Radioactive materials packaging standards and regulations: Making sense of it all
Numerous regulations and standards, both national and international, apply to the packaging and transportation of radioactive material. These are legal and technical prerequisites to practically every action that a designer or user of a radioactive material transportation package will perform. The identity and applicability of these requirements and the bodies that formulate them are also not readily understood. This paper addresses the roles that various international bodies play in developing and implementing the various regulations and standards. It uses the US regulatory and standards-making bodies to illustrate how international requirements feed the domestic control of packaging and transport. It explains the scope and interactions between domestic and international regulatory and standards agencies and summarizes the status and major standards activities at the international level. The overview provided by this paper will be valuable to designers and users of radioactive material packages for better understanding and use of both standards and regulations, and for complying with regulatory requirements in the radioactive materials transportation field. 11 refs., 2 figs.
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2008-09-04
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Authors: | Pope, R.B. ; Rawl, R.R. |
Subject: | management of radioactive and non-radioactive wastes from nuclear facilities | nuclear fuel cycle and fuel materials | RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS | PACKAGING | REGULATIONS | COMPLIANCE | EVALUATION | TRANSPORT | MATERIALS |
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