NEWS 2024:

The Conference Radiation Control Program Directors (CRCPD) Source Collection and Threat Reduction (SCATR) Program has begun its 2023-24 unwanted radioactive sealed source collection and disposal effort. CRCPD/SCATR provides cost-shared support for the packaging, transport, and commercial disposal of Class A, B, and C sources. SCATR receives funding through a grant provided by the Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).

SCATR is targeting a 40% cost-share amount for 2023-24 program participants. Licensees in all 50 States and U.S. territories are eligible for program participation. The SCATR program is now accepting larger sources. If your shipment requires a Type B cask you will be offered a 50% cost-share amount.

Note: Cost-share targets are set on an annual basis. However, the cost-share amount is expected to remain constant each year going forward. While the program makes every effort to assist as many eligible generators as possible each year at the targeted cost-share amount, the cost-share support available, as well as the number and location of sources collected, are subject to funding, logistic, and other considerations.

To qualify for SCATR participation, licensees must register their disused and unwanted sources with the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Off-Site Source Recovery Program (OSRP) at:

http://osrp.lanl.gov/PickUpSources.aspx

Interested licensees are encouraged to complete source registration as soon as possible. Source registration does not imply a commitment by either the generator or CRCPD with regard to program participation. CRCPD selects participants, in part, based on the number of sources the generator has registered with OSRP/LANL. However, any previously registered party is encouraged to contact the person listed below to request to participate.

All registered parties are encouraged to request a copy of information about their facilities and source inventory to determine if the information in the SCATR database is accurate and up to date.

For more information on CRCPD/SCATR or the 2023-24 national SCATR collection, please contact Russ Meyer at 512-761-3822, rmeyer@crcpd.org

The US Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has asked the LLW Forum’s Disused Sources Working Group (DSWG) to evaluate the impact that the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) 2015 revision to the Branch Technical Position (BTP) on Concentration Averaging and Encapsulation has had on the disposal of radioactive sealed sources.
Click here to view the report.

In 1980, Congress passed the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act. This legislation gives states the responsibility to provide for disposal of commercial low-level radioactive waste and encourages states to form interstate agreements, or compacts, to cooperatively implement the law. The federal legislation of 1980, and the subsequent Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1985, were endorsed by the Governors of the 50 states.

Until 1985, representatives of the Governors worked to achieve the goals of the law through a committee of the National Governors’ Association. After passage of the 1985 amendments, representatives of compacts and states established a separate organization, known as the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Forum, to promote the objectives of the federal law and the compacts.

In 2001, the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Forum became an independent nonprofit organization— the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Forum, Inc.

The LLW Forum, Inc. is pleased to offer memberships and subscriptions to its various written materials including newsletters, news flashes, summary report, meeting reports, contact list, and the closed portions of its web site. A complete listing of memberships and subscription rates and how they can be purchased can be found on the “About” page.