General Rules for Ocean Movement (Chap 13)

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within CONUS, including movement to an aerial port for transshipment overseas, the transportation officer at origin will

arrange the movement as specified in AR 55-355 or AR 55-16.

6-7. General Rules for Ocean Movement (Chap 13)

a. All water movements of radioactive materials will be made according to applicable US Coast Guard (USCG)

regulations.

b. Escorted shipments of radioactive materials will be handled under normal "export release" procedures.

6-8. General Rules for US Mail Movement (AR 385-11 and Chap 14)

a. Shipment by US mail and/or parcel post will be checked by the installation radiation protection officer. He will

ensure that all required coordination is made and that all postal regulations are complied with.

b. Chapter 14 contains the shipping details.

6-9. General Rules for Loading

a. Quantity, radiation level, dose, and contamination limitations described in chapters 3 and 4 must not be

exceeded. Before loading, the radiation levels and spreadable surface contamination will be surveyed.

b. Radioactive materials must not be loaded, transported, or stored with any of the following (49 CFR 177.842 and

177.848):

(1) Low explosives or black powder.

(2) High explosives or propellant explosives, class A.

(3) Initiating or priming explosives, wet: diazodinitrophenol, fulminate of mercury, guanyl nitrosamino

guanylidene hydrazine, lead styphnate, nitro mannite, nitrosoguanidine, pentaerythrite tetranitrate, tetrazene, and lead

mononitroresorcinate.

(4) Blasting caps, with or without safety fuse (including electric blasting caps), and detonating primers.

(5) Ammunition for cannon with explosive projectiles, gas projectiles, smoke projectiles, incendiary projectiles,

illuminating projectiles, or shell; ammunition for small arms with explosive bullets; ammunition for small arms with

explosive projectiles; rocket ammunition with explosive projectiles, gas projectiles, smoke projectiles, incendiary

projectiles, or illuminating projectiles; boosters (explosive); bursters (explosive); and supplementary charges (explosive)

without detonators.

(6) Explosive projectiles; bombs; torpedoes; mines; rifle or hand grenades (explosive); jet thrust units (jato),

class A; rocket motors, class A; and igniters, rocket motor, class A.

(7) Detonating fuzes, class A, with or without radioactive components.

(8) Blasting caps, 1,000 or fewer, with or without safety fuse (including electric blasting caps), and detonating

primers.

c. Radioactive materials may be loaded with other compatible cargo to economize on available equipment space.

However, no types of radioactive materials will be loaded in the same vehicle or compartment of an aircraft or ship with

vegetables, fruits, bagged grains, or other contaminable foodstuffs. Compliance with loading and storage charts (b

above) contained in 49 CFR 171-179 and AFR 71-4/TM 38-250 is mandatory. Care must be exercised to prevent loading

or handling of packages labeled Radioactive Yellow-II or Radioactive Yellow-III near photographic film and supplies, to

prevent radiation damage to such film and supplies.

d. The shipment will be loaded so as to prevent loss, dispersal, or shifting of loading under normal transport

conditions.

e. Shipments of low specific activity (LSA) materials must be loaded so as to avoid spillage and scattering of loose

materials (49 CFR 177.842 and 174.700).

f. Shippers must furnish the material for restraining packages of dangerous articles loaded by them.

g. When radioactive materials are loaded by the shipper or are unloaded by the consignee, the shipper or consignee

must observe all applicable requirements, including application or removal of placards or car certificates (49 CFR

172.504 to 172.558).

h. A railcar placarded RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS in a freight train or mixed train, either standing or during

transport, must not be placed next to cars placarded EXPLOSIVES or next to carload shipments of undeveloped film.

i. The number of packages of radioactive materials in any railcar, motor vehicle, trailer, aircraft, or storage place

must be limited so that the total transport index (the sum of the transport indexes on the individual packages) does not

exceed 50. This provision does not apply to sole-use shipments.

j. The shipping agency must lift and move heavy cask(s) of radioactive material when it has the necessary hoisting

equipment. If the agency has no such equipment, it will arrange with an appropriate support element for hoisting

equipment. The shipper will furnish the support element with the weight and size of the cask(s) to be moved and any

special movement instructions. The supporting element providing the hoisting equipment will lift the cask(s) onto or off

transport carriers.

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