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Accession Numbers for the applicable 

documents are: 

Document Date ADAMS 

Accession No. 

License Amendment Request ...................................................................................... June 15, 2009 ........................................... ML091680541. 

Response to First Request for Additional Information ................................................. February 18, 2010 .................................... ML100560175. 

Supplemental Information ............................................................................................ March 31, 2010 ......................................... ML100950449. 

Response to Second Request for Additional Information ............................................ September 1, 2010 ................................... ML102530139. 

License Amendment No. 1 Issuance Package ............................................................ September 14, 2010 ................................. ML102571628. 

Safety Evaluation Report ............................................................................................. September 14, 2010 ................................. ML102571637. 

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or if there are problems in accessing the 

documents located in ADAMS, contact 

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Reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301– 

415–4737, or by e-mail to pdr@nrc.gov. 

These documents may also be viewed 

electronically on the public computers 

located at NRC’s PDR, O1–F21, One 

White Flint North, 11555 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, MD 20852. The PDR 

reproduction contractor will copy 

documents, for a fee. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 21st day 

of September, 2010. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Eric Benner, 

Chief, Licensing Branch, Division of Spent 

Fuel Storage and Transportation, Office of 

Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards. 

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[NRC–2010–0209] 

Notice of Public Meeting To Solicit 

Comments on the Draft Policy 

Statement on the Protection of 

Cesium-137 Chloride Sources 

AGENCY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC). 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting to 

solicit public comments. 

SUMMARY: The NRC is conducting a 

public meeting to solicit public input on 

the draft policy statement on the 

protection of cesium-137 chloride (CsCl) 

sources that was published in the 

Federal Register on June 29, 2010 (75 

FR 37483). During the public meeting, 

the NRC will request public comments 

on the issues discussed in this 

document. Additionally, the NRC is 

requesting names of individuals to 

participate at the public meeting in a 

round table discussion of the issues 

discussed in Section III of this 

document. 

The purpose of this document is to 

announce the date and location of the 

public meeting which were not finalized 

in the June 29, 2010, document, as well 

as to publish an Issues Paper which will 

serve as a framework for the discussion 

of the major issues in the draft policy 

statement in the public meeting. 

DATES: 1. The public meeting will be 

held on November 8–9, 2010. 

2. Nominations for participation in 

the roundtable discussions of the public 

meeting should be submitted by October 

8, 2010. 

3. Written comments on the draft 

policy statement, outside the scope of 

the public meeting, are also accepted 

and should be submitted by December 

17, 2010. Comments received after this 

date will be considered if it is practical 

to do so, but the NRC is able to assure 

consideration only for comments 

received on or before this date. 

4. To ensure efficient and complete 

comment resolution, comments should 

include reference to the section and 

page numbers of the Draft Policy 

Statement (75 FR 37483) to which the 

comment applies. When commenting on 

the CsCl issues presented, please 

exercise caution with regard to sitespecific security-related information. 

Comments will be made available to the 

public in their entirety; personal 

information, such as your name, 

address, telephone number, e-mail 

address, etc. will not be removed from 

your submission. 

ADDRESSES: Please include Docket ID 

NRC–2010–0209 in the subject line of 

your comments. For instructions on 

submitting comments and accessing 

documents related to this action, see 

Section I, ‘‘Submitting Comments and 

Accessing Information’’ in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this document. You may submit 

comments by any one of the following 

methods. 

Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for documents filed under Docket ID 

NRC–2010–0209. Address questions 

about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher, 

telephone (301) 492–3668; e-mail 

Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. 

Mail comments to: Cindy Bladey, 

Chief, Rules, Announcements, and 

Directives Branch (RADB), Office of 

Administration, MS: TWB–5 B1M, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001, or by fax 

to RADB at (301) 492–3446. 

The public meeting will be held at 

The Universities at Shady Grove 

Conference Center, 9630 Gudelsky 

Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850–5822. 

Nominations for participation in the 

roundtable discussions of the public 

meeting should be submitted by October 

8, 2010. For expeditious handling of the 

nominations, the NRC established a 

dedicated e-mail address. The 

nominations should be sent to the 

following NRC e-mail address: 

CesiumDraftPolicy@nrc.gov. 

