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The Michigan State University Broad Scope License

Michigan State University operates under the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission License Number 21-00021-29. This license is a large scale non-fuel cycle Type A broad scope license. Type A broad licenses may only be given to large facilities who have a long history of radioactive materials use with a good safety record. It allows Michigan State University the privilege of using large varieties of radioactive materials. Large amounts of activity are authorized and may then be used in many locations, with many procedures and users that change frequently. The broad license confers authority upon the University to approve, manage and control the receipt, use and disposal of radioactive materials. In fact, the University acts to "police" itself under the authority given in a broad license.

The broad license has one feature which must always be remembered by each radioactive materials user: there is only one license for the entire university, and any individual or action which jeopardizes the license endangers the permission of all researchers to utilize radioactive material at MSU. If, for any reason, the license is suspended or terminated, no individual or principal investigator may use radioactive materials of any kind until the license is reinstated. Therefore, this license places significant responsibility on each individual who uses radioactive materials to conform with safe work practices, and to conduct and complete all required compliance duties, however large or small they may be.

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