ML20217M779

Informs That GE Received Notification from Doe,Funding During FY98 to Convert GE from HEU Fuel to LEU Fuel Will Not Be Available.Doe Notification Attached

ML20217M779
Person / Time
Site:	Vallecitos Nuclear Center
Issue date:	03/30/1998
From:	Murray B GENERAL ELECTRIC CO.
To:	NRC OFFICE OF INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (IRM)
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NUDOCS 9804080201
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t* . GENuclear Energy Generalllectric Company Valleutos Nuclear Cemer P O Box e60. Vallecitos Road Pleasantim, CA 94566 i:

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l U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission i- Washington, D.C. 20555 i

' Attention: Document Control Desk i

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- Gentlemen:

The General Elecule Ccmp."y aas received notification from the Department of Energy that

' funding during the Fiscal War 1998 to convert the General Electric Nuclear Test Reactor (NTR) from HEU fuel to LEU fuel will not be available.

L A copy of the DOE's notification is attached and is submitted to fulfill the requirements of 10CFR50.64.

Sincerely, R .

B. M. Murray Senior Licensing Engineer

-(925) 862-4455

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Department of Energy RECElVED NAR - 2 tog Germantown, MD 208741290 Febmary 23,1998 bM Dr. C. W. Bassett, Manager Regulatory Compliance General Electric Company Vallecitos Nuclear Center P. O. Box 460, Vallecitos Road Pleasanton, California 94566

Dear Dr. Bassett:

In accordance with 10 CFR Part 50.64, " Limitations on the Use of Highly.

Enriched Uranium in Domestic Non-Power Reactors," you are hereby notified that Federal funding for conversion ofyour reactor to low enrichment uranium fuel will not be available during Fiscal Year 1998.

r You will be notified in the event these circumstances change.

Sincerely, f

f o teri ge, Program Irettor ice of Planning and Analysis Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology I

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