West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 64 - Health › Title 64 - LEGISLATIVE RULE WEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES › Series 64-23 - Radiological Health Rule › Section 64-23-14 - Transportation of Radioactive Material

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
14.1. Purpose and Scope. The rules in this
				Section establish requirements for packaging, preparation for shipment, and
				transportation of radioactive material and apply to any person who transports
				radioactive material or delivers radioactive material to a carrier for
				transport.
14.2. Definitions. As
				used in this Section, the following definitions apply:
14.2.a. Carrier - a person engaged in the
				transportation of passengers or property by land or water as a common,
				contract, or private carrier, or by civil aircraft.
14.2.b. Closed Transport Vehicle - a
				transport vehicle equipped with a securely attached exterior enclosure that
				during normal transportation restricts the access of unauthorized persons to
				the cargo space containing the radioactive material. The enclosure may be
				either temporary or permanent but shall limit access from top, sides, and ends.
				In the case of packaged materials, it may be of the "see-through"
				type.
14.2.c. Exclusive use - the
				sole use of a conveyance by a single consignor and for which all initial,
				intermediate, and final loading and unloading are carried out in accordance
				with the direction of the consignor or
				consignee.
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14.2.d. Fissile material - any special
				nuclear material consisting of or containing one or more fissile radionuclides.
				Fissile radionuclides are Plutonium-238, Plutonium-239, Plutonium-241,
				Uranium-233, and Uranium-235. Neither natural nor depleted uranium is fissile
				material.
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14.2.d.1. Fissile Class I: A package which
				may be transported in unlimited numbers and in any arrangement, and which
				requires no nuclear criticality safety controls during transportation. A
				transport index is not assigned for purposes of nuclear criticality safety but
				may be required because of external radiation levels.
14.2.d.2. Fissile Class II: A package which
				may be transported together with other packages in any arrangement but, for
				criticality control, in numbers which do not exceed an aggregate transport
				index of fifty (50). These shipments require no other nuclear criticality
				safety control during transportation. Individual packages may have a transport
				index not less than one-tenth (0.1) and not more than ten (10).
14.2.e. Low specific activity
				material - any of the following:
14.2.e.1.
				Uranium or thorium ores and physical or chemical concentrates of those
				ores;
14.2.e.2. Unirradiated
				natural or depleted uranium or unirradiated natural thorium;
14.2.e.3. Tritium oxide in aqueous solutions
				provided the concentration does not exceed five (5.0) millicuries (one hundred
				eighty five [185] MBq) per milliliter;
14.2.e.4. Material in which the radioactivity
				is essentially uniformly distributed and in which the estimated average
				concentration per gram of contents does not exceed:
14.2.e.4.A. One ten-thousandth (0.0001)
				millicurie (three and seven-tenths [3.7] kBq) of radionuclides for which the
				A2 quantity in Table 64-23 Ee is not more than five
				one-hundredths (0.05) curie (one and eighty five one-hundredths [1.85]
				GBq);
14.2.e.4.B. One
				five-thousandth (0.005) millicurie (one hundred eighty five [185] kBq) of
				radionuclides for which the A2 quantity in Table 64-23
				Ee is more than five one-hundredths (0.05) curie (one and eighty five
				one-thousandths [1.85] GBq) but not more than one (1) curie (thirty seven [37]
				GBq); or
14.2.e.4.C. Three-tenths
				(0.3) millicurie (eleven and one-tenth [11.1] MBq) of radionuclides for which
				the A2 quantity in Table 64-23 Ee is more than one (1)
				curie (thirty seven [37] GBq).
14.2.f. Objects of nonradioactive material
				externally contaminated with radioactive material, provided that the
				radioactive material is not readily dispersible, and the surface contamination,
				when averaged over an area of one (1) square meter, does not exceed one
				ten-thousandths (0.0001) millicurie per square centimeter (three and
				seven-tenths [3.7] kBq/cm2) of radionuclides for
				which the A2 quantity in Table 64-23 Ee not more than
				five one-hundredths (0.05) curie (one and eight five one-hundredths [1.85] GBq)
				or one one-thousandth (0.001) millicurie per square centimeter (thirty seven
				[37] kBq/cm2) for other radionuclides.
14.2.g. Normal Form Radioactive Material -
				radioactive material which has not been demonstrated to qualify as special form
				radioactive material.
14.2.h.
				Packaging - the assembly of components necessary to ensure compliance with the
				packaging requirements of this Section. It may consist of one or more
				receptacles, absorbent materials, spacing structures, thermal insulation,
				radiation shielding, and devices for cooling or absorbing mechanical shocks.
				The vehicle, tie-down system, and auxiliary equipment may be designated as part
				of the packaging.
14.2.i. Rules of
				the U.S. Department of Transportation - the rules in 49 CFR Parts
				100-189.
14.2.j. Specific Activity
				- of a radionuclide is the radioactivity of a radionuclide per unit mass of
				that nuclide. The specific activity of a material in which the radionuclide is
				essentially uniformly distributed is the radioactivity per unit mass of the
				material.
14.2.k. Transport Index -
				the dimensionless number, rounded up to the first decimal place, placed on the
				label of a package to designate the degree of control to be exercised by the
				carrier during transportation. The transport index is the number expressing the
				maximum radiation level in millirem per hour at one (1) meter from the external
				surface of the package.
14.2.l.
				Type A Quantity - a quantity of radioactive material, the aggregate
				radioactivity of which does not exceed A1 for special
				form radioactive material or A2 for normal form
				radioactive material, where A1 and
				A2 are given in Table 64-23 Ee or may be determined by
				procedures described in Table 64-23 Ee.
14.2.m. Type B Package - a Type B packaging
				together with its radioactive contents.
14.2.n. Type B Packaging - a packaging
				designed to retain the integrity of containment and shielding when subjected to
				the normal conditions of transport and hypothetical accident test conditions
				set forth in 10 CFR Part 71.
14.2.o. Type B Quantity - a quantity of
				radioactive material greater than a Type A quantity.