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Article: Feds Plan to Allow Wisconsin to Regulate Radioactive Materials.
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- States News Service
- Article date:
- April 10, 2003
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WASHINGTON, Apr 9, 2003 (States News Service via COMTEX)
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is preparing to end most of its oversight of radioactive materials in Wisconsin, and hand over its regulatory authority to state authorities.
Under a plan that is expected to take effect this summer, the state Department of Health and Family Services will become responsible for overseeing and granting licenses to use low-level radioactive materials.
Hundreds of Wisconsin hospitals, universities and industrial plants currently hold the licenses. Uses of the low-level radioactive materials range from detecting and treating cancer to conducting laboratory ...