Radioactive Materials Version 5 (A0196471.DOC;1)

According to Dicus, more than 60 percent of these meltings involved Cs-137 or Co-60 at a range of 8.1 – 513 mCi and Am –241 at a range of 40.5 – 99.9 mCi. In 1997, a 100mCi Am-241 source in a gauge was inadvertently discarded as metal scrap by a licensee and sent with other metal scrap to a metal scrap processing facility. ................
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