ML20206L547

Amend 16 to License SNM-1227 for Siemens Power Corp

ML20206L547
Person / Time
Site:	Framatome ANP Richland
Issue date:	05/11/1999
From:	Sherr T NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
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ML20206L543	List: ML20206L537 ML20206L547 ML20206L554
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NUDOCS 9905140057
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I hRC FORM 374 U.s. NUCLEAR REGULATORY Commission PAGE 1 oF 4 PAGEs .

I MATERIALS LICENSE Pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 (Public Law 93438), and Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, Chapter I, Parts 30,31,32,33,34,35,36,39,40, and 70, and in reliance on statements and representations i

h:r;tofore made by the licensee, a license is hereby issued authorizing the licensee to receive, acquire, possess, and transfer byproduct, sourc2, and special nuclear material designated below; to use such material for the purpose (s) and at the place (s) designated below; to d:; liv:r or transfer such material to persons authorized to receive it in accordance with the regulations of the applicable Part(s). This license shall be deemed to contain the conditions specified in Section 183 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, and is subject to all i rpplicable rules, regulations, and orders of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission now or hereafter in effect and to any conditions specified below.

Licensee

1. Siemens Power Corporation 3. License Number SNM-1227 Amendment 16

2. 2101 Horn Rapids Road 4. Expiration Date November 30,2001 Richland, WA 99352-0130

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_S. Docket No. 70-1257 Reference No.

6. Byproduct Source, and/or 7. Chemical and/or Physical 8. Maximum amount that Licensee Special Nuclear Material Form May Possess at Any One Time Under This License A. Uranium enriched A. Any A. 350 g U-235 "M a in U-235  ;

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B. Uranium enriched up to" 8.: Uranidthb. a B; 25,000 kg U 235 5.00 wt % U-235 compounds 7.g ,

C. Plutonium C. Sealed sources C. 1 mg Pu and not more and_ standards > than 1.5 millicuries D, Plutonium D. PuO2-UO2 D. 500 g Pu stored waste

9. Authorized place of use: The licensee's existing facilities at Richland, Washington.

10. This license shall be deemed to contain two sections: Safety Conditions and Safeguards Conditions. These sections are part of the license, and the licensee is subject to compliance with all listed conditions in each section.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Date: _ .

By: Theodore S. Sherr. Chief Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards Washington, DC 20555 9905140057 990511 PDR ADOCK 07001257 C PDP,

NRC FORM 374A U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY CoMMISsloN PAGE 2 of 4 PAGEs l

License Number SNM-1227 Docket or Reference Number MATERIALS LICENSE -

SUPPLEMENTARY SHEET 70-1257-Amendment No.16 SAFETY CONDITIONS S-1 Authorized use: For use in accordance with the statements, representations, and conditions of Part I of the licensee's application dated October 28,1996, and supplements dated February 21, March 12, a

March 18, May 1, June 9, July 30, August 4, August 13, August 28, January 28, and September 29, 1997; and February 6, April 23, May 29, November 13, December 15,1998; and January 21,1999.

S2 The licensee shall maintain and execute the response measures in the Emergency Plan, Revision 21, dated April 28,1997; or as further revised by the licensee consistent with 10 CFR 70.32(i).

S-3 Notwithstanding Section 6.5 of Part I of the license dated October 28,1996, new uranium hexafluoride (UF ) cylinders purchased by SPC shall conform to ANSI N14.1 or to the tinning requirements specified in NRC's Certificate of Compliance No. 9196 for Model UX-30 packages.

S-4 The licensee shall not process alcohol rags through the Modular Extraction / Recovery Facility.

S-5. Before processing in the Solids Processing Facility (SPF) filtrate tank, the licensee shall assure through periodic sampling of the lagoons and independent sampling of the SPF feed tank, which is before the SPF filtrate tank, that the enrichment is not more than 4.0 wt.% U-235.

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Docket or Reference Number MATERIALS LICENSE 70 1257 ,

SUPPLEMENTARY SHEET Amendment No.16 1

I SAFEGUARDS CONDITIONS 3

Section 1.0 - Material Control & Accountina 3 1

SG-1.1 The licensee shall follow Sections 0.0 through 8.0 (with all pages designated as Revision 31 and dated June 1998) of its Fundamental Nuclear Material Control Plan, titled " Nuclear Materials .)

j Safeguards Procedures Description for the Fuels Fabrication Plants, EMF-12(P)." Revisions to this Plan shall be made in accordance with, and pursuant to, the provisions of either 10 CFR 70.32(c) or j 70.34.

SG-1.2 Notwithstanding Chapter 0.0 of the Plan iden'tified by Condition SG-1.1, which commits to meeting all Affirmation Statements contained in NUREG-1065 (Rev.1), the licensee is hereby granted a limited 5xception from the first Affirmation contained in Section 4.3 of l NUREG-1065 in that receipt of returned fuel rods and/or fuel assemblies (that were originally fabricated at'the licensee's facility and whose SNM encapsulation has not been compromised) need not be measured if the original fabrication values are booked as receipt values.

SG-1.3 A special shutdown,. cleanout physical Inypto$ shall be initiated whenever:

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(i) a loss / theft indication involving an $$;; j sM'quantitp equal io or greater than the l

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Detection Quantity (as defined in Section'8.2.7sf the Pl,sn identified by Condition SG-1.1) cannot otherwise be resolved within 60 days of tfie initial recognition of such indication, and l (ii) a Regulatory ID (as defined in Section 5.13 di the Plan identified in Condition SG-1.1) equals or exceeds the licensee's Detection Threshold Quantity (as defined in Section 8.2.7 l of the Plan identified by Condition SG-1,1). l Whenever a special inventory is required by either (i) or (ii) above, all unsealed and unencapsulated SNM items that are on hand at the time that such a situation is determined to exist, shall be measured (even if previously measured) for SNM content.

SG-1.4 Operations involving special nuclear materials which are not described in the Plan identified in Condition SG-1.1 shall not be initiated until an appropriate oafeguards plan has been approved by the appropriate safeguards licensing authority of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Section 2.0 - Physical Protection For SNM of Low Strateoic Sianificance SG-2.1 The licensee shall follow the physical protection plan entitled "Siemens Power Corporation Physical t

Protection Plan for Special Nuclear Material of Low Strategic Significance," Revision 15, dated January 1998 (letter dated January 22,1998); and as it may be further revised in accordance with the provisions of 10 CFR 70.32(e).

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' NRC FORM 374A License Number SNM-1227 Docket or Reference Number MATERIALS LICENSE 70-1257 SUPPLEMEN TARY SHEET Amendment No.16 i

SG-2.2 The licensee shall ensure that the UO 2Building is locked when unoccupied.

Section 3.0 - International Safeauards SG-3.1 The licensee shall follow, as applicable, Codes 2 through 7 nf Transitional Facility Attachment No.1a dated May 1,1986, to the US/lAEA SafcGuards Agreement.  ;

i SG-3.2 Notwithstanding the requirements of 10 CFR 75.11/d) to submit facility data on forms supplied by the Commission (including lAEA DIQs), the licensee may submit required data in the Advanced Nuclear Fuels Corporation license paper format.

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