Nevada Administrative Code (Last Updated: January 6, 2015) |
Chapter459 Hazardous Materials |
RADIATION CONTROL |
Standards for Protection Against Radiation |
NAC459.3615. Disposal of waste: Specific wastes.
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1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, a licensee may dispose of the following licensed radioactive material as if it were not radioactive:
(a) Not more than 0.05 microcurie of hydrogen-3 or carbon-14 per gram of medium used for liquid scintillation counting; and
(b) Not more than 0.05 microcurie of hydrogen-3 or carbon-14 per gram of animal tissue, averaged over the weight of the entire animal.
2. A licensee shall not dispose of tissue under paragraph (b) of subsection 1 in a manner that would permit its use either as food for humans or as feed for animals.
3. The licensee shall maintain records of the disposal of radioactive material described in this section until the Division terminates his or her license.
(Added to NAC by Bd. of Health, eff. 1-18-94)