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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

• IEM Certified to the ISO 9001:2000 Standard

• IEM 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

• IEM Celebrates a Birthday!

May 30, 2006

• Regulators Need Money Too

• Potential Changes to 10 CFR 35 in the Wind?

• Verify Your HDR Treatment Assumptions

• IEM 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

• IEM'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 IEM'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 IEM'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

• IEM 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?

• IEM'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 IEM Web Site

• A Couple of IEM 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

• IEM 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

• Medical Laser Safety Concerns Heightened

• Advice on Decommissioning from the USNRC

• Wisconsin Agrees!

• IEM 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

• IEM 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 IEM 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 IEM 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?

• IEM Staff Member Appointed to Important Ohio Committees

• PA Waste Processors/Recyclers Expecting a Visit?

February 25, 2002

• Cell Phone Safety; Talk is Cheap!
• IEM'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?
• IEM 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 IEM 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
• IEM 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
• IEM Working with the IAEA
• IEM'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 IEM 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 IEM 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 IEM 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
• IEM 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
• IEM 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

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