Each licensee who transports, or delivers to a carrier for transport, in a single shipment, a quantity of irradiated reactor fuel weighing 100 grams (0.22 pounds) or less in net weight of irradiated fuel, exclusive of cladding or other structural or packaging material, which has a total external radiation level in excess of 1 Gray (100 rad) per hour at a distance of 1 meter (3.3 feet) from any accessible surface without intervening shielding, shall follow the physical protection requirements for category 1 quantities of radioactive material in subpart D of part 37 of this chapter.
[78 FR 17021, Mar. 19, 2013, as amended at 86 FR 43402, Aug. 9, 2021]
authority: Atomic Energy Act of 1954, secs. 53, 147, 149, 161, 161A, 170D, 170E, 170H, 170I, 223, 229, 234, 1701 (
42 U.S.C. 2073,
2167,
2169,
2201,
2201a,
2210d,
2210e,
2210h,
2210i,
2273,
2278a,
2282,
2297f; Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, secs. 201, 202 (
42 U.S.C. 5841,
5842; Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, secs. 135, 141 (
42 U.S.C. 10155,
10161;
44 U.S.C. 3504 note
source: 38 FR 35430, Dec. 28, 1973, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 10 CFR 73.35