Category: Radioactive Materials

  • Low Level Radioactive Waste: EnergySolutions

    Related Links The Low Level Radioactive Waste Program oversees the activities at the EnergySolutions facility. EnergySolutions is a Utah-based company that operates a commercial treatment, storage and disposal facility five miles south of the Clive exit on Interstate 80 in Tooele County and approximately 80 miles west of Salt Lake City. The facility itself is…

  • Blended Waste:
    EnergySolutions

    Related Links Introduction Blended waste is an industry proposal to blend more concentrated radioactive waste with less concentrated radioactive waste. EnergySolutions is seeking federal and state approval to allow this option so it can ultimately dispose of waste that meets the Class A limit requirements of its Utah radioactive material license. News On October 13,…

  • SempraSafe:
    EnergySolutions

    Related 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Generator Site Access:
    Waste Management and Radiation Control Permits and Permitting

    Related 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…

  • Permit FAQs (Generator Site Access):
    Waste Management and Radiation Control Permits and Permitting

    Related 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…

  • Transportation FAQs (Generator Site Access):
    Waste Management and Radiation Control Permits and Permitting

    Related 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…

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