Other participants, who wish to 

attend the public meeting, may also preregister at the dedicated e-mail address: 

CesiumDraftPolicy@nrc.gov. The NRC 

will appreciate pre-registration in order 

to properly plan for the conference 

facilities; however, pre-registration is 

not required and registration will be 

available on the opening day of the 

public meeting. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

John P. Jankovich, Office of Federal and 

State Materials and Environmental 

Management Programs, telephone (301) 

415–7904, e-mail 

john.jankovich@nrc.gov, or Dr. Cynthia 

G. Jones, Office of Nuclear Security and 

Incident Response, telephone (301) 415– 

0298, e-mail cynthia.jones@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Submitting Comments and Accessing 

Information 

Comments submitted in writing or in 

electronic form will be posted on the 

NRC Web site and on the Federal 

rulemaking Web site http:// 

www.regulations.gov. To ensure 

efficient and complete comment 

resolution, comments should include 

reference to the section and page 

numbers of the Draft Policy Statement 

(75 FR 37483) and/or Issues Paper to 

which the comment applies. When 

commenting on the CsCl issues 


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1An IAEA Category 1 cesium-137 source contains 

a minimum of 3,000 Ci (100 TBq) and a Category 

2 source contains a minimum of 30 Ci (1 TBq). See 

http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/publications/PDF/ 

Code-2004_web.pdf. 

presented, please exercise caution with 

regard to site-specific security-related 

information. Because your comments 

will not be edited to remove any 

identifying or contact information, the 

NRC cautions you against including any 

information in your submission that you 

do not want to be publicly disclosed. 

The NRC requests that any party 

soliciting or aggregating comments 

received from other persons for 

submission to the NRC inform those 

persons that the NRC will not edit their 

comments to remove any identifying or 

contact information, and therefore, they 

should not include any information in 

their comments that they do not want 

publicly disclosed. 

You can access publicly available 

documents related to this document, 

including the following documents, 

using the following methods: 

NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR): 

The public may examine and have 

copied for a fee, publicly available 

documents at the NRC’s PDR, Room O– 

1F21, One White Flint North, 11555 

Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland. 

NRC’s Agencywide Documents Access 

and Management System (ADAMS): 

Publicly available documents created or 

received at the NRC are available 

electronically at the NRC’s Electronic 

Reading Room at http://www.nrc.gov/ 

reading-rm/adams.html. From this page, 

the public can gain entry into ADAMS, 

which provides text and image files of 

NRC’s public documents. If you do not 

have access to ADAMS or if there are 

problems in accessing the documents 

located in ADAMS, contact the NRC’s 

PDR reference staff at 1–800–397–4209 

or 301–415–4737, or by e-mail to 

PDR.Resource@nrc.gov. 

Federal Rulemaking Web Site: Public 

comments and supporting materials 

related to this document can be found 

at http://www.regulations.gov by 

searching on Docket ID NRC–2010– 

0209. 

The NRC will also use a public Web 

site, http://www.nrc.gov/materials/ 

miau/licensing.html#cc to make 

documents, relevant to the draft policy 

statement and to the public meeting, 

accessible. This public Web site will be 

continually updated as new information 

becomes available. 

II. Background 

The NRC is seeking public input on 

the major issues associated with its 

proposed policy and expectations on the 

secure uses of CsCl sources. As a first 

step, the NRC has prepared a draft 

policy statement, published June 29, 

2010 (75 FR 37483), to address issues 

related to the safety and security of the 

International Atomic Energy Agency 

(IAEA) Category 1 and 2 CsCl sources.1

The intent of this document is to foster 

discussion about the draft policy issues 

in the public meeting and to solicit 

comments on the draft policy statement. 

