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From time to time, Plexus-NSD sends information on important developments in the radiological field to our clients and colleagues.  Some of these mailings are in the form of an e-Newsletter.  A listing of the issue date and the headlines from the entire Plexus-NSD e-Newsletter collection appears below.  You can also view a recent edition (June, 2016). To receive future editions, simply subscribe using the form at the bottom of this page. There is no cost or obligation for a subscription, and your e-mail address will be used only to transmit the Plexus-NSD e-Newsletter.

October 26, 2016

  • New Source Material Rules for Illinois
  • Alpha Check Source Reminder
  • Is Nuclear Power Sustainable?
  • More from the Tidbits Collection
  • Radon Errata (Sorry Maryland!)
  • E-Newsletter Status Change

September 29, 2016

  • Another County Stomps Out Radon
  • DOT, USNRC and IAEA Not In Harmony?
  • NRDC Slams the NSTS
  • Interesting Tidbits

August 31, 2016

  • Unit Changes in the Wind?
  • World-Wide Safety Culture Guidance
  • USNRC Still Busy in August!
  • Texas with Egg on its Face
  • Health Physics Fashion

July 29, 2016

  • Regulators Setting Clean-up Schedules?
  • Deadly Cell Phones
  • USNRC Lightning Round

June 30, 2016

  • Plexus-IEM Merger News
  • Revised Distribution License Guidance
  • Initial vs. Subsequent Distributions
  • A Sad Day for Clean Energy Proponents!
  • Radiation Safety Training

May 31, 2016

  • Michigan Updates its Radiation Machine Rules
  • Transfer of Control/Ownership Complications
  • New Gamma Knife Licensing Guidance
  • DOT Training Webinar Coming Soon!

April 29, 2016

  • Radiographer Guidance Updated
  • Falsifying Package Certifications
  • Contaminated Scrap Incident/Backlash
  • A New Face at Plexus-NSD!

March 31, 2016

  • Safety Chill-Out
  • Cat 1 and 2 Rule Change
  • Regulatory Costs Redux
  • And Now on to Fairy Circles . . .

February 29, 2016

  • Impacts of a Radium-223 Standard Revision
  • Regulatory Costs Dropping in 2017?
  • Winter Lightning Round
  • Compliance Reminders

January 29, 2016

  • Happy New Year!
  • SSDR Guidance Revised
  • Civilian Use of HEU Still a Hot Topic
  • 2015 Enforcement Action Review

December 19, 2015

  • The HPS Comments on LNT
  • New Groundwater Guidance
  • Imports and Distribution Licenses

November 25, 2015

  • LLRW Kick in the Pants
  • Regulators Concerned about Patients

October 30, 2015

  • How to Change the Rules
  • The Fourth Element is Calling
  • Fall Lightning Round

September 30, 2015

  • Cost of a Rem Going Up?
  • Cost of Recordkeeping Going Up?
  • Timeliness Reminder
  • There’s a new Face at Plexus-NSD

August 31, 2015

  • Radioactivity, Security and Cyber Crime
  • Dose Reporting Guidance Under Revision
  • Hot Dice and Hotter Cards

July 30, 2015

  • International Shipping Consideration
  • Vermont Becoming Agreeable?
  • Radioactivity and Gambling?
  • End of an Era?

June 24, 2015

  • LNT About to Get the Boot?
  • Proof of Low Dose Effects?
  • Rogue Crop Circle Discovered

May 29, 2015

  • Waste Averaging and Encapsulation
  • Lions and Tigers and Cover-ups, Oh My!
  • Spring Lightning Round

April 30, 2015

  • The “Precautionary Principle”
  • Effluent Monitoring System Deficiencies

March 30, 2015

  • How to Average Waste Concentrations
  • Disposal Site Analysis Rules to Change
  • Whistleblowers, Safety Culture and Licensees

February 26, 2015

  • The Feds and the States Hold a Get-together
  • Are the States Becoming Internet-savvy?
  • Plexus-NSD Maryland is On the Move

January 30, 2015

  • TENORM and Pennsylvania
  • Are HP’s a Rare Breed?
  • Time for Another Lightning Round
  • Plexus-NSD is now a Plexus Company!

December 23, 2014

  • Licensing at Federal Installations
  • BEIR VIII in the Works?

November 26, 2014

  • Hello, Space Radiation!
  • New Ohio Oil and Gas Guidance
  • The Auditors are Coming!

October 30, 2014

  • Waste Disposal Pricing Resource
  • The Latest on 10 CFR 20 Revisions
  • Battle of the Bands: OSHA vs USNRC
  • Lightning Round

September 29, 2014

  • WV Soon to Require Landfill Portal Monitors
  • EPA Jettisons Dose and Sets New Cleanup Level
  • Free Georgia!
  • The CDC’s Position on Cell Phones

August 26, 2014

  • Legal Distributions Only From Now On!
  • A New Part 20? Been There, Done That!
  • Plexus-NSD Anniversaries of Note

July 28, 2014

  • New Shipping Rules
  • Radiation Protection Rules to be Harmonized?
  • Increased Controls Now in Effect in Ohio
  • Service Provider Guidance Changes

June 30, 2014

  • “Bright Light”ning Round
  • Are Crops Circling Again?

May 31, 2014

  • Individual Monitoring for External Dose
  • FCC Mandates Training
  • There’s a New Face in Town
  • My How Time Flies!

April 29, 2014

  • Regulatory Jurisdiction Questions
  • Has it Really Been 15 Years?

March 29, 2014

  • Regulator Fights Back
  • Seventeen Minutes of Fame
  • After-the-Fact Regulating

February 27, 2014

  • Protecting Proprietary Information
  • X-ray Systems and LNT
  • En-Lightning Round

January 30, 2014

  • License to Leak Test
  • Medical Procedure Caution
  • New and Improved Plexus-NSD Web Page

December 20, 2013

  • That’s Why They Call it Personal
  • Cabinet X-ray Systems and Dosimeters
  • Plexus-NSD Remains Certified

November 22, 2013

  • Ambiguity in License Requirements
  • Lightening Round
  • Coming Soon to a Device Near You

October 31, 2013

  • New Occupational Dose Guidance
  • OSHA Focused on Outdated Rules
  • Radiation Safety Month is Tomorrow!

