Re: Uranium Acetate

[Steve Cima <cima@bellsouth.net>]

A popular General License (out of 10 CFR Part 40) reads as follows:

40.22 Small quantities of source material.

(a) A general license is hereby issued authorizing commercial and industrial
firms, research, educational and medical institutions and Federal, State and
local government agencies to use and transfer not more than fifteen (15)
pounds of source material at any one time for research, development,
educational, commercial or operational purposes. A person authorized to use
or transfer source material, pursuant to this general license, may not
receive more than a total of 150 pounds of source material in
any one calendar year.

(b) Persons who receive, possess, use, or transfer source material pursuant
to the general license issued in paragraph (a) of this section are exempt
from the provisions of parts 19, 20, and 21, of this chapter to the extent
that such receipt, possession, use or transfer are within the terms of such
general license: Provided, however, That this exemption shall not be deemed
to apply to any such person who is also in possession of source material
under a specific license issued pursuant to this part.

(c) Persons who receive, possess, use or transfer source material pursuant to
the general license in paragraph (a) of this section are prohibited from
administering source material, or the radiation therefrom, either externally
or internally, to human beings except as may be authorized by NRC in a
specific license.

[26 FR 284, Jan. 14, 1961, as amended at 38 FR 22221, Aug. 17, 1973; 42 FR
28896, June 6, 1977; 45 FR 55420, Aug.
20, 1980]

Steve Cima
cima@bellsouth.net


Bob wrote:

> Here is a question that has probably been asked and answered many times
> before on Radsafe. Can anybody tell me if there is an exempt quantity for
> Uranium Acetate with regards to its radioactivity.
>
> You can email me direct at caspar@aecom.yu.edu.
>
> Thanx,
> Bob
>
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