Following the publication of the draft 

policy statement, additional information 

became available on security of 

radioactive sources. The Energy Policy 

Act of 2005 (Pub. L.109–58) named 12 

Federal agencies and 2 State 

organizations to the interagency 

Radiation Source Protection and 

Security Task Force (Task Force) and 

named the NRC Chairman (or a 

designee) as its chairperson. The Task 

Force was charged with evaluating and 

providing recommendations to the 

President and Congress relating to the 

security of radiation sources in the 

United States from potential terrorist 

threats, including acts of sabotage, theft, 

or use of a radiological source in a 

radiological dispersal device. The first 

Task Force report was submitted in 

August 2006 (see http://www.nrc.gov/ 

reading-rm/doc-collections/congressdocs/correspondence/2006/president08-15-2006.pdf). On August 11, 2010, 

the NRC transmitted to the President 

and Congress with the second report 

documenting the efforts of the 

interagency Task Force. The second 

report included 11 recommendations to 

improve source security in the U.S. (see 

http://www.nrc.gov/security/byproduct/ 

2010-task-force-report.pdf). 

III. Issues Paper on the Draft Policy 

Statement on the Protection of Cesium137 Chloride Sources 

The objective of the public meeting is 

to solicit stakeholder comments on the 

policy issues that are presented in the 

draft policy statement. The following 

format is used in the presentation of the 

issues. Each issue is assigned a number, 

a description of the policy issue, a list 

of panel presentations with subjects for 

volunteers to address in short overviewtype presentations, and a list of 

questions for discussion by the general 

public. These issues, questions and 

factors are not meant to be a complete 

or final list, but are intended to initiate 

discussion. Interested stakeholders are 

welcome to recommend additions, 

deletions, or modifications to the key 

issues. The Commission will consider 

all public feedback when issuing the 

final policy statement. Meeting 

participants and commenters are 

encouraged to read the proceedings of 

the previous public meeting held in 

2008 and the written comments that the 

NRC received. The documents are 

available at http://www.nrc.gov/ 

materials/miau/licensing.html#cesium. 

Issues for Discussion 

Issue 1: The safety and security of risk 

significant sources is an essential part of 

the NRC’s mission. Licensees have the 

primary responsibility to securely 

manage and to protect sources in their 

possession from misuse, theft, and 

radiological sabotage. 

Panel presentations: 

• Outline of current security and 

control requirements. 

• Overview of security inspection 

findings by the NRC Regional offices. 

• Agreement State perspectives. 

Participant deliberations: 

• What is the status and history of the 

current security requirements and 

programs to reduce the potential 

vulnerability of IAEA Category 1 and 2 

sources? 

• What issues have licensees 

experienced when implementing the 

requirements? 

• What is the status of the NRC and 

Agreement State inspections designed to 

verify implementation of the 

requirements? 

Issue 2: Adequate protection of public 

health and safety is maintained if CsCl 

sources are managed in accordance with 

the security requirements of the NRC 

and the Agreement States. The NRC 

monitors the threat environment and 

maintains awareness of international 

and domestic security efforts. In the 

event that changes in the threat 

environment necessitate regulatory 

action, the NRC is ready to issue 

additional security requirements to 

apply appropriate limitations for the use 

of CsCl in its current form. 

Panel presentations: 

• Status of proposed 10 CFR Part 37 

rulemaking, Federal Register Notice, 

June 15, 2010. (75 FR 33902) 

• Licensees perspective of security 

requirements for CsCl sources. 

• An overview of NRC’s threat 

assessment process. 

• Overview of the Federal Bureau of 

Investigation (FBI) outreach efforts. 

Participant deliberations: 

• Is security of CsCl sources 

adequately addressed by the current 

requirements? 

• Should CsCl sources receive special 

consideration? 

• How would the proposed Part 37 

change the licensees’ current/existing 

security measures for CsCl? 

• How do the FBI outreach efforts 

affect the protection measures in place 

for CsCl sources? 

• If needed, what additional 

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to enhance security or minimize the 

risk? 

Issue 3: Could hardware 

improvements be made that would 

further mitigate or minimize the 

radiological consequences? 

Panel presentations: 

• Irradiator manufacturers’ 

presentation on safety features. 

• Overview of the Department of 

Energy (DOE)/National Nuclear Security 

Administration (NNSA) voluntary 

security enhancement program. 

• Licensee perspective of design 

changes. 