September 27, 2013

  • Reporting Relief
  • Cancer Risk Study Moving Forward
  • Lightning Round

August 30, 2013

  • Georgia on my Mind
  • Broad-based Emergency Preparedness
  • Women work here?

July 31, 2013

  • Shipping Misunderstandings Redux
  • Speaking of Source Material . . .
  • Are “Curies” Old News Yet?
  • For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow!

June 5, 2013

  • Clean it Up Now!
  • The End is Near?
  • Source Material Rule Finalized

May 7, 2013

  • New Federal Guidance on Radiology Procedures
  • Timely Renewal of Radioactive Materials Licenses

April 13, 2013

  • Lock Up Your Risky Sources
  • Exempt Quantity Confusion
  • Plexus-NSD e-Newsletter Follow-ups

March 3, 2013

  • Shipping Neutron Instruments Gets Easier
  • Sealed Source Reminders
  • Fixed Radioactivity Measurement Reminder
  • The Latest on 10 CFR 20 Updates

December 20, 2012

  • Fixed Nuclear Gauges the Subject of an Audit
  • Industrial X-rays and Personnel Dosimeters
  • Performance Improvement Hint

November 30, 2012

  • DPR Compliance Inspections
  • Importing Sealed Sources as Waste
  • Crop Circle Madness

October 31, 2012

  • Heads up Again, Source Material Distributors!
  • Drilling-Related Waste Disposal
  • Registration of Generally Licensed Devices
  • A New Face at Plexus-NSD!

September 30, 2012

  • National Source Tracking in Full Swing
  • Hospitals as Terrorist Targets?
  • The HPS in Sacramento

August 29, 2012

  • Heads-up Source Material Distributors!
  • High-Priority Waste BTP Ready for Review
  • UFO’s and Nuclear Plants

July 31, 2012

  • Decommissioning Planning Guidance
  • Watchful Eyes on HDR-Afterloaders

June 29, 2012

  • A Teenager’s Perspective
  • Regulatory “Cheat Sheet” for Shippers
  • Radiographers? Not Again!
  • Cultural Expansion

May 29, 2012

  • Waste Processing Caution
  • Draft NAS Report Now Available
  • Water Treatment Plants Rejoice!
  • More Afoot on Significant Regulatory Change
  • Errata

April 27, 2012

  • Airborne Release Constraints
  • A Chance to Peek in on the IRPA
  • A Crack in the Sealed Source Disposal Door
  • Something New on the Plexus-NSD Web Site

March 30, 2012

  • OSHA Revises Standards
  • USNRC Revises Security Regulations
  • Generally-Licensed Device Petition Status
  • Alternate Disposal Clarification
  • ANSI/AIHA Z10 Under Revision

February 29, 2012

  • Update on Rubidium-82 Generators
  • Possession versus Distribution
  • Regulatory Report Card

January 31, 2012

  • Confused about Exempt Quantities?
  • Black Lung Disease and LNT
  • Regulatory Lightning Round

December 23, 2011

  • Decommissioning Planning During Operations
  • Multibadging; Peeking Behind the Curtain
  • Culture Club

November 30, 2011

  • Radiography Licensing Guidance to be Revised
  • Consumer Products Policy Evolution
  • Regulators Becoming Holistic

October 31, 2011

  • Federal Action Plan for Saving Lives
  • Unlicensed NARM?
  • Banana Equivalent Dose (BED)

September 30, 2011

  • General Licenses Getting Closer to a Change?
  • Michigan Becomes Disagreeable
  • Lightning Round

August 29, 2011

  • Rules of Engagement for General Licensing
  • Cosmic Rays and Biodiversity

July 29, 2011

  • Stop Order Issued to Certain Generator Users
  • Info Needed on Public Doses from Nuclear Medicine
  • Remedial Actions Soon to be Mandated?

June 30, 2011

  • Look it up in the Blue Book
  • Cultural Revolution
  • We Can All Say No to Legacy Sites
  • They Say Its your Birthday . . .

May 22, 2011

  • Medical Use Regulations Under Construction
  • More Help for Medical Licensees
  • Portable Gauge Users Could Get Off Easy
  • NORM in Ohio

April 29, 2011

  • Pop Quiz on Neutron Instrument Selection
  • Stealth Radioactivity
  • And the Answer is . . .

March 28, 2011

  • Trouble in Japan
  • The Cost of Regulating Goes Up Again
  • Enforcement Action Roundup
  • Plexus-NSD Getting Ready to Socialize

February 27, 2011

  • Releasing Nuclear Medicine Patients
  • My Kingdom for a Blog
  • An Plexus-NSD e-Newsletter Factoid
  • Radioactive Waste Blending and Classification

January 26, 2011

  • Guidance on Distributing Source Material
  • Is it Already Radon Month?
  • Cancer Risk Study Progresses
  • Crop Circles Making Headlines Again

December 21, 2010

  • One Giant Step for (Eliminating) Legacy Sites
  • Utilities not Responsible for Plane Crashes
  • Even More Info About the Plexus-NSD Web Page

November 30, 2010

  • There’s Still Time to Comment
  • Lessons Learned from Quality Mistakes
  • More Info About the Plexus-NSD Web Page

October 29, 2010

  • Source Material Rulemaking Already a Done Deal?
  • Can’t do the Time? Don’t do the Crime!
  • Licensee Fun Facts
  • Site Investigation Guidance Soon to Change
  • Keeping up with the Federal Register

September 29, 2010

  • Dueling RSOs Not Allowed Just Yet
  • The Heartbreak of a 10 CFR 35 Violation
  • Enforcement Action Lightning Round

