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RE: Radioactive vinegar bottle ?!?!
Is the naturally occurring uranium or thorium used to make glass bottles
regulated by the NRC? I thought that NORM was under the regulation of the
states or EPA? Does this NPRM (Notice of Proposed Rule Making) have
anything to do with the use of NORM?
-- John
John Jacobus, Area Health Physicist
Radiation Safety Branch
Building 21, Room 238
Telephone: 6-5774
Fax: 6-3544
E-mail: jjacobus@mail.nih.gov
jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard F. Orthen [mailto:rorthen@EARTHSCIENCES.NET]
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 3:09 PM
To: Marty.Bourquin@GRACE.COM; liptonw@DTEENERGY.COM;
radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: RE: Radioactive vinegar bottle ?!?!
Marty-The source material waters are being muddied a bit. On August 26,
2002, the NRC issued a NPRM stating, in part:
"Currently, NRC regulations exempt persons from licensing requirements for
source material if they possess or use only materials that contain less than
0.05 percent by weight of uranium and thorium. A report issued in June 2001,
"Systematic Radiological Assessment of Exemptions for Source and Byproduct
Materials," NUREG-1717, indicates that, in certain situations, quantities of
source material in concentrations below the 0.05 limit could potentially
result in exposures to radiation that exceed NRC's public radiation dose
limits.
The proposed rulemaking would ensure that transfers of source material at
very low concentration levels from specific licensees to persons exempt from
licensing do not cause undue risk to the public. A licensee seeking to
transfer such low levels of source material would have to submit information
to NRC on the type and quantity of the material, location of the transfer,
end use of the transfer, individual public dose estimates, and assumptions
used in estimating the dose. The NRC would independently analyze the request
before approving the transfer."
. . .
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