Regulatory Constraints Analysis (ANL) - Status

• Status
• Evaluation of current status completed in FY02
• All manufacturing of DU products requires a license
• Most uses in radiologically unregulated areas would require a license for use unless exempt
• Use licenses are impractical in essentially all cases
• Large industrial users may be an exception
• Exemptions are issued on a case-by-case basis
• Best exemption candidates
• Use in space and defense applications
• Catalysts (DU may be sufficiently dilute)
• Industrial applications
• Report: "Regulation of New DU Uses," ANL/EAD/TM/02-5 (January 2003) http://web.ead.anl.gov/uranium/documents/rduses/index.cfm