1.
A general license is hereby issued to those persons listed to own, receive,
acquire, possess, use and transfer, in accordance with the provisions of
subsections 4 and 5, americium-241 in the form of calibration or reference
sources:
(a) Any person who holds a specific
license issued by the Division which authorizes him or her to receive, possess,
use and transfer radioactive material; and
(b) Any person who holds a specific license
issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission which authorizes him or her to
receive, possess, use and transfer special nuclear material.
2. A general license is hereby
issued to own, receive, possess, use and transfer plutonium in the form of
calibration or reference sources in accordance with the provisions of
subsections 4 and 5 to any person who holds a specific license issued by the
Division which authorizes him or her to receive, possess, use and transfer
radioactive material.
3. A general
license is hereby issued to own, receive, possess, use and transfer radium-226
in the form of calibration or reference sources in accordance with the
provisions of subsections 4 and 5 to any person who holds a specific license
issued by the Division which authorizes him or her to receive, possess, use and
transfer radioactive material.
4.
The general licenses in paragraphs (a), (b) and (d) of subsection 5 apply only
to calibration or reference sources which have been manufactured or initially
transferred in accordance with the specifications contained in a specific
license issued to the manufacturer or importer of the sources by the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission pursuant to
10
C.F.R. §
32.57 or §
70.39
or which have been manufactured in accordance with specifications contained in
a specific license issued to the manufacturer by the Division or any agreement
state pursuant to licensing requirements equivalent to those contained in
10
C.F.R. §
32.57 or §
70.39
of the regulations of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
5. The general licenses provided in
subsections 1, 2 and 3 are subject to the provisions of NAC
459.124 to
459.134,
inclusive, 459.198, 459.208, 459.312, 459.320 to 459.374, inclusive, and
459.780 to 459.794, inclusive. In addition, persons who own, receive, acquire,
possess, use or transfer one or more calibration or reference sources pursuant
to NAC
459.180 to
459.313, inclusive:
(a)
Shall not possess at any one time or at any one location of storage or use more
than 5 microcuries of americium-241, 5 microcuries of plutonium and 5
microcuries of radium-226 in those sources;
(b) Shall not receive, possess, use or
transfer such a source unless the source or its storage container bears a label
which includes the following statement or a substantially similar statement:
The receipt, possession, use and transfer of this source, Model
................, Serial No. ................, are subject to a general license
and the regulations of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission or of a state with
which the Commission has entered into an agreement for the exercise of
regulatory authority. Do not remove this label.
CAUTION -
RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL - THIS SOURCE CONTAINS (AMERICIUM-241) (PLUTONIUM)
(RADIUM-226). DO NOT TOUCH RADIOACTIVE PORTION OF THIS SOURCE.
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Name of manufacturer or importer
(c) Shall ensure that the label required by
paragraph (b) shows only the name of the appropriate material;
(d) Shall not transfer, abandon or dispose of
such source except by transfer to a person authorized by a license from the
Division, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission or an agreement state to receive
the source;
(e) Shall store such
source, except when the source is being used, in a closed container adequately
designed and constructed to contain americium-241, plutonium or radium-226
which might otherwise escape during storage; and
(f) Shall not use such source for any purpose
other than the calibration of radiation detectors or the standardization of
other sources.
6. These
general licenses do not authorize the manufacture of calibration or reference
sources containing americium-241, plutonium or radium-226.