Re[2]: Uranium Acetate

[maj_louie_tonry@ddeamc.smtplink.amedd.army.mil]

     This has always been a point of contention.  Although uranyl acetate 
     is sold routinely through chemical distributors without regard to its 
     radioactivity, it is also routinely refused by chemical hazardous 
     waste disposers!  Buy some and try to get rid of it afterwards and 
     you're in for a rude suprise.
     
     Louie Tonry
     
          
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Subject: Re: Uranium Acetate 
Author:  <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu > at Internet-Mail
Date:    2/25/99 4:15 PM


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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