RERe: Transportation of Wipes for Removable Contamination

[Arminc01@aol.com]

Unfortunately radioactive materials are regulated by roughly 37 different
federal agencies,  each for their own purposes.

DOT (T stands for TRANSPORTATION) regulates hazardous materials (includes
radioactve material in excess of 70 Bq/gram) in TRANSPORT.  

The NRC and/or Agreement State regulates the use of radioactive materials
(some NRC documents state that any detectable activity is radioactive
material for DISPOSAL  purposes) including disposal and possession limits.

If the NRC's former BRC criteria had been finalized AND matched the DOT's
definition of radiaoctive material,  many of these headaches would be gone
(at least domestically).  

Charles Smith
arminc01@aol.com
Applied Radwaste Management, Inc.
http://www.arment.com/armonline