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SempraSafe:
EnergySolutionsRelated Links The Division of Waste Management and Radiation Control has requested EnergySolutions to update its performance assessment on its “SempraSafe” proposal before it can dispose of more than 40,000 cubic feet a year of this waste. The action is necessary because of new provisions to a rule the Radiation Control Board adopted earlier this…
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Radiation Basics
Related Links Radiation is one of the ways that energy travels through space or matter. Radiant energy is emitted as either electromagnetic waves or subatomic particles. This energy runs along a continuum on the electromagnetic spectrum on the basis of its wavelength, frequency, or energy. The two major types of radiation—non-ionizing and ionizing—are differentiated by…
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Potassium Iodide (KI)
What is it? Potassium Iodide is a salt, similar to sodium chloride (NaCI), normal table salt. KI is available in pill form or dissolved in water as a supersaturated potassium iodide (SSKI) solution. The pills contain a daily adult (children’s doses range from 16-65 mg depending on their size and age) dosage of 130 milligrams…
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Utah X-Ray Data: X-Ray Program
Related Links In the period 1994 to 1996 a survey of 94 x-ray units in medical facilities in Utah that perform C-Spine x-ray procedures was completed by the Division. The purpose of the survey was to evaluate exposure to a “Standard Man”. The figures below are the summaries of exposures obtained from this survey. If…
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Radioactive Materials Regulatory Program
Related Links The DWMRC regulates programs for licensing and inspecting byproduct material, source material, special nuclear material in quantities not sufficient to form a critical mass, and naturally occurring and accelerator produced radioactive materials. The DWMRC also administers a program to regulate the transport of radioactive materials in the State of Utah. Visit the Radioactive…
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Generator Site Access:
Waste Management and Radiation Control Permits and PermittingRelated Links The DWMRC administers the Generator Site Access Permit Program to regulate the access of low-level radioactive waste generators to the EnergySolutions land disposal facility. R313-26 of the Utah Code establishes the terms for a Generator Site Access Permit Program which authorizes waste generators, waste processors and waste collectors to deliver radioactive wastes to…
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Permit FAQs (Generator Site Access):
Waste Management and Radiation Control Permits and PermittingRelated Links Who is regulated by R313-26 and will need a permit to transport waste to the State of Utah for disposal? Anyone sending radioactive waste to EnergySolutions needs a permit to access the site for eventual disposal of waste. What materials transported for disposal are regulated by R313-26? All radioactive waste categories or types…
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Transportation FAQs (Generator Site Access):
Waste Management and Radiation Control Permits and PermittingRelated Links Since, September 9, 2001, Jule Fausto, Health Physicist, has conducted preliminary safety inspections at the Envirocare of Utah, low-level waste disposal facility. These FAQs are based on observations and findings to date. Jump to: Permit Requirements Do carriers or transporters of radioactive waste for disposal within the state of Utah have to obtain…
