RE: NIRS anti-nuclear activity summer 2000

["Edwards, Richard W" <Richard.Edwards@PSS.Boeing.com>]

> Zach Clayton or any other Radsafer:
> 
> Out of curiosity, can you point to a reg that prohibits mislabeling?  
> 
The USDOT regulation has been reported. With regards to materials outside the transport stream, the relevant Washington State regulation is WAC 246-221-120(2) which states:

"The conventional radiation symbol as described in subsection (1) of this section shall ONLY be used for:"

The section then goes on to list the various authorized uses...essentially the various caution signs used for radiation areas, contamination control areas, radioactive materials, and radiation generating equipment.

The equivalent federal regulations (USNRC) are 10 CFR 20.1901 through 10 CFR 20.1902. The feds don't levy the "ONLY" stricture...at least not here. 

On an anecdotal level, during my power plant days, one of the support system staff (I believe he worked at a pumping station) collected every kind of label available for his lunch box. He plopped down in the cafeteria...right next to the on-site NRC inspector and the regional inspection team. They decided the most appropriate response was to treat the situation as if it were real. It made a very interesting unscheduled drill, one that did not make the site radiological controls manager or anyone eating in the cafeteria that day very happy.

Rick Edwards, Analyst
The Boeing Company
richard.w.edwards@boeing.com

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