Licensing and Use of Smoke Detectors

["Perrero, Daren" <Perrero@IDNS.STATE.IL.US>]

It would appear that you have interpreted that regulation in a very narrow

way whereas I would read that section as stating "you are exempt from the

regulations in 20, 30 and 36 through 39 if you acquire Am-241 in a smoke

detector that was approved by us for distribution following 10 CFR 32.26."

 

This regulation you cited does not in any way tell the recipient how they

may or may not use the device once it is in their hands.   

 

Other regulations stipulate what you have to do in order to be authorized to

manufacture for distribution those products with radioactive materials (Part

32).

 

The thoughts expressed are mine, mine, all mine! 

I'm with the government, I'm here to help........ 

Daren Perrero, Health Physicist 

perrero@idns.state.il.us 



-----Original Message-----

From: William V Lipton [mailto:liptonw@DTEENERGY.COM]

Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2002 6:36 AM

To: BLHamrick@AOL.COM

Cc: brees@LANL.GOV; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Subject: Re: Rad Sources for Workshops





I don't think so! 



The exemption for smoke detectors, in 10 CFR 30.20 is limited:  "..to the

extent that such [exempt] person receives, possesses, uses, transfers...

byproduct material in gas and aerosol detectors designed to protect life or

property..."  If the source is removed from the detector, the exemption is

lost, and the possession or transfer (i.e., disposal) of the source is

subject to the requirements of 10 CFR 20. 





Once the source is removed, the end user cannot legally reinstall it, since

he then becomes a manufacturer and requires a specific license from the NRC

or an Agreement State. 





The opinions expressed are strictly mine. 

It's not about dose, it's about trust. 

Curies forever. 





Bill Lipton 

liptonw@dteenergy.com 





BLHamrick@AOL.COM wrote: 







Actually, domestically-produced smoke detectors are usually distributed as

items exempt from regulation, thus the end user can technically do anything

they want with them, but I would recommend strongly AGAINST taking them

apart, as with one microcurie of activity, they contain about 167 stochastic

ALIs. 



Barbara 





Barbara



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