Small time researching looking to get licenced

["Steve Packard" <kb1ipd@HOTMAIL.COM>]

Hello.    I’m a individual and “inventor”  with a great deal of knowledge of 

radiation physics and technology but little of the licensing process.   .



I’ve recently been working as a freelance on radioscopic power systems.   So 

far my research has involved small sealed sources, exempt from licensing.   

However, to expand my activities, I was hoping to begin working with small 

quantities of particle-emitting radioisotopes such as strontium-90, 

carbon-14 and americium-241 (on the usually order of a millicurie).   I’ve 

worked with exempt and general license sources for years and high-level 

sources under licensed supervision.   I am willing to do what is necessary 

to get a license, but the nrc has told me I am looking at more than $4,000 

for even a basic license for these materials.    I live in Connecticut which 

is an NRC state.    I am a student and this is a huge expense to me.   I am 

willing to do whatever is necessary to certify my safety qualifications, but 

the funding is the major stumbling block.   Are there any ways around the 

difficulty and expense?   Some sort of exemption for small-time, 

small-amount research?   A grant application perhaps?     I have found the 

NRC to be of no help, and have called and e-mailed them many times.



Can somebody help me with this?   Point me in the right direction?   What 

are my options?





Many thanks



Steve Packard



Please e-mail me:  KB1IPD@hotmail.com



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