Re: Shipping Violation

["Alan R. Marchand" <radarm@accessnv.com>]

T (Tritium) a2 value is 1080 Curies. 173.425 Table 7 lists under gases:

Tritium  instruments or articles limit as 10-3   A2, package limits 10 -1
A2,
and materials package limits at       2 x 10-2  A2.  
Since the shipment was Radioactive Material, Excepted Package-Limited Quantity
of Material, the upper limit is 108 Curies. 9 Curies is well within the
limits.

Alan R. Marchand
Las Vegas, NV
radarm@accessnv.com

At 08:09 PM 7/1/98 -0500, you wrote:
>I have a question on a shipping violation.  Our organization just received a
>limited quantity shipment.  This shipment included an internally
>contaminated vacuum pump.  According to the documents the pump contains 9
>Ci. of H3.  The way I read the regs. this pump should have been shipped in a
>type A container.  The question is does this require notification to the
>NRC.  I have been unable to find any requirement for notification since no
>exposure or spread of contamination was involved.  If someone feels I am
>misreading or missing the requirements in the regulations please let me know.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Tom Baccus,
>Health Physicist
>Idaho State University
>baccus@physics.isu.edu
>