United States Department of Transportation
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Conditioning and Interim Storage of Spent Radium Sources
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1996-06-01
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Abstract:This report is intended to provide technical information and recommendations on activities related to the management of spent radium sources, including preparation of sources at the user premises, conditioning and interim storage, together with an appropriate quality assurance program. Radium sources addressed in the present report are mainly those which have been used in medicine and for industrial applications, in the form of sealed radiation sources. Figure 1 presents the main steps for their management. Unsealed radium sources (e.g. consumer products containing luminescent paint) and material contaminated with radium are not considered specifically in this report. For some sources such as those designed to generate radon and neutron generating radium-beryllium sources with activities of 1 GBq (a few tens of milligrams) or higher, special precautions may be necessary before the conditioning methods described in this report are applied. The report does not deal with disposal. Conditioning techniques presented here are sufficiently flexible to permit further conditioning to be carried out if required before, for example, disposal.
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