Ohio Admin. Code 3701:1-46-33 - Luminous safety devices for use in aircraft: requirements for license to manufacture, assemble, repair or initially transfer
An application for a specific license to manufacture, assemble, repair or initially transfer luminous safety devices containing tritium or promethium-147 for use in aircraft, for distribution to persons generally licensed under rule 3701:1-46-07 of the Administrative Code, will be approved if:
(A) The applicant satisfies the general
requirements specified in rule
3701:1-40-15
of the Administrative Code;
(B)
The applicant submits sufficient information regarding each device pertinent to
evaluation of the potential radiation exposure, including:
(1) Chemical and physical form and maximum
quantity of tritium or promethium-147 in each device;
(2) Details of construction and
design;
(3) Details of the method of
binding or containing the tritium or promethium-147;
(4) Procedures for and results of prototype
testing to demonstrate that the tritium or promethium-147 will not be released
to the environment under the most severe conditions likely to be encountered in
normal use;
(5)
Any quality control procedures proposed as
alternatives to those prescribed by
Quality
assurance procedures to be followed that are sufficient to ensure compliance
with rule
3701:1-46-35
of the Administrative Code; and
(6)
Any additional information, including experimental studies and tests, required
by the director to facilitate a determination of the safety of the
device.
(C) Each device
will contain no more than three hundred seventy gigabecquerels (ten curies) of
tritium or 11.1 gigabecquerels (three hundred millicuries) of promethium-147.
The levels of radiation from each device containing promethium-147 will not
exceed five microgray ( 0.5 millirad) per hour at ten centimeters from any
surface when measured through fifty milligrams per square centimeter of
absorber.
(D) The director
determines that:
(1) The method of
incorporation and binding of the tritium or promethium-147 in the device is
such that the tritium or promethium-147 will not be released under the most
severe conditions which are likely to be encountered in normal use and handling
of the device;
(2) The tritium or
promethium-147 is incorporated or enclosed so as to preclude direct physical
contact by any person with it;
(3)
The device is so designed that it cannot easily be disassembled; and
(4)
The device
has
Prototypes of the device have been
subjected to and has
have satisfactorily passed the
prototype tests prescribed by rule
3701:1-46-45
of the Administrative Code.
(E)
The applicant
shall subject at least five prototypes of the device to tests as follows:
(1)
The devices are
subjected to tests that adequately take into account the individual, aggregate,
and cumulative effects of environmental conditions expected in service that
could adversely affect the effective containment of tritium or promethium-147,
such as temperature, moisture, absolute pressure, water immersion, vibration,
shock, and weathering.
(2)
The devices are inspected for evidence of physical
damage and for loss of tritium or promethium-147, after each stage of testing,
using methods of inspection adequate for determining compliance with the
criteria in paragraph (E)(3) of this rule.
(3)
Device designs
are rejected for which the following has been detected for any unit:
(a)
A leak resulting
in a loss of 0.1 per cent or more of the original amount of tritium or
promethium-147 from the device; or
(b)
Surface
contamination of tritium or promethium-147 on the device of more than two
thousand two hundred disintegrations per minute per one hundred square
centimeters of surface area; or
(c)
Any other
evidence of physical damage.
(F)
The device has
been registered in the sealed source and device
registry.
Notes
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 3748.04
Rule Amplifies: 3748.04
Prior Effective Dates: 10/20/2002, 01/20/2008, 11/08/2015
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 3748.04
Rule Amplifies: 3748.04
Prior Effective Dates: 10/20/2002, 01/20/08
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