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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]On September 30, 2009, the State of New Jersey became the 37<\/span>th<\/span> Agreement State by signing an agreement with the United State Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) authorizing the State to license and regulate byproduct, source, and certain special nuclear radioactive materials users. This authority is in addition to our existing authority to regulate diffuse Naturally Occurring and Accelerator-Produced Radioactive Materials (NARM).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

New Jersey\u2019s Agreement State Program, seated in the Bureau of Environmental Radiation, is responsible for licensing approximately 500 users, including hospitals, universities, industrial facilities, doctors, irradiators, water treatment systems, and pharmaceutical companies. The radioactive material employed by these users may be contained in medical pharmaceuticals administered to patients, in unsealed forms used for research & development of in sealed sources inside industrial devices used in commerce throughout the State of New Jersey.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row equal_height=”yes”][vc_column width=”1\/4″]

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