Hi At least these days, a 5071 comes back from the factory with the same Hazmat labels on it as it ships into their factory with.
Bob > On May 19, 2018, at 4:43 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp <p...@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > > -------- > In message <b17ed93d-0178-456f-b448-a93697e44...@n1k.org>, Bob kb8tq writes: > >> Cs is classified rightly as a hazardous substance. Transporting and shipping >> hazardous stuff is indeed regulated (as it should be). For various silly >> reasons >> the minute amount of Cs inside a virtually indestructible container in a Cs >> standard falls into the hazardous category. > > The reason for this is actually not very silly. > > Very potent Cs137 sources are used in borehole characterization in > disturbingly high numbers, and they are licensed and tracked by the > relevant national regulatory agency, NRC.gov in the USA. > > The HAZMAT regulations used to be different for Cs137 (nuclear > concerns) and Cs133 (chemical concerns) but smartasses in the oil > industry discovered lower costs if they "couldn't remember the > number". > > I belive HP used to have an exemption for shipping factory new > CS-tubes *from* their factory, but not for shipping new or used > tubes *to* their factory, because customers could not be trusted > to pack according to spec. > > -- > Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 > p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 > FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe > Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
