[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 10, Volume 2]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 10CFR73.6]



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                            TITLE 10--ENERGY

 

          CHAPTER I--NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (CONTINUED)

 

PART 73_PHYSICAL PROTECTION OF PLANTS AND MATERIALS--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 73.6  Exemptions for certain quantities and kinds of special 

nuclear material.



    A licensee is exempt from the requirements of 10 CFR part 26 and 

Sec. Sec. 73.20, 73.25, 73.26, 73.27, 73.45, 73.46, 73.70 and 73.72 

with respect to the following special nuclear material:

    (a) Uranium-235 contained in uranium enriched to less than 20 

percent in the U-235 isotope:

    (b) Special nuclear material which is not readily separable from 

other radioactive material and which has a total external radiation dose 

rate in excess of 100 rems per hour at a distance of 3 feet from any 

accessible surface without intervening shielding; and

    (c) Special nuclear material in a quantity not exceeding 350 grams 

of uranium-235, uranium-233, plutonium, or a combination thereof, 

possessed in any analytical, research, quality control, metallurgical or 

electronic laboratory.

    (d) Special nuclear material that is being transported by the United 

States Department of Energy transport system.

    (e) Special nuclear material at non-power reactors.



Licensees subject to Sec. 73.60 are not exempted from Sec. Sec. 73.70 

and 73.72, and licensees subject to Sec. 73.67(e) are not exempted from 

Sec. 73.72 of this part.



[40 FR 52841, Nov. 13, 1975, as amended at 44 FR 68187, Nov. 28, 1979; 

58 FR 31471, June 3, 1993]