ML20212D751

Requests Addl Info Re 830221 Application to Renew License 50-17838-01,including Experience of D Cook,Thyroid Probe, Film or TLD Badge Distribution,Source Custodian,Safe Opening of Packages & Fume Hood Face Velocities

ML20212D751
Person / Time
Site:	03013426
Issue date:	05/11/1983
From:	Riedlinger B NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION V)
To:	Zellmer P PROVIDENCE HOSP., ANCHORAGE, AK
Shared Package
ML20197E946	List: ML20212D508 ML20212D530 ML20212D594 ML20212D751
References
14015, NUDOCS 8608120564
Download: ML20212D751 (2)

See also: IR 05000178/2038001

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Docket No. 030-13426

Control No. 34015

Providence Hospital

Radiation Safety Office

Attn: Mr. Darwin Zellmer

Medical Physicist

3200 Providence Drive

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Anchorage, Alaska 99502

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Gentlemen:

This letter is in response to your application, dated February 21, 1983 to

renew your byproduct material license for your nuclear medicine program.

Addi,tional information is needed to support your application in the following j

areas:

1. If Dr. Cook was an authorized user on NRC License 35-16329-02 (for the

University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center) between the years of

1977-1979, an additional Form NRC-313M Supplement B should be completed

and signed by her preceptor to document the training and experience that

she received during that time interval.

Otherwise, in order to be considered acceptable, training and experience

must have been obtained within five years of the date of the application.

Since most of the information that Dr. Cook submitted does not meet this

criterion, she may need to obtain refresher training equivalent to that

specified in Appendix A, Sections 2.A., 2.B., and 2.C. (Appendix A is

enclosed).

Also, the preceptor statement shouJd specify the number of generator

elution and molybdenum-99 breakthrough tests that Dr. Cook has completed.

In order to authorize Dr. Cook for Group IV, we need documentation of an

additional patient treatment using colloidal P-32.

2. Please submit a description of the thyroid probe that will be used for

patient uptake studies and for personnel bioassays.

3. Please specify that the Radiation Safety Officer or his designee will

provide a film or TLD badge or a pocket dosimeter to each member of the

nursing staff who will care for patients being treated with therapeutic

sealed sources or radiopharmaceuticals.

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4. Please specify what room will be used for the operation of the

J. L. Shepherd Model 28-5 instrument calibrator. Also, specify the way

.. the area will be posted and restricted during the use of the calibrator.

5.

• It is not clear from your procedures that the Medical Physicist will be

, responsible for dispensing sealed sources. Please clarify. Also, your

procedures state that the Medical Physicist can designate someone to act

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as source custodian. Please specify those persons who could be

designated to fulfill the responsibilities of the source custodian in the

absence of the Medical Physicist.

6.

Item 14, par,e 17 of your application appears to exempt certain packages

containing licensed material from safe opening procedures. Please note

that there are no exemptions from safe opening procedures in

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1 10 CFR 20.205(d). Also, no " Radioactive Shipment Receipt Report" form

was submitted with your application (see page 10.8-34 of Regulatory

Guide 10.8). Please submit the form that you plan to use for this

purpose.

7. Item 11 of your application notes that radiation levels in unrestricted

areas are well below 2 millirem per hour. Please note that the limit of

100 millirems in any seven consecutive days as stated in 20.105(b)(2)

also applies to unrestricted areas. This limit is particularly of

interest

due to the when thereorisuse

storage a constant radiation

of licensed level in unrestricted areas

materials. In such cases, the

allowed dose rate would be approximately 0.6 millirem per hour.

8. Please specify the location and the face velocities of the fume hoods

where liquid forms of iodine will be opened.

We will continue the review of your application upon receipt of the requested

information. Please reply in duplicate, and reference Mail Control No. 14015.

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Health Physicist (Licensing)

Materials Radiation Protection

Inspection and Licensing Section

Enclosure:

Reg. Guide 10.8, Revision 1

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