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ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ACT 1999 - SECT 22

What is a nuclear action?
(1)
In this Act:

"nuclear action" means any of the following:

(a)
establishing or significantly modifying a nuclear installation;

(b)
transporting spent nuclear fuel or radioactive waste products arising from reprocessing;

(c)
establishing or significantly modifying a facility for storing radioactive waste products arising from reprocessing;

(d)
mining or milling uranium ore;

(e)
establishing or significantly modifying a large-scale disposal facility for radioactive waste;

(f)
de-commissioning or rehabilitating any facility or area in which an activity described in paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) has been undertaken;

(g)
any other action prescribed by the regulations.

"nuclear installation" means any of the following:

(a)
a nuclear reactor for research or production of nuclear materials for industrial or medical use (including critical and sub-critical assemblies);

(b)
a plant for preparing or storing fuel for use in a nuclear reactor as described in paragraph (a);

(c)
a nuclear waste storage or disposal facility with an activity that is greater than the activity level prescribed by regulations made for the purposes of this section;

(d)
a facility for production of radioisotopes with an activity that is greater than the activity level prescribed by regulations made for the purposes of this section.

Note: A nuclear waste storage or disposal facility could include a facility for storing spent nuclear fuel, depending on the regulations.

"radioactive waste" means radioactive material for which no further use is foreseen.

"reprocessing" means a process or operation to extract radioactive isotopes from spent nuclear fuel for further use.

"spent nuclear fuel" means nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in a nuclear reactor core and permanently removed from the core.

(2)
In this Act:

"large-scale disposal facility" for radioactive waste means, if regulations are made for the purposes of this definition, a facility prescribed by the regulations.


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