ENERGYSOLUTIONS CLEARED BY STATE TO ACCEPT SEALED SOURCES FOR ONE YEAR

Utah’s Division of Radiation Control late Friday issued approval for EnergySolutions to accept Class A sealed sources under a one-year license variance at the company’s Clive, Utah disposal facility. The variance will be enacted at the time of the first sealed source shipment. Under the terms of the variance, EnergySolutions will only be able to dispose of sealed sources up to 708,678 curies, or one percent of the calculated total source term limit of the disposal cell. UDRC also restricted EnergySolutions to sources with an isotopic half-life of Cs-137 or less, and to sources “recovered as part of a round-up coordinated by the Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors’ Source Collection and Threat Reduction program.”