ML20126L206

Forwards RAI in Relation to Completion of Review of 920527 Application for Amend to License R-115

ML20126L206
Person / Time
Site:	University of Illinois
Issue date:	01/04/1993
From:	Alexander Adams Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Hang D ILLINOIS, STATE OF
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TAC-M83566, NUDOCS 9301070362
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~ Docket No.?501151'

-Dr.-Daniel F. Hang, Director i

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' Department of Nuclear Engineering-214 Nuclear Engineering Laboratory 103 South Goodwin Avenue

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SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION (RAI) (TAC NO. M83566)

-We are continuing our review of your application for amendment of Facility . .!

License No. R-115 for the University of Illinois ~ Advanced TRIGA Reacter which l you submitted on May 27, 1992. . During our review of your application, "

i questions have arisen for which we require additional information and clarification. P16ase_ provide responses to the enclosed RAl within 30 days of

-the date of this letter. Following receipt of the additional information, we i

will continue our evaluation of your application. If you have any questions regarding_this review, please contact me at (301) 504-1127.  ;

In accordance with 10 CFR 50.30(b), your response must be executed'in a signed

original. under oath _or affirmation.

This requirement affects nine or fewer respondents and, therefore, is not subject to Office of Management and Budget review under P. L.96-511.

Sincerely, I

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Alexander Adams, Jr.

Senior Project Manager -1 Non-Power Reactors and Decommissioning Project Directorate 1 Division of-Operating Reactor Support Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

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SUBJECT:

REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATIOP (RAI) (TAC NO. M83566)

We are continuing our review of your application for amendment of facility License No. R-ll5 for the University of Illinois Advanced TRIGA Reactor which you submitted on May 27, 1992. During our review of your application, questions have arisen for which we require additional information and clarification. Please provide responses to the enclosed RAI within 30 days of the date of this letter. Following receipt of the additional information, we will continue our evaluation of your application. If you have any questions regarding this review, please contact me at (301) 504-1127.

In accordance with 10 CFR 50.30(b), your response ast be executedLin a signed original under oath or affirmation.

This requirement affects nine or fewer respondents and, therefore, is not subject to Office of Management and Budget review under P. L.96-511.

Sincerely, d*f Alexander Adams, Jr.

Senior Project Manager Non-Power Reactors and Decommissioning Project Directorate Division of Operating Reactor Support Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

Enclosure:

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University of Illinois Docket Nos. 50-151/356 cc:

Honorable Jeffrey T. Markland City Hall P. O. Box 219 Urbana, Illinois 61801 Dr. Daniel Hang, Director Nuclear Reactor Laboratory University of Illinois Urbana, Illinois 61801 _

lllinois Department of Nuclear Safety Manager, Office of Nuclear Facility Safety 1035 Outer Park Drive Springfield, Illinois 62705 Mr. Richard L. Holm, Acting Reactor '

Supervisor Department of Nuclear Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign 103 South Goodwin Avenue Urbana, Illinois 61801-2984 m

" i, L 6 .a s REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION UNIVERSITY OF ILLIN0IS DOCKET NO. 50-151 If the reply to any of these questions changes your proposed Technical Specifications (TS), please submit revised typed TS pages.

1. Please provide additional information concerning your request to remove authorization from the Facility License to receive, possess and use 2.6 kilograms of contained uranium-235. Why are you making this request?

2. Please rewrite paragraph 2.8. of Facility License R-115 breaking down the 5 kilograms of uranium-235 into amount, enrichment and fona. Also include authority to possess, but not separate, such special nuclear material as may be produced by the operation of the facility.

Attachment 1 provides an example of the "Part 70 paragraph" of a license written in this format. The purpose of this format is to specifically identify the high enriched uranium, if any, possessed under the Facility License.

3. Item e. of proposed Definition 1.14, Abnormal Occurrence, an unplanned reactor scram due to, for example, component failure or power failure, would be reportable because it is an unanticipated change under your current TS. ANSI /ANS 15.1-1990, "The Development of Technical Specifications for Research Reactors," excludes reactor trips from a known cause as being reportable. Consider making this change to your TS to reduce abnormal occurrences that have little or no safety significance.

4. Item f. of proposed Definition 1.14, Abnormal Occurrence, discusses an observed inadequacy that could have caused an unsafe condition. What about an observed inadequacy that does cause an unsafe condition? As the definition is currently written, this is not an abnormal occurrence.

Please address this issue.

5. Item g. of proposed Definition 1.14, Abnormal Occurrence, discusses degradation of the containment boundary. Does your reactor facility have a containment? If it has a confinement, change Item 9. to reflect your facility design.

6. In your proposed TS 6.1.2 a. 3., Staffing, what is considered "readily available on call" under the current Nuclear Laboratory Rules and Regulations?

7. In your proposed TS 6.1.3, Selection and Training of Personnel, what is your understanding of the current regulations and guidelines for the selection, training, and requalification of operations personnel? Are these regulations and guidelines stated in a facility procedure?

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8. In Section 6.2 of the current TS, Review, responsibility number 7 of the N , lear Reactor Committee, to approve individuals for the supervision and operation of the! reactor, appears to have been deleted. Who has this responsibility under your proposed TS?

9. In your proposed TS 6.4, Procedures, does item g concerning procedures for radiation protection include handling of byproduct material produced by the reactor and the shipment of byproduct material from the reactor license?

10. In your proposNf Section 6.8, Reporting Requirements, please remove reference to t;v. Uirector, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, from _

the address for headquarters reports. Addressing reports for headquarters to the Document Control Desk is sufficient,

11. In your proposed Section 6.8 a., Reporting Requirements, you discuss confirming telephone reports in writing by telegraph or similar conveyance. Please consider changing this to confirming in writing by facsimile or similar conveyance. Required telephone reports to the region should also be made to the headquarters operations center,

12. In your proposed Section 6.8 d., Reporting Requirements, you deleted 10 CFR 50.59 change summaries from the list of items to be included in the annual report. Please be aware that these summaries are a requirement of 10 CFR 50.59(b)(2) and must continue to De provided to the NRC at an annual interval. Keeping this as a requirement of the annual report would insure that this regulation is met.

13. In your proposed Table of Contents, Section 6.9, Plant Operating Records does not have a page number. Please correct.

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