La. Admin. Code tit. 33, § XV-1701 - Purpose and Scope
A.
This Chapter contains requirements for the issuance of a license authorizing
the use of sealed sources containing radioactive material in irradiators used
to irradiate objects or materials using gamma radiation . This Chapter also
contains radiation safety requirements for operating irradiators. The
requirements of this Chapter are in addition to other requirements of these
regulations. In particular, the provisions of LAC 33:XV.Chapters 1, 3, 4, and
10 apply to applications and licenses subject to this Chapter. Nothing in this
Chapter relieves the licensee from complying with other applicable federal,
state, and local regulations governing the siting, zoning, land use, and
building code requirements for industrial facilities.
B. The regulations in this Chapter apply to
panoramic irradiators that have either dry or wet storage of the radioactive
sealed sources and to underwater irradiators in which both the source and the
product being irradiated are under water. Irradiators whose dose rates exceed 5
grays (500 rads) per hour at one meter from the radioactive sealed sources in
air or in water, as applicable for the irradiator type, are covered by this
Chapter.
C. The regulations in this
Chapter do not apply to self-contained dry-source -storage irradiators in which
both the source and the area subject to irradiation are contained within a
device and are not accessible by personnel, medical radiology or teletherapy ,
radiography for the irradiation of materials for nondestructive testing
purposes, gauging, or open-field, agricultural, irradiations.
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