Re: NRC REG. Exempting Check Sources

[chatho@roadrunner.com (Charles Thomas)]

>A twist to what Wes says about exempt quantities is that they
>must be distributed under an "E" license if it is "commercial"
>distribution.  A licensee could give an exempt quantity to
>someone without an "E" license.  However, NRC guidance prohibits
>declaring a quantity exempt for the purposes of disposal.  So a
>licensee could give an exempt quantity to a public school, but
>not the local landfill. ;)
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>Some agreements state(s) have modified the language of their
>regulations to restrict what licensees can treat as exempt.
>
>Dale Boyce
>dale@radpro.uchicago.edu
As an example in New Mexico (an agreement state) there is no exempt quantity
of Pu.  It is hard to teach HP techs who might end up at LANL alpha
spectroscopy with out a Pu source.  It is very hard no impossible to get a
small Community College to get a liscence for about 15 students a seimister


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