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Category Descriptions

Special Form RAM Sealed radioactive sources in solid form.
Not dispersible into the environment even if the capsule broken.

Excepted Material Small quantity of RAM, if released will cause insignificant hazards.
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Activity limits: < 10 A or 10 A for solid; 10 A for liquid
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Low Specific Activity (LSA) RAM by its nature has a limited specific activity (activity per mass, Bq/g).
Categorized: LSA-I, LSA-II and LSA-III

Surface Contaminated Solid object which is not itself radioactive but which had RAM distributed on its

Object (SCO) surface.
Categorized:

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SCO-I (non-and fixed contamination over 300cm < 4×10 Bq/cm )
SCO-II (non-and fixed contamination > the applicable limit for SCO-I)

Fissile Material U-233, U-235, Pu-238, Pu-239, Pu-241 or their combinations

Exclude natural uranium or depleted uranium not been irradiated or irradiated in
thermal reactors.