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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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