NRC Renews Form for Tracking Radioactive Sources
Published Date: 4/24/2026
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Summary
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is renewing its NRC Form 748, which helps track special radioactive materials to keep everyone safe. This affects companies and organizations that handle these materials, who must keep reporting as usual. You’ve got until May 26, 2026, to share your thoughts, and there’s no new cost or big changes—just a smooth renewal to keep things running.
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Mandatory NRC Form 748 Reporting
If your company is a licensee that manufactures, receives, transfers, disassembles, or disposes of nationally tracked radioactive sources, you must report key transactions to the NRC using NRC Form 748. The collection is required "on occasion" (at completion of a transaction and at inventory reconciliation) and the NRC estimates 977 respondents will file about 17,825 responses totaling 2,181 hours annually. The NRC submitted this collection for renewal (OMB control number 3150-0202) and is accepting comments until May 26, 2026.
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