August 31, 2010

  • Guidance for Managers and Supervisors
  • Checking Radiation Surveys Off the “To Do” List
  • Import and Export Rule Changes
  • Those Fun-Filled Drinking Water Standards

July 30, 2010

  • Distributors of U/Th-Bearing Products Beware!
  • More on Security Requirements for Commercial Carriers

June 30, 2010

  • More Rules Are a-Changin’
  • Are Your Service Providers Trustworthy?
  • More VA Hospital Woes

May 28, 2010

  • May 28, 2010 Event Notifications
  • >VA Hospital Aftermath and Trickle-down
  • Pandemic Planning

April 28, 2010

  • Just How Risky is Nuclear Power?
  • Disposal Guidance with Decommissioning Applicability?
  • Sealed Source Leak Testing
  • What’s Up with the USNRC

March 31, 2010

  • Procedures vs. “Effective” Procedures
  • Sealed Source Disposal Assistance
  • Plexus-NSD Presents a Paper on Expedited Decommissioning>
  • >More on Equipment Failure Reporting Requirements

February 26, 2010

  • Source Material Rulemaking Poised for Release
  • USNRC Belt-Tightening and Performance Reviews
  • Did You Notice that January was Radon Month?
  • Exit Signs Under More Fire
  • Interested in “Networking” with Regulators?

January 28, 2010

  • Timely Reporting is a Requirement; Not an Option
  • Updates on Global Threat Issues
  • Nuclear Medicine from an HP’s Point of View
  • A Fun (Radiological) Fact

December 21, 2009

  • Blended, Not Stirred!
  • Time to get Reconciled
  • No More Lurking in the Shadows?

November 30, 2009

  • Becoming Cultured . . .
  • OSHA Victorious in Court
  • Licensees Just Don’t Get Decommissioning?

October 30, 2009

  • Michigan Re-defining Itself
  • Did That Shutter Blink?
  • This Just In . . . Wal-Mart Receives NOV

September 29, 2009

  • Plexus-NSD’s Maryland Office is On the Move
  • More Source Material Licensees Waiting in the Wings?
  • USNRC Wants Your Thoughts on Waste

August 31, 2009

  • Generals Becoming Specific?
  • Radiographer Woes
  • Patients are Still Not Being Informed!

July 30, 2009

  • Regulatory Changes Redux
  • Jewelers As Licensees
  • Nuclear Events Becoming World Wide

June 30, 2009

  • NSTS is (almost) in Full Swing
  • Open the Door! Its the FBI!
  • Sometimes Smears Just Aren’t Enough

May 30, 2009

  • Shifting Shipments . . . Say That Five Times and Quickly!
  • New Jersey Becoming More Agreeable by the Minute
  • Instrument Calibration Services; Is a License Enough?
  • Rogue Lasers On the Loose

April 30, 2009

  • Should the USNRC Revise its Regulations?
  • What’s New in the World of Decommissioning
  • The Lightning Round

March 30, 2009

  • Finding Nuclear Gauge Sources
  • Source Material Licensing Steps out of the Shadows
  • A New Agreement State Welcomed to the Fold>

February 27, 2009

  • Sealed Source Security Missteps
  • USNRC Wants A New Rule
  • Is Specific Becoming the New General?
  • Break On Through to the Other Side
  • News from the States
  • Correcting Personnel Dosimetry Result

January 28, 2009

  • The Hunt for Exit Signs
  • Tracking the Illusive Radiation Source
  • Dose Assessment Without Dosimetry
  • Plexus-NSD Employee Elected to Office

December 30, 2008

  • Michigan Changing the Rules
  • Latest Imaging Guidance: Keep it Gentle
  • Once Again, Beware the Rogue HP!

November 25, 2008

  • Everything You Wanted to Know About Radium
  • More on Submitting Electronically
  • Yes Virginia, There May be Agreement!

October 28, 2008

  • The Door’s Shut; Now What?
  • New Jersey Intends to Agree
  • Security Responsibilities and Certain Hired Hands
  • Speaking of Purchased Services . . .

September 29, 2008

  • Getting Ready to Sell the Farm
  • Can’t do the Time? Don’t do the Crime!
  • Think You’re Prepared for a Final Status Survey?
  • Stocking up on Radiation Protection Supplies

August 29, 2008

  • NARM No Longer Waiver-ing
  • Shipping Radioactivity; The Plot Thickens!

July 28, 2008

  • Improved Security at No Extra Cost
  • Michigan’s Rules Becoming Agreeable
  • What’s New at the HPS
  • Shipping Radioactivity Takes More than a Box and a Stamp
  • Countertops in the News . . . Again

June 30, 2008

  • “Failure to Secure”
  • Michigan Starting to Feel Agreeable?
  • AIHce Talks the Talk

May 30, 2008

  • Barnwell Door (Essentially) Closed
  • Another State Approaching Agreement
  • More Guidance on Release of Patients after Therapy
  • New York on the Cutting Edge of Regulation Again?

April 28, 2008

  • Pennsylvania Becomes Agreeable
  • Rulemaking on Patient Release Dose Limits
  • Source Trackers Hot on your Tail?

March 26, 2008

  • There’ll be Some Changes Made
  • Stone Counter Tops are Lookin’ Mighty Suspicious!
  • The Latest in Radon Lung Cancer Risks

February 28, 2008

  • Rapid Changes in Sealed Source Security Requirements
  • NAS Makes Their Recommendations on Source Security
  • Everyone’s Talking but the Deadline Still Looms

January 30, 2008

  • Who is “Reference Man”?
  • The Latest on the CT Scan Uproar
  • Plexus-NSD Certified to the ISO 9001:2000 Standard
  • Plexus-NSD Welcomes Another New Employee

December 18, 2007

  • Dose Reporting Becoming Easier
  • Diagnostic Radiology Becoming Riskier?
  • Regulatory Input on Medical Event Reporting
  • Fingerprinting Source Custodians
  • . . . Tick, Tick, Tick . . .

