Re: NRC Licensing of Am-241

["Spell, Bill" <bills@deq.state.la.us>]

I believe that in the early to mid-1960s, there WAS a federal limit of 10 
exempt quantities.  I can't find it in our regulations (cursory look), so I 
presume it was removed.  The federal regulation was probably changed as the 
result of some risk/benefit analyses.

Something which has not been directly mentioned, which may be of interest, 
is that the regulations not only contain exempt quantities, they list quite 
a few "exempt items," including watch dials, lock illuminators, precision 
balances, automobile shift quadrants, marine compases and other marine 
navigational instruments, electron tubes (quite a few varieties of these), 
calibration sources for instruments, etc., containing promethium-147, 
krypton-85, and tritium, as well as gas and aerosol detectors.  There are a 
few others, but you get the point.

Lets not start regulating these things, please!  We have enough difficulty 
with itinerant radiographers and medical practitioners.

Bill Spell
bills@deq.state.la.us
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From: radsafe
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: NRC Licensing of Am-241
Date: Saturday, October 26, 1996 10:46PM

Wes,
The state of California puts a possession limit of 10 exempt quantities
before you must obtain a state RML. You are correct there are no Federal
limits on the number of exempt quantities in possession.

Doug Turner <turners@earthlink.net>At 09:22 PM 10/25/96 -0500, you wrote:
>David Scherer wrote:
>> snip.....
>> transferee.)  Also, if two people gave him the max. exempt quantities of
the
>> same nuclide (or you did it twice), he would no longer be exempt, and 
your
>> transfer would not comply wth 30.41(b).
>>
>
>Hi Dave and Fellow Radsafers,
>
>I think Dave is wrong on the above point.  In fact, a licensee may
>transfer unlimited numbers of single exempt quantities to the same
>(unlicnesed) person.  There is no limit on the number of single exempt
>quantities a person may receive or accumulate. Implied in this is that a
>person may not combine exempt quantities.
>
>See 10 CFR 30.18(a).
>
>Cheers, Wes
>--
>Wesley R. Van Pelt, Ph.D., CIH, CHP                   KF2LG
>President, Van Pelt Assoc., Inc.      vanpeltw@mail.idt.net
>Consulting in radiological health and safety.
>"TIME, its what keeps everything from happening at once."
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