RE: Transport of a Self-Contained Irradiator

["Grimm, Lawrence" <LGrimm@FACNET.UCLA.EDU>]

Wesley:



I mis-spoke a little in my last post, indicating the irradiator needed to be IN a 2R container.  That is pretty hard to do with an irradiator - it would take a VERY big pipe. Be advised that many irradiators are 2R containers, but the 2R container must nestle inside another specification container.  Refining my statement about "other specification" containment, typically a 20WC or 21WC specification container is used to transport the irradiator.  You can find the requirements for these in 49CFR178.362/.364.  It is no small task to build and test one of these containers.



  It has been a while since I looked at the ins and outs of the certification process, so maybe another Radsafer can tell you if you can use someone else's certification (e.g. Shepherd's) for a same design/built specification container (if you can find one closer to home). If you can both use the certification and find a container, then I advise following Ruth Weiner's post on transport companies.



Larry Grimm, Senior HP

UCLA EH&S/ Radiation Safety Division

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