November 27, 2007

  • Time keeps on tickin’ . . .
  • New Licensing Guide for ARM
  • Demand for Radiation Professionals Goes International
  • One Solution to Dwindling HP Pool?
  • Protective Equipment Free to Employees

October 30, 2007

  • Planing to Minimize?
  • Byproduct Material Expansion Rule Finalized
  • More Action on Generally Licensed Devices

September 28, 2007

  • Get to Work on your Situational Awareness
  • The Barnwell Clock is Still Ticking
  • You May be Smaller Thank you Think
  • Exit Signs Stirring Up More Trouble Again

July 31, 2007

  • A Funny Story? Not so much.
  • USDOE Revises its Radiation Protection Rules
  • Updates on a Couple of Decommissioning Issues
  • AIHA Roundtable Discussion for New RSOs

June 29, 2007

  • Disposal Deadline Looms; State Finds Empathy
  • A New Picture Book to Add to the Library
  • States Petition for More Radiographer Training
  • Modify Your Spam Filters!
  • Guidance on Electronic Submissions Now Available

May 31, 2007

  • States Lose their Grip on NARM
  • Draft NARM Licensing Guidance Offered to States
  • Scrappy Little Poster Now Available
  • Watch out for Counterfeit Fire Protection Equipment

April 30, 2007

  • USEPA Samples Up a Storm
  • Pennsylvania Just Might Agree . . .
  • >New NARM Regulation is Almost Here
  • Medical Radiation Doses Heightening Consciousness

March 30, 2007

  • ICRP Releases Draft Report on Interpreting Bioassays
  • OSHA Needs Your Help
  • Michigan is Starting to Feel Agreeable
  • Update on National Source Tracking Implementation

February 26, 2007

  • USNRC Ups its Rates Again
  • John Wayne and “The Conqueror”
  • Universal Radiation Symbol Becomes a Bit Scarier

January 31, 2006

  • MARSSIM’s Little Brother?
  • DOE Again Offers to Settle Claims
  • Not More Portable Gauge Violations!

December 22, 2006

  • Decommissioning Funding Changes in the Wind?
  • Time to List Your Medical Physicist on Your License
  • Trouble with Tritium . . . Again.
  • National Source Tracking System Up and Running

November 29, 2006

  • Sealed Source Round-up
  • Why We Need a Sealed Source Round-up!
  • Blind Trust in Service Providers?
  • Recent Instrument Rental Program Challenges

October 30, 2006

  • National Source Tracking System is Here to Stay
  • Abnormal Occurrence Criteria
  • A Lesson Learned from the DHS
  • Probability of Causation – A Cool Tool?

September 28, 2006

  • Standing By for the Latest Word from the ICRP
  • Danger, Danger, Will Robinson!
  • Source Security Report Heads to Congress
  • Legacy Site Prevention Procedures in the Wind
  • New Respirator Protection Factors Coming Soon

August 30, 2006

  • Atoms Win Their Freedom in New York
  • No More Stealth Decommissioning!
  • USDOE Procedural Rules May Be Amended
  • USNRC is Shopping for Antiques
  • HPS Challenges 10,000-year Crystal Balls
  • Just Because Its Radioactive Doesn’t Mean Its Rad Waste
  • Reliability of Historical Records

July 28, 2006

  • NORM/ARM Rulemaking Ready for Comment
  • Atoms Banned in New York
  • Suspicious Radioactive Material Transfers
  • Groundwater Contamination Alert
  • They’re Ba-a-a-ack . . . Crop Circles, That Is!

June 30, 2006

  • Decommissioning Funding Scrutinized
  • Changes in the Wind for Dose Tracking/Recording?
  • Verify Your Assumptions and Computer Programs
  • National Source Tracking System Could be Expanding
  • Plexus-NSD Celebrates a Birthday!

May 30, 2006

  • Regulators Need Money Too
  • Potential Changes to 10 CFR 35 in the Wind?
  • Verify Your HDR Treatment Assumptions
  • Plexus-NSD Web Page Getting Popular

April 28, 2006

  • NORM, NARM and Byproduct Material
  • New Form for Import and Export Reporting
  • Suffering From a Common X-ray Machine Weakness?
  • National Source Tracking System Audit
  • HPS Losing Patience with OSHA?

March 24, 2006

  • Does Your Density Gauge Just Seem Funny-looking?
  • Mandatory Use of SI Units Not That Explicit
  • Minnesota Becomes Agreeable
  • HPS Comments on Homeland Security Guides
  • A Little Light Reading
  • Plexus-NSD’s Tennessee Office Getting Crowded

February 28, 2006

  • Monitoring and Decontamination Tips
  • Fuzzy Rules of Engagement for Licensees
  • Don’t Forget That One Sievert is Equal to 100 Rem
  • A New Addition to Plexus-NSD’s Tennessee Office

January 30, 2006

  • USNRC Guidance on Concentration Averaging
  • Reciprocity is Not a Vacation From Compliance
  • States Ask for a Crack Down on Temporary Job Sites
  • Protect Your Communications from Terrorists
  • More on the USNRC’s NARM Rulemaking
  • Regulatory Changes on Products Containing Radioactivity
  • Update on New USDOE Safety Rules

December 22, 2005

  • If You Can’t Hear This, You’re Too Far Away
  • Record Keeping Regulatory Guide Revised
  • Surely You Didn’t Miss This Year’s Crop Circle Conference?

November 23, 2005

  • Minnesota Just About to “Agree”
  • HPS Says Waste Management Needs More Than a Face Lift
  • Problems with Criticality Alarms
  • Concerns over Sewage Sludge Cooling Off

October 22, 2004

  • Shooting at a Moving Regulatory Guidance Target
  • Availability of Another Epidemiology Study
  • New “Delay for Decay” Requirements
  • Can Laser Pointers Bring Down Aircraft?

