Neutron Source

[Richard Hull]

What you suggested WILL work.

It sounds to me that you are somehow under the impression that if you have the money you can get this source of Am241 sent to you. The money is the easy part.

What you cannot do is obtain a 1 Ci Am241 source sample! You can't obtain a 0.5Ci or a 0.05Ci or a 0.005Ci or even a 0.00005 Ci source. You just can't get it!!! You can obtain a .0000001 Ci source under the license free amounts from some calibrator source suplliers.

You may have a catalog offering the 1 Ci source for sale. You may even have called them about it, but before they will take your check, you will have to pony up a verifiable, tracable, radionuclide/source site license number for both the state and federal agencies. Foreign requirements are equally nightmarish.

The final question....do your have these licenses for your specific location in hand? Have the Feds and local authorities visited your location and certified it for such a large source storage and use?

If yes, then you are home free.

If no, then you will never have those licenses issued to you during your lifetime. Again,...

No licenses issued to private citizens PERIOD!
No licensed sources stored in residential settings PERIOD!
No new license issued without full site inspection PERIOD!
No new license issued without on site certified health physicist or trained and certified radiation specialist PERIOD!

New hurdles and costs are added daily.

Richard Hull

[guest]

Hey folks the insurance issue is the big thing in licensing a million dollar policy with an open ended debt load is required.... the company I worked for didn't keep such crud around ... we went to a licenced facility run by the government. LLNL. DOE ECt. The pony up fee was in the neighborhood of fifty grand.
Makes the eberline cal look dirt cheap to me.

Larry Leins
Physics Teacher