Foreword - std3028

DOE-STD-3028-2000

FOREWORD

1. This Department of Energy (DOE) Standard is approved for use by all DOE organizations

and their contractors holding inventories of special nuclear material (SNM) in quantities of at

least low strategic significance (>15 g [0.033 lbm ] U-233) [10 CFR 70.4]. This Standard

deals with stabilization, packaging, and storage of separated 233U-bearing materials.

2. Comments (recommendations, additions, deletions) and pertinent data that may improve

this document should be sent to the Technical Standards Project Office by letter or by using

the self-addressed Document Improvement Proposal (DOE F 1300.3).

3. DOE Technical Standards do not establish requirements. However, all or part of the

provisions in a DOE standard can become requirements under the following circumstances:

(1) the provisions are explicitly stated to be requirements in a DOE requirements document;

(2) the organization makes a commitment to meet a standard in a contract or in an

implementation plan or program plan required by a DOE requirements document.

4. Throughout this Standard, the word "shall" is used to denote actions that must be performed

if the objectives of this Standard are to be met. If the provisions of this Standard become

requirements through one of the ways discussed above, then the "shall" statements would

become requirements.

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