A NEW FAMILY OF TYPE B RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL TRANSPORT PACKAGES

Alpha-Omega Services, Inc. (AOS) owns and operates a series of Type B quantities radioactive material transport containers to support their commercial operations. AOS provides radioactive material sources, primarily Co-60 and Ir-192, for medical applications. After October 2008, with the implementation of the new NRC rules, these containers will no longer be certified; therefore, a solution must be found and executed to allow distribution of the sources to their customers after this date. 2 Development and licensing costs of a Type B quantity container are currently in the millions of dollars. The cost of several designs, as is required by AOS, is prohibitive because they are a small company. For the above reason, AOS found and executed a solution which was to design one container in such a way that its features could be scaled to the required sizes. This approach has created a family of Type B containers at a fraction of the cost of developing each individual container size.