[ RadSafe ] DU Licensing

[bobcherry at satx.rr.com]

Unofficial (emphasize, unofficial) answer:  
When the U.S. military takes depleted uranium munitions and DU armor supplements (or any other NRC-licensed RAM) outside the United States (and its possessions and territories), fired or not, it is outside NRC jurisdiction. However, generally, the U.S. military handles it IAW NRC regulation anyway because its regulations mirror those of the NRC for the most part. In addition, under applicable status-of-forces agreements, if any, the U.S. military must abide by host nation regulations if the host nation regulations are stricter than those of the U.S. 
Unused DU munitions and DU armor return to NRC jurisdiction when the U.S. military brings them back to the States.
Official answer: The NRC has formally addressed the licensing question in its reply to a petition for rulemaking. Go to the NRC ADAMS web search page (http://adamswebsearch.nrc.gov/scripts/securelogin.pl) and search on "Rokke." The relevant documents will be listed.
Bob C

----- Original Message ----- 
From: John R Johnson <idias at interchange.ubc.ca> 
Date: Thursday, December 14, 2006 12:49 pm 
Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] DU Licensing 
To: Cehn at aol.com, radsafe at radlab.nl 

> Good question, Joel 
> 
> I don't know the answer but it may be in one of the following reports 
> 
> Radiation Risks and Uranium Toxicity, A Brodsky, RSA Publications, 
> 1996 
> A Review of the Scientific Literature as it Pertains to Gulf War 
> IllnessesHarley et al RAND, 1999 
> 
> Depleted Uranium Sources, Exposure and Heath Effects, World Health 
> Organization, 2001 
> 
> John 
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> -----Original Message----- 
> From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl]On 
> Behalf Of Cehn at aol.com 
> Sent: December 14, 2006 9:48 AM 
> To: radsafe at radlab.nl 
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] DU Licensing 
> 
> 
> Here's a licensing question for the group: what happens to 
> licensed DU 
> after it is used as military projectiles/penetrators? The stuff 
> can and 
> does 
> turn up in D&D operations long after the DU rounds were fired. 
> Is the 
> rule: 
> once licensed, always licensed? Has anyone addressed this 
> question with 
> regard 
> to DU? 
> 
> --Joel C. 
> _joelc at alum.wpi.edu_ (mailto:joelc at alum.wpi.edu) 
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