§ 71.24 - General license: Fissile material, limited moderator, controlled shipment.  

(a) A general license is issued to any licensee of the Commission to transport fissile material, or to deliver fissile material to a carrier for transport, without complying with the package standards of subparts E and F of this part, if limited material is shipped in accordance with this section.

(b) The general license applies only to a licensee who has a quality assurance program approved by the Commission as satisfying the provisions of subpart H of this part.

(c) This general license applies only when—

(1) No package contains more than a Type A quantity of radioactive material;

(2) The packaging does not incorporate lead shielding exceeding 5 cm in thickness, tungsten shielding, or uranium shielding;

(3) Neither beryllium nor hydrogenous material enriched in deuterium is present;

(4) The total mass of graphite present does not exceed 7.7 times the total mass of uranium-235 and plutonium;

(5) Substances having a higher hydrogen density than water (e.g., certain hydrocarbon oils), are not present, except that polyethylene may be used for packing or wrapping;

(6) For fissile contents containing no uranium-233 and less than 1 percent by weight total plutonium, if the fissile radionuclides are—

(i) Not uniformly distributed, the maximum amount of uranium-235 per consignment does not exceed the value given in Table III of this part; or

(ii) Distributed uniformly and cannot form a lattice arrangement within the packaging, the maximum amount of uranium-235 per shipment does not exceed the value given in Table IV of this part;

(7) For fissile contents containing uranium-233 or more than 1 percent by weight plutonium, the total mass of fissile material per shipment is limited so that the sum of the number of grams of uranium-235 divided by 400, the number of grams of plutonium divided by 225, and the number of grams of uranium-233 divided by 250, does not exceed unity, as expressed in the formula:

(8) The transport must be direct to the consignee without any intermediate transit storage; and

(9) Shipment of these packages is made under procedures specifically authorized by DOT in accordance with 49 CFR part 173 of its regulations to prevent loading, transport, or storage of these packages with other fissile material shipments.