Fla. Admin. Code Ann. R. 64E-5.1405 - Performance Criteria for Sealed Sources
(1) The licensee shall assure that sealed
sources installed after August 14, 1996 meet the requirements of this section.
A prototype of the sealed source must be leak tested and found leak-free after
each of the following tests:
(a) Temperature.
The test source must be held at minus 40 degrees Celsius for 20 minutes, 600
degrees Celsius for 1 hour, and then be subjected to a thermal shock test with
a temperature drop from 600 degrees Celsius to 20 degrees Celsius within 15
seconds.
(b) Pressure. The test
source must be subjected twice to an external pressure of 290 pounds per square
inch absolute for at least 5 minutes.
(c) Impact. A 2 kilogram steel weight, 2.5
centimeters in diameter, must be dropped from a height of 1 meter onto the test
source.
(d) Vibration. The test
source must be subjected three times for 10 minutes each time to a range of
vibration from 25 Hertz to 500 Hertz at 5 times the acceleration of gravity for
30 minutes. Each test source must be vibrated for 30 minutes at each resonant
frequency found.
(e) Puncture. A 50
gram weight and pin, 0.3 centimeter pin diameter, must be dropped from a height
of 1 meter onto the test source.
(f) Bend. If the length of the source is more
than 15 times larger than the minimum cross-sectional dimension, the test
source must be subjected to a force of 2,000 newtons at its center equidistant
from two support cylinders. The distance between the support cylinders is 10
times the minimum cross-sectional dimension of the source.
(2) Sealed sources installed after 8-14-96
must be doubly encapsulated, the isotope or isotope and matrix contained within
the sealed sources must be as nondispersible and insoluble as practical or
rendered insoluble in water if the source is used in a wet-source-storage or
wet-source-change irradiator and must satisfy the requirements specified in
subsection
64E-5.210(14),
F.A.C.
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