The US Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) 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.
A disused source is any sealed source of radioactive material that is not currently being utilized and will never be utilized again for the original intended purpose.
There are approximately 2 million sealed sources and tens of thousands of disused sources in the United States.