[ RadSafe ] Exempt Quantity source shipments

[Dan W McCarn]

Dear Wes & Pete:

Don't worry George!

As when I moved from the USA to France, the shipper and the shippee was/is
me! I'm not transferring any material to anyone else; I'm shipping it with
my household from one continent to another.

But I will provide all the calculations and documents (purchase invoice, US
DOT PHMSA Interpretation Letter #07-0210, etc.) in the event some customs
inspector panics.

The DOT PHMSA Interpretation Letter #07-0210 clearly speaks to checked
baggage on aircraft.  I may relieve the shipping company of the problem and
simply place the lead shielded sources with the rest of my checked luggage.
Hardly worth mentioning, the gamma activity at 50 cm is 11 uR/hr (background
is 9 uR/hr).  The surface activity on the lead shield is 150 uR/hr.

Dan ii

--
Dan W McCarn, Geologist

-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl [mailto:radsafe-bounces at radlab.nl] On Behalf
Of Peter Fear
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 16:54
To: radsafe at radlab.nl; WesVanPelt at verizon.net
Subject: RE: [ RadSafe ] Exempt Quantity source shipments

>From what Dan says, it appears that he is shipping the material to himself!
He said in his second message on this that he was moving back to the US from
France and had originally shipped them to himself when he moved there.

Pete


Peter Fear
Health Physics Technologist
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Radiation Safety Office
636 UH
750 E. Adams St.
Syracuse, NY 13210

Phone: (315)464-6510
FAX:     (315)464-5095
fearp at upstate.edu



>>> "Wes" <WesVanPelt at verizon.net> 7/24/2009 9:51 AM >>>
George said.....
	Hold on Dan. I too talked with Larry about this, and he is of
course
the one to ask about shipping regs. The next question is: Who are you
shipping it 
to, and do you have a materials license to transfer radioactive materials?
It is not enough that the material is of exempt quantity, you MUST be
licensed to transfer even exempt quantity, but not to receive it.

Not so. A person may transfer, or in fact do ANYTHING, with a license
exempt
amount of radioactivity. No license is needed.

A person would only need a license to COMMERCIALLY DISTRIBUTE license
exempt
radioactive material.

Wes Van Pelt

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