ML20210E962

Amend 17 to License SNM-1227 for Siemens Power Corp,Allowing Storage of Moderated Uranium Compounds in sea-land Containers

ML20210E962
Person / Time
Site:	Framatome ANP Richland
Issue date:	07/23/1999
From:	Sherr T NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
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ML20210E960	List: ML20210E955 ML20210E962 ML20210E968
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NUDOCS 9907290083
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1 NRc FORM 374 u.s. NUCLEAR REGULATORY Commission PAGE 1 oF 4 PAGEs l ,

MATERIALS LICENSE Pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-438), 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 hirctofore made by the licensee, a license is hereby issued authorizing the licensee to receive, acquire, possess, and transfer byproduct, source, and special nuclear material designated below; to use such material for the purpose (s) and at the place (s) designated below; to d: liver 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 applicable rules, regulations, and orders of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission now or hereafter in effect and to any conditions specified l below. l Licensee l

1. Siemens Power Corporation 3. License Number SNM-1227 Amendment 17

2. 2101 Horn Rapids Road

4. Expiration Date November 30,2001 Richland, WA 99352-0130 ,. . _

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5. Docket No. 70-1257 s.) ~ ' Reference No.

6. Byproduct Source, and/or ;c 7. Chemical and/or Physical 8.' Maximum amount that Licensee

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Special Nuclear Material -

Form ' May Possess at Any One Time

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A. Uranium enriched w A. Any. ,

A. 3350 g U-235 in U-235 . .

B. Uranium enriched up to B Uranium- / B. 25,000 kg U-235 5.00 wt % U-235 compounds 3, C. Plutonium C. Sealed sources C. 1 mg Pu and not more

'and standards ; than 1.5 millicuries D. Plutonium D. PuO2-UO 2 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 4

dA g Date: 7/23159 By:T!Le.pdore S. $ffeN. ChE; T ]I Division of Fuel Cycle Safety and Safeguards

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e NRC FORM 374A u.s. NUCLEAR REGULATORY CoMMISsloN PAGE 2 of 4 PAGEs License Number l ,

SNM-1227 MATERIALS LICENSE Docket or Reference Number SUPPLEMENTARY SHEET 70-1257

( Amendment No.17 j SAFETY CONDITIONS S-1 Aut.hbg , use: For use in accordance with the statements, representations, and conditions of Part I of the 4:ensee's application dated October 28,1996, and supplements dated February 21, March 12,

, 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; January 21, and May 27,1999.

S-2 The licensee shall maintain and execute the response measures in the Emergency Plan, l Revision 31, dated March 1999; or as further revised by the licensee consistent with 10 CFR 70.32(i).

S-3 Notwithstanding Section 6.5 of oftheP5rt h R R E 7, 'da.ted October 28,1996, new uranium license (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.

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S-5. Before processing in ths Solids Processin'g Facili,ty (SPF) filtra'te tank, the licensee shall assure through periodic sampling of the lagoons and independent sampling of ~the SPF feed tank, which is before the i SPF filtrate tank, that the enrl5hment is Iriot nior~e than 4.0 wt3 U-235.

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- SNM-1227 MATERIALS LICENSE Docket or Reference Number SUPPLEMENTARY SHEET 70-1257 Amendment No.17 1

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SAFEGUARDS CONDITIONS Section 1.0 - Material Control & Accountina SG-1.1 The licensee shall follow Sections 0.0 through 8.0 (with all pages designated as Revision 31 and f dated June 1998) of its Fundamental Nuclear Material Control Plan, titled " Nuclear Materials Safeguards Procedures Description for the Fuels FaMeation Plards. EMF-12(P)." Revisions ta - :s Plan shall be made in accordance with, and pursuant to, ine provisions of either 10 CFR 70.32g ) or 70.34.

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SG-1.2 Notwithstanding Cnapter 0.0.oflheh;lan identified by, Condition SG-1.1, which commits to meeting all Affirmation Statements contained in NUREG-1065 (Rev.1), the licensee is hereby granted a limitediexception from the first Affirmation contained in Section 4.3 of NUREG-1065 in that receipt of retumed fuel rods and/or fuel assemblies (that were 3 originally fabricated atJhe licen'see's facility and whose SNM encapsulation has not been compromised) need not be measured if _the original fabricati,on values are booked as receipt values. r P c ,; . q 3 l SG-1.3 A special shutdown,ileanout physical invehtory shall be initiated whenever:

O i U!ll!I (i) a loss / theft indication lavolving an SNM q antity equal to or greater than the licensee's Detection Quantity (as dsfined in Section 8.2.7 of the Plan identified by Condition SG-1.1) cannot otherwise be resolved within 60 days of the initial recognition of such indication, and 1

(ii) a Regulatory ID (as de *,ed liiSection 5.13 6f the Plan identified in Condition 1 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). {

Whenever a special inventory is required by either (i) or (ii) above, all unseated and unencapsulated SNM items that are on hand at the time that such a intuation 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 safeguards plan has been l approved by the appropriate safeguards licensing authority of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

S@ction 2.0 - Physical Protection For SNM of Low Strateoic Sianificance I i

SG-2.1 The licensee shall follow the physical protection plan entitled "Siemens Power Corporation Physical l i

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 i provisions of 10 CFR 70.32(e).

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NRC FORM 374A u.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY Commission PAGE 4 of 4 PAGEs License Number SNM-1227 MATERIALS LICENSE Docket or Reference Number SUPPLEMENTARY SHEET 70-1257 Amendment No.17 SG-2.2 The licensee shall ensfe that the UO Building 2 is locked when unoccupied.

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

SG-3.2 Notwithstanding the requirements oi 10 CFR 75.11(d) to submit facility data on forms supplied by the Commission (including IAEA DlQs), the licensee may submit required data in the Advanced Nuclear Fuels Corporttion license paper format.

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