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Information Notices and Regulatory Issue Summaries
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) publishes information notices. These notices provide information regarding safety, safeguards, or environmental issues. The notices bring significant, recently identified safety, security, or environmental information to the attention of licensees. NRC expects licensees to review the information for applicability to their facilities and consider appropriate actions, to avoid similar problems.
Regulatory issue summaries (a new product) are used to (1) document NRC endorsement of the resolution of issues addressed by industry-sponsored initiatives, (2) solicit voluntary licensee participation in staff-sponsored pilot programs, (3) inform licensee of opportunities for regulatory relief, (4) announce staff technical or policy positions not previously communicated to industry or not broadly understood, and (5) address matters previously reserved for administrative letters
Below is a list of NRC information notices and regulatory issue summaries that the Nebraska Radioactive Materials Program has mailed out to its licensees.
These notices and summaries can be accessed at: http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/gen-comm/. Once at the site, find "information notices" or "regulatory information summaries" and click on the appropriate year. Then find the information notice you're interested in.
| Information Notice Number | Title of Information Notice | The notice is for the following licensees: | Mailed on: |
| 2007-10 | Yttrium-90 Therapsheres® and Sirspheres® Impurities | Licensees Authorized to Use Yttrium-90 Theraspheres® and Sirspheres® Impurities | 03/28/07 |
| 2006-12 | Exercising Due Diligence When transferring Radioactive Materials | Radioactive Material Licensees | 08/07/06 |
| 2002-23, supplement 1 | Unauthorized Administration of Byproduct Material for Medical Use | Medical Use Radioactive Material Licensees | 08/07/06 |
| 2004-18 | Recent Safety-Related Event at Panoramic Wet-Source Storage Irradiator | Irradiator | 11/22/04 |
| 2003-22 | Heightened Awareness for Patients Containing Detectable Amounts of Radiation from Medical Administration | Nuclear Medicine/ Brachytherapy | 01/07/04 |
| 2003-21 | High-Dose-Rate-Remote-Afterloader Equipment Failure | Nuclear Medicine/HDR's | 12/17/03 |
| 2002-16 | Intravascular Brachytherapy Misadministrations | Nuclear Medicine/ Brachytherapy | 6/19/2002 |
| 2001-11 | Thefts of Portable Gauges | Portable Gauge | 7/24/2001 |
| 2001-01 | The Importance of Accurate Inventory Controls to Prevent the Unauthorized Possession of Radioactive Material | Broad License & Educational | 5/7/2001 |
| 2000-16 | Potential Hazards Due to Volatilization of Radionuclides | Nuclear Pharmacy | 11/20/2000 |
| 2000-15 | Recent Events Resulting in Whole Body Exposures Exceeding Regulatory Limits | Radiography | 11/20/2000 |
| 2000-10 | Recent Events Resulting in Extremity Exposures Exceeding Regulatory Limits | Nuclear Pharmacy | 8/28/2000 |
| 2000-05 | Recent Medical Misadministration Resulting From Inattention to Detail | Nuclear Medicine/ Brachytherapy | 6/8/2000 |
| 99-23 | Safety Concerns Related to Repeated Control Unit Failures of the Nucletron Class Model High-Dose-Rate Remote Afterloading Brachytherapy Devices | Nuclear Medicine/ Brachytherapy
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8/12/1999 |
| 99-09 | Problems Encountered When Manually Editing Treatment Data on the Nucletron Microslectron-HDR (New) Model 105.999 | Nucletron Microselectron-HDR Licensees | 4/29/1999 |
| 98-30 | Effect of the Year 2000 Computer Problem on NRC Licensees and Certificate Holders | Specific Licensee and Reciprocity Licensees | 1/29/1999 |
| 97-91 | Recent Failures of Control Cables Used on 660 Posilock Radiography Systems | Industrial Radiography | 1/29/1999 |
| 97-01 | Potential For Erroneous Calibration, Dose Rate, or Radiation Exposure Measurements with Certain Victoreen Model 530 and 530SI electrometer/Dosimeters | X-ray accelerator, Broad, Nuclear Medicine/Brachytherapy, Teletherapy | 1/29/1999 |
| Regulatory Issue Summary Number | Title of Regulatory Issue Summary | Thesummary is for the following licensees: | Mailed on: |
| 2008-11 | Precautions to Protect Children Who May Come in Contact With Patients Released After Therapeutic Administration of Iodine-131 | Nuclear Medicine Licensees | 06/17/07 |
| NRC News Number | Title of NRC News | Thesummary is for the following licensees: | Mailed on: |
| 08-103 | NRC Updates Guidance to Licensees for Extended Storage of Low-Level Radioactive Waste | Radioactive Material Licensees | 06/19/07 |
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