International Uranium (USA) Corporation; Notice of Receipt of Request To Process Alternate Feed

概要

Notice is hereby given that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has received, by letter dated December 19, 2000, a request from International Uranium (USA) Corporation (IUSA), to amend its NRC Source Material License SUA-1358, to allow its White Mesa Uranium Mill near Blanding, Utah, to receive and process up to 17,750 tons of alternate feed material from the Molycorp Site located in Mountain Pass, California. The material is a result of extraction of lathanides and other rare earth minerals and is presently being stored in ponds as lead sulfide sludge. IUSA and Molycorp estimate the amount of material for this amendment request to be up to 17,750 tons and the average uranium content of the material to be approximately 0.15 percent, or greater. IUSA proposes to receive and process the material for its uranium content and dispose of the byproduct material in the mill's tailings cells.