Section 180-4-024 - CONTROL OF ACCESS TO VERY HIGH RADIATION AREASThe requirements for control of access to very high radiation areas are as follows.
024.01UNAUTHORIZED OR INADVERTENT ACCESS. In addition to the requirements in 180 NAC 4-023, the licensee or registrant must institute measures to ensure that an individual is not able to gain unauthorized or inadvertent access to areas in which radiation levels could be encountered at 5 Gy (500 rad) or more in 1 hour at 1 meter from a source of radiation or any surface through which the radiation penetrates. This requirement does not apply to rooms or areas in which diagnostic x-ray systems are the only source of radiation, or to non-self-shielded irradiators.024.02EXCEPTION. The registrant is not required to control entrance or access to rooms or other areas containing sources of radiation capable of producing a very high radiation area as described in 180 NAC 4-024.01 if the registrant has met all the specific requirements for access and control specified in applicable chapters of Title 180, 180 NAC 5 for industrial radiography, 180 NAC 6 for x-rays in the healing arts, or 180 NAC 9 for particle accelerators.180 Neb. Admin. Code, ch. 4, § 024
Amended effective 6/7/2021