsch R MISSOURI, UNIV. OF, COLUMBIA, MO
To:	Bennington G NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
References
221AIE, NUDOCS 9508240179
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&llM6 ll Research Park Columbia, Missouri 65211 UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA WQ3(3y2f July 14,1995

/03 Ms. Gloria Bennington I

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Spent Fuel Project Office U.S. NRC, MS TWFN 8 F-5 h

1 Whitellint North 11545 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 20852-2738 l 1

SUBJECT:

Shipment of Spent Fuel: Radioactive Material, Fissile, N.O.S., UN2918, Highway I Route Controlled Quantity. l 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 1 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 (314) 882-5205 for the ,

correct disposition of this material.  !

Armed escorts have been arranged for St. Louis, Nashville, Knoxville, Asheville, and Greenville- i Spartanburg, for these spent fuel shipments. Also, governora* designees of Missouri, Ilhnois, Kentucky, Tennessee, North and South Carolina have been mailed notifications.

The following information and the enclosed SAFEGUARDS INFORMATION are supplied to comply with 10CFR73.37(fXiXiiXiii).  ;

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Shipper: University of Missouri Research Reactor Center l Columbia, MO 65211 I Phone: (314) 882-5205  !

(Roland A. Hultsch)

Carrier: Tri-State Motor Transit Co U.S. DOE Idaho Operations Oflice 785 DOE Place '

Idaho Falls,ID 83403 i Phone: (208) 526-2415 1 (Keith Nelson)

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Receiver: Department of Energy Westinghouse Savannah River Company 9508240179 950714 Savannah River Site PDR ADOCK 05000186 731-10 Receiving F PDR Aiken, SC 29802 Matthew J. Beckum Building 7071H g, p Phone: (803) 557-8773 l

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49CFR172.202(aXIX2X3X4)

Proper shipping name, hazard - RQ radioactive material, fissile, n.o.s., radioactive  !

class, identification number, - material UN2918, 25,000 lbs.

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t gross weight . ,

e ' 172.203(c) RQ (Reportable Quantity) 1.5 kg of fission products; l 5.0 kg U-235 49CFR172.203(d)(1) .

- (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 l i

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

(iii) Activity (Curies) 200,600 .;

49CFR173.403(1X3) Greater than 30,000 Ci, so highway route controlled .

quantities.

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

(v) Transport index Based on measurement of radiation level at 3.3 ft. from I 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(bbXI). (The DOT has  :

confirmed that this section, and not 49CFR173.403 -

(bbX2), is applicable.)

(vi) Fissile class III per 49CFR173.455(aX3). This means by 49CFR 173.457(bX1) that transport must be with exclusive use of shipper.

(vii) Package identification number USN5957/B( )F(Model No. BMI-1)

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

Route enclosed as Safeguards Information.

Sincerely yours, Roland A. Hultsch

. Reactor Physicist bjb -

Enclosure:

SAFEGUARDS INFORMATION

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