Jed-- Your understanding of how radiation is regulated is not entirely correct. NRC has cognizance over certain radioactive materials and, hence, the safety associated with handling those materials. Many radioactive materials are not controlled by NRC. For example, materials activated by accelerators like a cyclotron are in general not controlled by NRC. Only by products of devices that utilize special nuclear materials—those that fission primarily—to produce other radioactive materials are controlled by NRC. Thus the way a material is made radioactive is important in which entity were to control its use and, hence, the safety associated with such use. Many naturally radioactive materials are not regulated at all. Neutron activation accomplished by an accelerator is not controlled by NRC. Radiation produced by LENR likewise not controlled by NRC, to my knowledge.
I know of no regulator that would have cognizance over activity that stems from a LENR device. It may be that some consumer produce safety regulator may have cognizance, however, I am not aware of any regulations that specify limits on radiation in general. OSHA may control work place safety and dangerous radiation in the work place. They may even cover radiation in the work place via some of their many regulations. FDA may also regulate radio pharmaceuticals where the scope of the usage involves some medical application, but they have no general scope of preview that would apply to industrial applications or even domestic products. Microwaves, for example are not regulated by FDA to my knowledge, even though they involve significant radiation. Commercial x-ray devices used for non-destructive testing are not controlled by FDA. OSHA probably probably does control industrial x-ray devices. Bob Cook From: Jed Rothwell Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2016 12:18 PM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: Re: [Vo]:LENR's past helping its radical renewal Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote: Rossi knows that his reactor can produce radiation. He has taken steps to reduce of eliminate that radiation. Yes. I know. Assuming he is right about that, then what you said previously makes no sense. You said: "Rossi would have no way to predict that his technology is radiation free." Now you say he does know! He is sure it can produce radiation. Which is it? I do not understand what point you are trying to make here. You wrote: "If any radiation is seen coming out of the X-Cat, that would put Rossi in a very difficult spot with NRC and FDA regulation and licensing . . ." Yes. And if there has been any significant radiation, he will know that! He must have a detector. I do not understand how he could be in doubt, not knowing one way or the other. Your the person who said that Rossi's reactor needed to be tested for years to see if it produced radiation. Yes, and now it has been tested for a year. That should be long enough to establish a pretty good first approximation answer. If there is radiation obviously it will need many more years to establish the exact nature of the radiation, to develop a theory, and to have the theory checked and accepted by the majority of physicists so that we can be sure the radiation is controlled or fully prevented in a commercial device. Obviously he cannot sell the thing commercially if it produces more radiation than, say, a smoke detector. The public will not allow that, nor should it. My point is that he knows the answer by now. It is not a surprise for him. It cannot be that he does not know the outcome of the test. The FDA has product rules for radiation production produced over a time period. If that limit is exceeded, licensing is required. I have not heard of these rules, but I am not be surprised to hear there are such rules. - Jed
