Orano Enrichment USA LLC; (Project Ike Enrichment Facility); Notice of Receipt of Application for License; Notice of Consideration of Issuance of License; Notice of Hearing and Commission Order; Opportunity To Request a Contested Hearing; and Order Imposing Procedures for Access to Sensitive Unclassified Non-Safeguards Information and Safeguards Information for Contention Preparation

Document Headings Document headings vary by document type but may contain the following: the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document the number of the CFR title and the number of each part the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly related to the agency docket number / agency internal file number the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions See the Document Drafting Handbook for more details. Nuclear Regulatory Commission [Docket No. 70-7038; CLI-26-11] Commissioners: Ho. K. Nieh, Chairman; David A. Wright; Bradley R. Crowell; Matthew J. Marzano; Douglas W. Weaver. I. Receipt of Application and Availability of Documents The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has received an application from Orano Enrichment USA LLC (Orano) for a license to receive, acquire, possess, and transfer byproduct, source, and special nuclear material for the purpose of constructing and operating the Project IKE Enrichment Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. [ 1 ] Orano is a regional subsidiary of Orano SA, a French multinational nuclear fuel cycle corporation majority-owned by the French state. The requested license would authorize Orano to possess equipment capable of enriching uranium, to construct and operate a uranium enrichment facility, and to receive title to, own, acquire, receive, possess, use, transfer, and/or deliver source material, special nuclear material, and byproduct material as specified in the license for a facility that performs the mechanical separation of isotopes using a fast rotating cylinder (centrifuge) to enrich uranium. The facility would be known as the Project IKE Enrichment Facility and would be located in eastern Tennessee, in Roane County, on land owned by the Industrial Development Board of the City of Oak Ridge. [ 2 ] The requested license would authorize Orano to re-enrich depleted uranium hexafluoride (UF 6 ) tails and enrich natural-grade UF 6 to …