September 28, 2005

  • The Steep Slope of Diagnostic X-ray Trends
  • Sealed Source Accountability Getting More Attention
  • More Time to Comment on OSHA Regulations
  • Federal Regulation of NARM “On Hold” For Now
  • Higher Dose Limits for Patient Caregivers

August 19, 2005

  • Come by the Open House at Plexus-NSD’s New Office!
  • Someone at the USNRC Giving You Grief?
  • Dose Projections over Billions and Billions of Years
  • Radium Falls Under USNRC Jurisdiction

July 28, 2005

  • Follow-up to Last Month’s NAS Radiation Risk Issue
  • Errata on the Arkansas Rule Revision
  • Interesting Information from the HPS
  • National Source Tracking System Being Proposed
  • NORM and NARM Emerging from the Shadows?
  • Pennsylvania Looking for a Few Good HPs

June 29, 2005

  • Recycle/Re-Use Opportunities and Quagmires
  • Arkansas Revises its Rules
  • New Dirty Bomb Protection Proposed
  • Plexus-NSD Welcomes a New Employee
  • Nuclear Services Division News
  • Stop the Presses! NAS Buys Off on LNT!

May 27, 2005

  • New Guidance on Occupational Dose Monitoring
  • More on USNRC Specialty Board Certifications
  • New Jersey Revises Radiation Protection Rules
  • Funding Plan Reminder
  • An Irradiator Safety Matter

April 26, 2005

  • Specialty Board Certifications Acknowledged by USNRC
  • Assuring Radiation Protection for 10,000 years?
  • Busted Gauge? Don’t Forget to Report!
  • Coral Age-Dating and Uranium Prospecting

March 28, 2005

  • Another Run at External Regulation of the USDOE
  • USNRC Decommissioning Program Update
  • What We Have Here is a Failure To Communicate!

February 23, 2005

  • USDOE Reissues Worker Health and Safety Rule
  • When is a General License Not a General License?
  • Licensing Fees for FY 2005
  • New Report on Carcinogens Now Available
  • News from Texas on Disposal of NORM

January 25, 2005

  • Clearing Up More Murky Transportation Waters
  • New Jersey Stomping Out Radon
  • Webcast on Radiological Terrorism Response
  • New Security Requirements for Portable Gauges
  • A Nuclear Stress Test Story – And This Time its Personal

December 21, 2004

  • USNRC Announces “Rad Toolbox” Availability
  • Do the New DOT Regulations Affect Your Procedures?
  • New “Decay-in-storage” Policy Hits the Streets
  • Get Reimbursed from the USDOE
  • Focused Decommissioning Successes

November 22, 2004

  • Tougher Exports and Imports
  • Food Irradiation . . . Two Points of View
  • Regulatory “Gossip”
  • Enforcement Leniency for General Licensees

October 27, 2004

  • Has Dilution Become the Solution?
  • If You Can’t Pay the Fine, Don’t do the Crime
  • Know your Authorized Users
  • HPS Updates its Position on Risk

September 28, 2004

  • Radiation Exposures from Petroleum Pipe Cleaning
  • Are Gauge Violations On the Rise Again?
  • ICRP Modifying its GI Series Model
  • Managing Water Treatment Residuals

August 27, 2004

  • Generally Licensed Device Rule Changes and Agreement States
  • Physicians: Make Life Easier on your Patients
  • Security Requirements for Portable Gauges
  • Utah Now Regulates 11e.(2) Byproduct Material
  • An MOU from the ISCMEM
  • What? Not More Crop Circle News!

July 27, 2004

  • Cautions in the Use of X-Ray Screening Devices
  • Radiation Victim Obituary
  • OSHA Extends Comment Period on Rulemaking
  • ODH Also Proposing Some New Rules

June 21, 2004

  • What? No More SDMP Sites?
  • Thinking About Discontinuing Personnel Dosimetry?
  • Plexus-NSD’s Routine Compliance Program is a Hit!

May 28, 2004

  • No Radioactive Waste Crisis (At Least for Now)
  • “Exempt Quantities” are Only Exempt Down South
  • The Latest In “Crop Circle” News . . .

April 26, 2004

  • USNRC Implements Decommissioning MOU with USEPA
  • Get-cher CT Scans Here!
  • Public Employees and their Survey Instruments
  • Something New Has Been Added to the Plexus-NSD Web Site
  • A Couple of Plexus-NSD Announcements

March 29, 2004

  • Non-Compliance at its Best (or Worst!)
  • Emergency Planning
  • Emergency Shipping Contacts

February 27, 2004

  • Is Utah Becoming Even More Agreeable?
  • Remembering TMI
  • Review Your Posting/Labeling Practices
  • Dirty Bomb Response Addressed by the HPS

January 23, 2004

  • Tolerable Radioactivity in Food
  • The Inside Line on Standardizing Regulations
  • Feds Getting Anxious to Reimburse Clean-up Claims
  • Capable of Funding Your Own Decommissioning?

December 21, 2003

  • New Sewer Discharge Guidance Becomes Available
  • Good and Bad News for Generally-Licensed Device Registrations
  • Follow-up to the Mt. Olive Welding Rod Event
  • No “Just Desserts” for an Abandoned Radioactive Box?
  • Holiday Safety Tips

November 20, 2003

  • Welding Rods and Garbage Trucks
  • How Risky is Thorium? Really?
  • USEPA Offers Their Own Waste Disposal Solutions

October 24, 2003

  • Thinking of Decommissioning? Now Might be the Time!
  • Crackdown on Cargo Shipments
  • New Detector Standards are in the Works
  • Have Safeguards Fallen Out of Balance?