Participant deliberations: 

• What is the status of current CsCl 

designs regarding security 

enhancements? 

• What are the benefits of the DOE/ 

NNSA voluntary security enhancements 

and table-top exercises? 

• Are other isotopes being considered 

for the future production of existing 

designs? 

• Are new concepts being considered 

for new designs? 

Issue 4: The development and use of 

alternative forms of cesium-137, while 

not required for adequate protection, is 

prudent and the NRC intends to monitor 

these developments closely. 

Panel presentations: 

• Overview of feasible alternatives 

from the irradiator manufacturers’ 

perspective and from the users’ 

perspective. 

• Source manufacturers’ presentation 

on new initiatives. 

• Dispersibility considerations. 

Participant deliberations: 

• Are manufacturers currently 

considering the use of other forms of 

cesium (other than CsCl)? If yes, what 

alternatives are viable? 

• What is the status of new 

developments? 

• How can the effectiveness of new 

alternatives regarding solubility and 

dispersibility be measured? 

Æ What are the physical/chemical 

parameters? 

Æ How can risk reduction be 

quantified? 

• How to formalize solubility and 

dispersibility parameters? 

Issue 5: CsCl enables three specific 

classes of applications that benefit 

society: 

(a) Blood irradiation; 

(b) Bio-medical and industrial 

research; and 

(c) Calibration of instrumentation and 

dosimetry. 

Panel presentations: 

• Equipment needs of the blood 

irradiation industry. 

• Conduct of bio-medical research in 

view of cesium-137 irradiation. 

• Issues in calibration technology in 

view of cesium-137 sources. 

• Status of alternative technologies. 

Participant deliberations: 

• What impact does the Draft Policy 

Statement pose for each of these 

applications? 

• What is the licensees’ experience in 

complying with the current security 

requirements in view of the three fields 

of applications? 

• What technological changes are 

anticipated in these applications 

regarding the use of cesium-137 

sources? 

Issue 6: The NRC recognizes that 

currently there is no disposal capability 

for commercial CsCl sources. The NRC 

considers it imperative to develop a 

pathway for the long-term storage and 

disposal of these sources whether or not 

there are alternatives developed. 

Panel presentations: 

• Update from DOE on development 

of Environmental Impact Statement for 

a disposal facility. 

• Licensees’ perspective on storage 

and disposal of CsCl sources. 

• Disposal of CsCl sources through 

DOE’s Off-Site Recovery Program or 

Conference of Radiation Control 

Program Directors. 

Participant deliberations: 

• What are the major issues for 

licensees (users of CsCl sources) 

regarding disposal of their sources? 

• What options are available? 

• What are the (security and cost) 

impacts of the current regulatory 

environment on licensees? 

IV. Solicitation for Stakeholder Input 

To solicit stakeholder input during 

the public meeting, NRC will conduct a 

roundtable panel discussion, with 

opportunity for audience participation, 

for each issue contained in Section III of 

this document. The NRC is seeking the 

names of individuals interested in 

participating on these panels. 

Nominations by interested individuals 

or organizations should include the 

name of the proposed panel member, 

the issues they are interested in 

discussing, viewpoint(s) on the issue(s), 

and affiliation (if any). Roundtable 

panel participants will be selected with 

the goal of providing balanced 

viewpoints on each of the various 

issues. Please see the ADDRESSES section 

of this document to submit nominations 

by October 8, 2010. Nominations 

received after this date will be 

considered if it is practical to do so. 

We encourage previous participants 

who attended, either as panel members 

or attendees, the prior public workshop 

held on September 29–30, 2008, to also 

participate in this meeting. Information 

on the previous public meeting is 

accessible at http://www.nrc.gov/ 

materials/miau/licensing.html#cesium. 

Based on the comments received in 

both written and electronic form, and at 

the public meeting, the Commission 

will then be in a better position to 

proceed with the issuance of a final 

policy statement. The final policy 

statement, when issued by the 

Commission, will be published in the 

Federal Register. 

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 20th day 

of September 2010. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

John P. Jankovich, 

Team Leader, Office of Federal and State 

Materials and Environmental Management 

Programs. 

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