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Uranium and Thorium nitrates

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Subject: Uranium and Thorium nitrates
From: "Stephen H. Deitch" <73552.546@CompuServe.COM>
Date: 29 May 96 14:02:57 EDT

yWPC $theramaterialistobedefinedasanoxidizerisaItestwhichisdescribedinAppendixFof49CFRPart173.ThetestcomparestheburningIrateofthecompoundwhenmixedwithcombustiblematerialwiththatofseveralstandardIoxidizercompounds.AsbothUraniumandThoriumnitratearelistedasoxidizers,itisIapparentthattheyareoxidizersbasedonthetests.IIIfyouthenrefertoCFR40Part261.21(a)(4),youwillnotethatamaterialwhichisanIoxidizerasdefinedin49CFRnUnPartnUn173.151,(Thisisanerrorintheregulations.TheIreferenceshouldbeto49CFRPart173.127),thematerialcarriestheD001ignitabilityIcharacteristiccode.IIThenextstepistodeterminehowtoeliminatetheD001code.ThisinformationisfoundinI40CFRnTnnTnPart268.40and40CFRPart268AppendixVI.40CFRPart268.40dictatesId dDEACTddastherequiredtreatmentifthematerialistobelanddisposed.DEACTisIdefinedasd dDeactivationtoremovethehazardouscharacteristicsofawasteduetoitsIigniteability,corrosivity,and/orreactivitydd.AppendixVIismorespecificasitrelatesIspecificallytoD001IgnitableOxidizersbasedon40nonthatthematerialhasIbeentestedper49nherIPresidentI

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