September 15, 2003

  • Regions I and II Getting it Together
  • HPS Revises Position Statement
  • More on External Dose Weighting Factors
  • New Guidance on NEPA Implementation
  • Go Ahead and Trash Your Copy of NUREG-1727
  • Remembering 9-11

August 27, 2003

  • Device Distributors: Get Your Reports in Order!
  • More Security for Portable Gauges
  • Hot Flashes and Criticality Monitors
  • Brachytherapy Positioning Errors
  • Plexus-NSD Lectures at Plum Brook
  • “The Perfect Inspection”

July 31, 2003

  • Health Physics Society meets in San Diego
  • Homeland Security/Emergency Response in the Forefront
  • The Whole Body CT Screening Controversy
  • Laser Safety Concerns Heightened
  • Advice on Decommissioning from the USNRC
  • Wisconsin Agrees!
  • Plexus-NSD Welcomes Another New Employee

June 28, 2003

  • LTR Analysis: The Good, the Bad and the Frightening
  • Increased Licensing Fees Become a Fact
  • Heightened Safety and Security for Sealed Sources
  • Extremity Doses for P.E.T. Technicians and Physicians
  • Plexus-NSD Welcomes a New Employee

May 29, 2003

  • USNRC Offers Radiation Protection Guidance
  • Complacency in Routine Surveillance Programs?
  • License Fee Increases Trickle Down
  • Is Compassion An Excuse When it Comes to the Law?

April 22, 2003

  • A Revolution in Bioassays for Alpha Emitters?
  • Of Course My Check Sources Don’t Leak!
  • When a Loaf of Bread Cost a Nickle and License Fees . .
  • Wisconsin Soon to Join the Ranks of Agreement States

March 24, 2003

  • The Real Price of Sloppy Analytical Services
  • A New Waste Classification System
  • Ultrasound Exposure Criteria
  • Spam and the Plexus-NSD e-Newsletter

February 21, 2003

  • Decommissioning News From the State of Ohio
  • Regulatory Relief for Non-Uniform External Exposures>
  • Discharge of NORM-bearing Water Into Sewers Prohibited?
  • An RSO is a “Must Have” Item!
  • Another Source of the USNRC’s HP Position Papers

January 16, 2003

  • NCRP Position on Scrap Metal is Here!
  • Utah Low-level Waste Initiative Fails
  • Gamma Spectroscopy as an Art Form
  • Its That Time Again . . . Form 5’s are Due
  • Don’t Forget Your Annual Program Audit

December 20, 2002

  • UV and Thorium: Do They Have Something in Common?
  • Proof of Radioactivity Everywhere!
  • Regulating and Managing Low-Level Waste

November 25, 2002

  • Waste Processing – Your Worst Nightmare
  • Lawsuit Against USEPA Gets Interesting!
  • Errata on the USNRC/USEPA MOU
  • Good News from the USNRC on Materials Clearance
  • Radioactivity No Longer Linked to Crop Circles?

October 23, 2002

  • USNRC Needs More Decommissioning Funds
  • A Brief “Rogue Consultant” Reminder . . .
  • A Bleak Picture for Device Registrations
  • The Long-Awaited Decommissioning MOU is Here!
  • Mixed and Radioactive Waste Relief?

September 23, 2002

  • When Does “Exempt” Not Really Mean Exempt?
  • Disposal Costs – Rising in Utah?
  • Disposal Costs – REALLY Rising in California!
  • NESHAPs Amendment Becomes Effective Soon
  • Ohio Governor Appoints Plexus-NSD Staff Member

August 24, 2002

  • Pennsylvania Licensees Must Use Registered Labs
  • Uranium Miners May Soon Be Compensated
  • Transporting Radioactivity on Short Trips
  • Refractory Brick; Too “Radioactive” to Throw Away

July 22, 2002

  • Inventory Control Gaining Even More Attention
  • Wisconsin Makes it Official
  • New Jersey Starts Certifying Laboratories
  • Unauthorized Medical Administrations

June 23, 2002

  • USNRC White Paper on Decommissioning
  • The States are Coming, and the States are Going
  • Time for Some Combination Training?
  • Fix Up Your Damaged Copy of FGR-13
  • Another USNRC Fee Amendment

May 25, 2002

  • Disposing of Unimportant Quantities of Source Material
  • Calibration Services; Be Careful Where you Get ‘em!
  • Waste Disposal Regulations Rejected by the Courts
  • Medical Mis-administrations Remain a Concern

April 26, 2002

  • Getting in Line for your CT Screening?
  • Decommissioning Update
  • Regulatory Issue Summary on Dose Assessment
  • Release Criteria for Solids (Sigh!)

March 22, 2002

  • Sense and Sensibility in New Regulation Plans
  • New “Hot Particle” Skin Dose Limits
  • Free Density Gauges to a Good Home
  • Is your License About to Expire?
  • Plexus-NSD Staff Member Appointed to Important Ohio Committees
  • PA Waste Processors/Recyclers Expecting a Visit?

February 25, 2002

  • Cell Phone Safety; Talk is Cheap!
  • Plexus-NSD’s Main Office Moves to New Digs
  • Welcome to the Higher Cost of Uranium Storage in Ohio
  • Not Another Medical Mis-Administration!
  • Initial Installment of Decommissioning Guidance Arrives
  • “Hot Particles” Re-emerge as a Hot Topic
  • Barnwell Space Information Now Available

January 22, 2002

  • Package Documentation is Not Just for High Activities
  • Trouble with Registering Generally-licensed Devices
  • Wisconsin About to Become an Agreement State?
  • Not on Oprah’s List, but a Good Read Nonetheless
  • Uncle Sam Wants to Give You Some Money . . . Maybe
  • CRCPD Begins to Focus on Decommissioning

December 19, 2001

  • USDOE Metal Recycling Resurrected?
  • And Speaking of Releasing Stuff . . .
  • New UN Publication on Hereditary Effects
  • More Emergency Preparedness Documents Issued
  • More Risk Information from the USEPA
  • Non-ionizing Radiation Rule Changes are Possible
  • Oh No! Radioactivity and Crop Circles?
  • Action Items for Regulators

