Regulations, Guidance, and Communications of Medical, Industrial, Academic Uses of Nuclear Materials
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Regulations
NRC's regulations are found in Chapter I of Title 10, "Energy," of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). Chapter I is divided into Parts 1 through 199. The following are the principal parts governing the licensing of medical, industrial, and academic uses of nuclear materials.
- Part 19 - Notices, Instructions and Reports to Workers: Inspection and Investigations
- Part 20 - Standards for Protection Against Radiation
- Part 21 - Reporting of Defects and Noncompliance
- Part 30 - Rules of General Applicability to Domestic Licensing of Byproduct Material
- Part 31 - General Domestic Licenses for Byproduct Material
- Part 32 - Specific Domestic Licenses To Manufacture or Transfer Certain Items Containing Byproduct Material
- Part 33 - Specific Domestic Licenses of Broad Scope for Byproduct Material
- Part 34 - Licenses for Industrial Radiography and Radiation Safety Requirements for Industrial Radiographic Operations
- Part 35 - Medical Use of Byproduct Material
- Part 36 - Licenses and Radiation Safety Requirements for Irradiators
- Part 37 - Physical Protection of Category 1 and Category 2 Quantities of Radioactive Material
- Part 39 - Licenses and Radiation Safety Requirements for Well Logging
- Part 40 - Domestic Licensing of Source Material
- Part 70 - Domestic Licensing of Special Nuclear Material
- Part 71 - Packaging and Transportation of Radioactive Material
- Part 110 - Export and Import of Nuclear Equipment and Material
- Part 150.20 - Reciprocity: Recognition of Agreement State Licenses
- Part 170 - Fees for Facilities, Materials, Import and Export Licenses, and Other Regulatory Services Under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as Amended
- Part 171 - Annual Fees for Reactor Licenses and Fuel Cycle Licenses and Materials Licenses, Including Holders of Certificates of Compliance, Registrations, and Quality Assurance Program Approvals and Government Agencies Licensed by the NRC
See also, information on all NRC Rules and Petitions.
The NRC welcomes Public Involvement in Rulemaking, and invites the public to comment on proposed rules and policies, licensing actions, and draft technical documents. We announce public comment opportunities in the Federal Register and on our Documents for Comment page.
Guidance
Consolidated guidance about medical, academic, and industrial uses of nuclear materials is published in "Consolidated Guidance About Materials Licenses" (NUREG-1556, Volumes 1-21).
Web (HTML) versions of some guidance documents are available in our NRC Formal Publication Collection. Some are also are available in NRC's Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) (see our table listing their availability).
Regulatory guides are issued in 10 divisions and are intended to aid licensees in implementing regulations. The guides most applicable to medical, industrial, and academic uses of nuclear materials are in
The following regulatory guides (RGs) in Division 8 are the ones most relevant to medical, industrial, and academic uses of nuclear material:
- RG 8.7 - Instructions for Recording and Reporting Occupational Radiation Exposure Data
- RG 8.9 - Acceptable Concepts, Models, Equations, and Assumptions for a Bioassay Program
- RG 8.13 - Instruction Concerning Prenatal Radiation Exposure
- RG 8.15 - Acceptable Programs for Respiratory Protection
- RG 8.18 - Information Relevant to Ensuring that Occupational Radiation Exposures at Medical Institutions Will Be as Low as Reasonably Achievable
- RG 8.20 - Applications for Bioassay for I-125 and -131
- RG 8.21 - Health Physics Surveys for Byproduct Material at the NRC-Licensed Processing and Manufacturing Plants
- RG 8.25 - Air Sampling in the Workplace
- RG 8.29 - Instruction Concerning Risks from Occupational Radiation Exposure
- RG 8.32 - Criteria for Establishing a Tritium Bioassay Program
- RG 8.34 - Monitoring Criteria and Methods To Calculate Occupational Radiation Doses
- RG 8.35 - Planned Special Exposures
- RG 8.36 - Radiation Dose to the Embryo/Fetus
- RG 8.37 - ALARA Levels for Effluents from Materials Facilities
Web (HTML) versions of some regulatory guides are available for viewing or downloading. Those available are highlighted in the index to our Regulatory Guide document collection. All active final and draft guides are also available in ADAMS.
Guidance on preparing required reports is available in:
- NUREG/BR-0006 - Instructions for Completing Nuclear Material Transaction Reports
- NUREG/BR-0007 - Instructions for the Preparation and Distribution of Material Status Reports
Communications
Generic communications are NRC's primary method of sending information to specific classes of licensees. There are several types:
Newsletters are another way of sending information to NRC licensees. The NMSS Quarterly Newsletter (NUREG/BR-0117) contains information about medical, industrial, and academic uses of nuclear material.