Amendment to the Material License Issued to the Curators of the University of Missouri-Columbia Increasing the Limit of Uranium-238

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On June 30, 1997, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission amended Material License No. 24-00513-39, issued to the Curators of the University of Missouri-Columbia (the University), increasing the limit of uranium-238 (U-238) used in the Transuranic Management by Pyropartitioning Separation (TRUMP-S) Project experiments. License Condition No. 29, imposed by the Commission as a result of 10 CFR Part 2, Subpart L proceedings in Memorandum and ORDER CLI-95-01 dated March 1, 1995, limited the amounts of the subject actinides (U- 238; neptunium-237, plutonium-239/240, and americium-241) used in the TRUMP-S experiments to no more than one gram total at any one time as a means of ensuring that the University's emergency plan is effective and sufficient to protect the public from a release of TRUMP-S materials. In 1996, the University requested a license amendment to increase the limit on U-238 from one gram for the total actinides up to 80 grams ( 2.6 x 10 -5 Ci) of U-238, in addition to the one gram total for all other subject actinides. Staff analysis of the information submitted by the University concluded that an increase of U-238 from one to 80 grams ( 2.6 x 10 -5 Ci) with a one gram total f