November 20, 2001

  • Greater Attention Needed for CT Scans
  • Texas Disposal Site Obtains an Important Exemption
  • Timely Issue of a New NRCP Report
  • Is the NRC Still Pondering the NORM Issue?
  • Plexus-NSD Decommissioning Booklet Already a “Hit”

October 26, 2001

  • Probability of Causation for Radiation Injury Legalized?
  • Oh No! Not Another Lost Source!
  • Pennsylvania is Getting Closer to Agreement State Status
  • Is it Time to Renew Your License?
  • New Additions to the Plexus-NSD Web Page

September 24, 2001

  • Tragedy in the U.S.
  • Sometimes the Parts aren’t Greater Than the Whole
  • New Procedures for Compensating Injured Employees
  • HPS Position Statement on Personnel Shortages
  • External Exposures from Non-uniform Fields
  • In Case You’re Still Following the Raising of the Kursk

August 31, 2001 (Supplement)

  • Its Here! . . . MARLAP Finally Hits the Streets

August 29, 2001

  • Setting Exposure Standards
  • Have You Reserved Your Barnwell Space?
  • Don’t Forget Uranium and Thorium in your Source Control Program
  • NCRP Report on X-Ray Shielding Out for Comment
  • Draft Toxicological Profiles for Americium, Cesium and Strontium
  • Plexus-NSD Welcomes a New Employee
  • Credit Cards Accepted

July 24, 2001

  • Instructing Juries and Instructing Workers . . . Similar?
  • Skin Dose Regulations Change
  • New EIS on Scrap Metal Disposition Starts Up
  • Keep Track of your Radiation Sources . . . Redux
  • The Consequence of a Lost Source
  • If You’ve Been Following the Kursk Recovery . . .

June 20, 2001

  • Shipping Error Results in a Fine
  • NVLAP Procedure Change . . . What Does it All Mean?
  • Do You Trust What Your Computer is Telling you?
  • Oh the Fees, They are a-Changin’
  • USEPA Formalizes its Radiation Protection Standards
  • Plexus-NSD Working with the IAEA
  • Plexus-NSD’s Maryland Office is “On the Move” . . . literally

April 20, 2001

  • How to Handle Unexpected Contamination Events
  • Just When you Thought You Understood the Difference Between USNRC and Agreement State Responsibilities . . .
  • Radiation Safety Training – Required or Not?
  • The Ground Rules are Changing at USNRC Hearings
  • More “Happenings” on the Cell Phone Safety Front
  • New Web Page Additions
  • Inventory . . . Inventory . . . Inventory!

March 20, 2001

  • Spring Cleaning and Refractory Brick
  • Yes, Titanium Ores Contain Radioactivity!
  • The Trials of Decommissioning Funding
  • A Lesson in Quality Assurance
  • The USNRC Agrees; You’d Better Do What You Say!
  • Mixed Oxide Fuel Making a Comeback?

February 26, 2001

  • It’s Form-5 Time Again!
  • And Speaking of Bioassays . . .
  • EPA Issues Soil Screening Guidance
  • Latest Activities from ISCORS
  • Grant Programs for States with Formerly-Licensed Sites
  • Simply Complying with a Regulation is No Longer Enough
  • Something New in the Plexus-NSD Web Page

January 19, 2001

  • Such a Big Deal for Such a Short Half-life!
  • More on Compensating Radiation Workers
  • USDOE Offers Even More Reimbursement
  • No Excuse for Slippery Radioactive Materials

December 20, 2000

  • Rad Workers to Receive Financial Compensation
  • A General License Ain’t So General Any More!
  • Human Subject Research Demands Attention
  • USNRC to Increase its Regulatory Authority?
  • State Weighs in on Financial Assurance
  • What a Year it has Been!

December 7, 2000 (Supplement)

  • USEPA Finalizes Drinking Water Regulations

November 21, 2000

  • Increased Tracking of Generally-Licensed Devices
  • Computer Codes Updated
  • HPS Takes Another Position . . . Against the USEPA
  • New Regulatory Issues Summaries
  • National Academy Weighs in Again on Dose Rate Effects
  • The Latest on the Release of Solids for Unrestricted Use
  • New X-ray Guidance Hits the Streets

October 19, 2000

  • Ground Rules for Surveys Have Changed
  • Meanwhile, the USEPA Has Also Been Busy
  • USNRC Discontinues Authority in Oklahoma
  • USNRC Information Notices Worthy of Mention
  • University NOV Offers Valuable Lessons
  • Compensating Nuclear Workers Could Impact Others
  • Plagued with Regulatory Delays? Don’t Feel So Bad!

September 22, 2000 (Supplement)

  • Communicating Radiological Information (“Unknowns Nag After Fires at Atomic Site”)

September 20, 2000

  • Risk-informed Regulating Being Explored
  • USEPA Provides New Training Resources
  • Communicating Radiological Information
  • Mixed Waste Processing Alternatives
  • Pennsylvania Getting Closer to an Agreement with USNRC
  • News from the National Academy of Sciences
  • Health Physics Society Goes on Record
  • Cautions on Alpha Surveys by Direct Measurement

August 28, 2000 (Supplement)

  • New Source Material Regulations?

