004.01
COMMON AND CONTRACT
CARRIERS. Common and contract carriers, freight forwarders, and
warehouse workers which are subject to the requirements of the DOT in 49 CFR
170 through 189 or the U.S. Postal Service in the Postal Service Domestic Mail
Manual, incorporated by reference, at
39
CFR 111.1 (1997) and set out as Attachment 1
of this chapter, are exempt from the requirements of this section to the extent
they transport or store radioactive material in the regular course of their
carriage for others or storage incident previously mentioned. Common and
contract carriers who are not subject to the requirements of the DOT or U.S.
Postal Service are subject to 180 NAC
13-003 and other applicable
requirements of these regulations.
004.02
PHYSICIANS.
Any physician licensed by the State of Nebraska to dispense drugs in the
practice of medicine is exempt from 180 NAC
13-003 with respect to transport by
the physician of radioactive material for use in the practice of medicine.
However, any physician operating under this exemption must be licensed under
180 NAC 7 or equivalent NRC or Agreement State regulations.
004.03
LOW-LEVEL
MATERIALS. Any licensee is exempt from the requirements of 180 NAC
13 with respect to shipment or carriage of the following low-level materials:
(A) Natural material and ores containing
naturally occurring radionuclides are either in their natural state, or have
only been processed for purposes other than for the extraction of the
radionuclides, and which are not intended to be processed for the use of these
radionuclides, provided the activity concentration of the material does not
exceed 10 times the values specified in Appendix 13-A, Table A-2 or Table
A-3;
(B) Materials for which the
activity concentration is not greater than the activity concentration values
specified in Appendix 13-A, Table A-2 or Table A-3 or for which the consignment
activity is not greater than the limit for an exempt consignment found in
Appendix 13-A, Table A-2 or Table A-3; and
(C) Non-radioactive solid objects with
radioactive substances present on any surfaces in quantities not in excess of
the levels cited in the definition of contamination in 180 NAC
13-002.
004.04
CLASSIFICATION AS FISSILE
MATERIAL. Fissile material meeting the requirements of at least
one of the items of 180 NAC 13-004.04(A) through (F) are exempt from
classification as fissile material and from the fissile material package
standards of
10 CFR
71.55 and
71.59,
but are subject to all other requirements of 180 NAC 13, except as listed
below:
(A) Individual package containing 2
grams or less fissile material;
(B)
Individual or bulk packaging containing 15 grams or less of fissile material
provided the package has at least 200 grams of solid nonfissile material for
every gram of fissile material. Lead, beryllium, graphite, and hydrogenous
material enriched in deuterium may be present in the package but must not be
included in determining the required mass for solid nonfissile
material;
(C) Packages containing:
(i) Low concentrations of solid fissile
material commingled with solid nonfissile material, provided that:
(1) There is at least 2000 grams of solid
nonfissile material for every gram of fissile material; and
(2) There is no more than 180 grams of
fissile material distributed within 360 kg of contiguous nonfissile material;
and
(ii) Lead,
beryllium, graphite, and hydrogenous material enriched in deuterium may be
present in the package but must not be included in determining the required
mass of solid nonfissile material;
(D) Uranium enriched in uranium-235 to a
maximum of 1% by weight, and with total Plutonium and uranium-233 content of up
to 1 % of the mass of uranium-235, provided that the mass of any beryllium,
graphite, and hydrogenous material enriched in deuterium constitutes less than
5% of the uranium mass, and that the fissile material is distributed
homogeneously and does not form a lattice arrangement within the
package;
(E) Liquid solutions of
uranyl nitrate enriched in uranium-235 to a maximum of 2% by mass, with a total
plutonium and uranium-233 content not exceeding 0.002% of the mass of uranium,
and with a minimum nitrogen to uranium atomic ratio (N/U) of 2. The material
must be contained in at least a DOT Type A package; and
(F) Packages containing, individually, a
total plutonium mass of not more than 1000 grams, of which not more than 20% by
mass may consist of plutonium-239, plutonium-241, or any combination of these
radionuclides.
