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Submits Addl Info Re Application for SNM License,Formally License SNM-705,per 750213 Request.Neutron Source Used to Irradiate Personnel Dosimeters & Exposure Rig Located in Same Room as Neutron Source
ML20235G066
Person / Time
Site: 07001856
Issue date: 03/05/1975
From: Plato P
MICHIGAN, UNIV. OF, ANN ARBOR, MI
To: Dragonette K
NRC
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0494, 494, NUDOCS 8902230106
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Dear Ms. Dragonette:

Dr. G. Iloyt Whipple has ask me to reply to your letter to him of i

February 13, in which you requested udditional information concerning our application for a special nuclear material license, formally License No.

SNM 705.

Your letter shows thren areas for additional information:

1.

The neutron cource is used to irradiate personal dosimeters. An exposure rig is located in the same room as the neutron source. About twice a year, the neutron source is removed from it; storage container with remote handlers and placed on the exposure rig.

The student making the irradiation then i

leaves the room while the exposures are being made.

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Any student who uses the source is in the seccnd year of our Master of Science program in radiological health.

Such a student would have taken the f

following courses before using the neutron source:

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EIll 693 Radiation Physics 4 credits EIll 694 Radiation Dosimetry 4 credits EIII 695 Radiation Biology 4 credits l

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The student who uses the neutron source wears a film badge that is sensitive to neutrons. The dose rate 20 cm from the source is about 0.8 mrem l

per minute.

Since it takes only about 0.25 minutes to transfer the source 4

l from its storage container to the exposure rig and since the distance l

between the source and the student is about 75 cm during the transfer

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procedure, very little exposure is expected per transfer. About 10 transfers l

are requirca every six months.

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Only one key exists to room B-157.

This is normally kept with our secretary.

The student checks the key out and keeps it while the source is exposed.

In addition, a rope is stretched across the door with a sign attached which warns that a radiation source is out of its container.

I Please let me know if additional information is required concerning these or other points.

Sincerely, 8902230106 66,10 F

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