August 17, 2000

  • More Licensing Guidance from the USNRC
  • Disposal Difficulties in the Absence of Release Limits
  • More from the USEPA on Remediation Goals
  • Breakdown in Contamination Control
  • Web Site Broadcasts Recycling Woes
  • Medical Exposures for Occupational Workers

July 19, 2000 (Supplement)

  • Proposed Changes in Transportation Regulations

July 19, 2000

  • Are You Still Using All of your Restricted Areas?
  • Agency Disagreement on “Safe Dose” Heats Up
  • DOE Slams the Recycling Door
  • International Uranium Seeks License Expansion
  • Access to Public Documents Gets a Bit Easier
  • Guidance on Sewage Sludge Activity Revise
  • Changes in Transportation Regulations Coming Up
  • New Additions to the Plexus-NSD Web Page

June 16, 2000

  • Oklahoma Seeking Agreement State Status
  • More Clean-up Criteria Info
  • Changes to Ohio’s Rules
  • New Epidemiological Studies Worthy of Note
  • Kerala Villagers Scrutinized
  • GTS Duratek Acquires Chem-Nuclear Systems
  • USEPA Issues General Duty Clause Guidance
  • Proposed New Disposal Facility for 11e.(2) Material

May 17, 2000

  • Recycling . . . Redux!
  • Extremity Exposures Under Investigation
  • ISCORS Has a Web Site
  • USEPA Issues Groundwater Handbook
  • Semi-annual Regulatory Agenda is Here
  • USEPA Issues Revised Drinking Water Standards
  • Louisiana Bows Out of Inspection Role
  • A Follow-on to Reporting Ownership Changes

April 21, 2000 (Supplement)

  • USEPA Proposes New Drinking Water Regulations

April 20, 2000

  • More Insights into the Release Criteria Problem
  • USEPA Offers Some Handy Guidance Documents
  • A Reminder to Report Ownership Changes
  • USEPA Developing Acute Exposure Guidelines
  • Special Inspections for SCBA Cylinders
  • Health Implications of Skin Doses
  • Ohio Announces Fee Changes
  • USNRC Takes Notice of Medical Misadministrations

March 23, 2000

  • MARLAP Hits the Streets . . . almost
  • USNRC Issues (draft) Strategic Plan
  • More Bad Publicity for Medical Licensees
  • DOT Extends Registration Requirements
  • You Just Thought you Terminated Your License
  • How Are You Doing on Those Form-5s?
  • Cherry Blossoms and Source Material
  • New Items Appear in the Plexus-NSD Web Page

February 18, 2000

  • Courts Prohibit Local Efforts to Restrict Discharges
  • USNRC Takes the Lead in Establishing Release Limits
  • New Jersey Kicks Off Agreement State Process
  • Another Assault by Contamination!
  • Medical Programs are Back in the USNRC’s Sights
  • Sunspots and Flight Crews
  • DOE Health Claim Response Could Explode

January 21, 2000

  • Dual-Agency MOU on Sealed Sources
  • Exempted Materials and Items Addressed
  • USDOE Offers to Pay UP
  • More Changes Coming in Transportation Regulations
  • RADDECAY Available for Free (and without a Y2K bug!)
  • Barnwell Availability Again in Question
  • USDOE Backs Down from a Good Plan
  • The Rest of the Radiation Poisoning Story

December 22, 1999

  • Mississippi Authorizes Landspreading of NORM
  • How Do You Spell (Regulatory) Relief?
  • Final Toxicological Profiles Issued
  • They’re Here! . . . Screening Values for Soils
  • Federal Agencies Ponder Radioactivity in Sewers
  • Semi-annual Agenda Available for Review
  • Mixed Waste Rules Proposed

November 17, 1999

  • EPA Seeks to Regulate Radon in Water
  • Everyone’s a Loser . . . More to the Radiography Saga
  • Utility Fined for Safety-related Discrimination

October 18, 1999

  • Respirator Usage is Back in the News
  • Employee Participation is the Key to Compliance
  • Self-Audits Become Less Risky
  • Plexus-NSD Offers New Combination Training Courses

September 22, 1999

  • Ohio is Officially an Agreement State
  • Risk-based Review of Byproduct Material Licenses
  • New Version of Form-3 Hits the Streets
  • Important Meeting on Materials Clearance
  • Make Way for the New “Exposure Factors Handbook”
  • New Guidance on Prenatal Exposure Assessments

August 23, 1999

  • Generally-Licensed Radioactivity Becomes Complicated
  • Looking for Information on Radioactivity in Water?
  • More on the USNRC’s Decommissioning Rule
  • When is a Waste Not a Waste?
  • “Gloves Off” at the FDA!

July 17, 1999

  • Getting Rid of Mildly-contaminated Solids
  • Emission Guidelines for Incinerators
  • A Revised Regulatory Guide

June 15, 1999

  • Ohio Agreement State Status Draws Near
  • Landfill Regulatory Woes
  • Another Fee Change

May 15, 1999

  • NRC Grants Important Source Material Exemption
  • No More Bundling of Exempt Quantities

April 15, 1999

  • Changes to Laser Product Performance Standards
  • NRC Takes a Stand on D&D and Recycling

March 18, 1999

  • Yet Another Poisoning Case
  • Plexus-NSD Goes Electronic

February 19, 1999

  • New Guidance from the DOT
  • Waste Disposal Rumors
  • NRC Withdraws Regulatory Guides

January 18, 1999

  • New Sealed Source Regulation One Step Closer
  • CRCPD Finalizes NORM Regulations

December 21, 1998

  • What a Year It’s Been (a year in review)
  • Looking Forward . . .

November 25, 1998

  • NCRP Draws the Line on Radiation Exposure Effects

October 26, 1998

  • NRC Announces License Termination Workshops
  • New Guidance on Distribution Licenses

September 30, 1998

  • Change in Adjudication Regulations for Veterans

August 22, 1998

  • Federal Regulations on Medical Uses of Radioactivity to Change – USNRC Proposing Extensive Revisions

July 27, 1998

  • Multi-agency Action on Respiratory Protection
  • USNRC Issues Minor Modifications to 10 CFR 20

June 18, 1998

  • Federal Guidance on Risk Raises Concerns
  • Committee on NORM Standardization Formed

May 20, 1998

  • USNRC Publishes Revised Enforcement Policy
  • HHS Issues Proposed Rule on Human Research

April 22, 1998

  • USNRC Takes Action on Sealed Sources

March 19, 1998

  • EPA Announces it is Exempting Releases of Certain Radionuclides from the Reporting requirements of CERCLA and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-know Act

February 11, 1998

  • USNRC Announces MARSSIM Available for Public Use