ML20175A206

Global Nuclear Fuel-Americas, LLC - Request to Withdraw 8% License Amendment Request and Approve Criticality Safety Methods

ML20175A206
Person / Time
Site:	07001113
Issue date:	06/23/2020
From:	Murray S Global Nuclear Fuel
To:	Jacob Zimmerman Document Control Desk, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards
References
M200089
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Global Nuclear Fuel Scott P. Murray Manager, Facility Licensing Global Nuclear Fuel 3901 Castle Hayne Road P.O. Box 780 Wilmington, NC 28402 USA M200089 T (910) 819-5950 June 23, 2020 scott.murray@ge.com Jake Zimmerman, Chief Fuel Facility Licensing Branch Division of Fuel Management Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards US Nuclear Regulatory Commission ATTN: Document Control Desk

Subject:

Request to Withdraw 8 % License "mendment Request and Approve Criticality Safety Methods

References:

(1) . N~C License SNM-1097, Docket 70-1113 (2) GNF-A License Amendment Request, 10/31/19 (3) GNF-A/NRC Telecom, 11/26/19 (4) Letter, S. Murray to J. Munson (NRC), "NRC Request for Documents, 11/27/19 (5) Letter, J.I. Zimmerman to S. P. Murray, "GNF-A Acceptance Review and Request for Supplemental Information", 2/6/20 (6) Letter, S. Murray to J. Zimmerman, "GNF-A Response to NRC Request for Supplemental Information", 2/27/20 (7) Letter, J.I. Zimmerman to S. P. Murray, "GNF-A Acceptance Review and R~quest for Supplemental Information", 5/6/20 '

(8) GNF-A/NRC Telecom, 6/17/20

Dear Mr. Zimmerman:

On October 31, 2019, the Global Nuclear Fuel - Americas, L.L.C. (GNF-A) facility in Wilmington, North Carolina, requested an amendment for NRC license SNM-1097 in order to increase the facility enrichment limit from 5 wt.% to 8 wt.% (Reference_2).

Upo~ further review and additional discussions with NRC, GNF-A has decided to withdraw the amendment request at this time and resubmit it at a laterdate. -

As we discussed on November 26, 2019 (Reference 3) and June 17, 2020 (Reference 8), in order to proceed with internal safety bases evaluations, GNF-A hereby requests NRC approval of the current 1 GNF-A nuclear criticality safety analytic methods and validation techniques described in SNM-1097, Chapter 5, Nuclear Criticality Safety, integrated safety analysis hazards and risk assessment methodologies described in SNM-1097, Chapter 3, Integrated Safety Analysis and supplemental reports provided on November 27, 2019 (Reference 4) for use up to 8 wt. %.

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Please contact me if you have any questions or would like to discuss this matter further.

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cc: M. Bartlett, NRC NMSS DFM L. Pitts, NRC RII DFFI SPM 20-025