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Due to a lapse in appropriations, the NRC has ceased normal operations. However, excepted and exempted activities necessary to maintain critical health and safety functions—as well as essential progress on designated critical activities, including those specified in Executive Order 14300—will continue, consistent with the OMB-Approved NRC Lapse Plan.

Transportation Package Correspondence

Transportation Package Types

A gold-colored 55 gallon steel drum with the words 'Radioactive Waste' stenciled in black on the top third of the drum, and a black trefoil symbol, long accepted as the label for denoting radioactive material -- in the middle section of the drums exterior A glass laboratory flask with a black, rubber stopper plug in the top. The flask is half-full with a florescent green fluid, and in the center of the round body of the flask is a black trefoil symbol, long accepted as the label for denoting radioactive material
Type B Waste Type B (Normal Form)
Cutaway image of sealed capsule, contaiining radioactive material in a sealed source which is either a single solid piece or is contained in a sealed capsule that can be opened only by destroying the capsule and has been tested and meets the qualification requirements in 10 CFR 71.75. Examples include radiography cameras and irradiators. The cutaway image shows the various layered structure material of the sealed capsule, with the words 'Stainless steel outside' pointing to the outer surface; 'Stainless steel inside', pointing to the inner surface, and 'Cobalt 60' pointing to the most inner material. A fuel assembly with the top portion separated from the rest of the fuel assembly; appearance is a long rectangular box, silver in color with multiple louvers over the entire surface. It is used to house the long, slender, metal tubes containing pellets of fissionable material, which provide fuel for nuclear reactors
Type B (Special Form) Spent Fuel
Ceramic fuel pellets in trays; grey, cylindrical pellets laying side by side in fitted trays  
Unirradiated Fissile Material  

Page Last Reviewed/Updated Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Page Last Reviewed/Updated Wednesday, July 21, 2021