ATOMIC ENERGY: SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION

ATOMIC ENERGY: SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION

ATOMIC ENERGY REGULATIONS

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ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

    REGULATION

PART I
PRELIMINARY

    1.    Citation

    2.    Interpretation

PART II
GENERAL PROVISIONS

    3.    Purpose

    4.    Scope

    5.    Application

    6.    Exposures

    7.    Exclusions

    8.    Responsible parties

    9.    Access to premises and information

    10.    Non-compliance, incidents and accidents

    11.    Enforcement

    12.    Applicability of other regulations and requirements, and resolution of conflicts

    13.    Additional requirements

    14.    General obligations

PART III
ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS

    15.    Requirements for notification

    16.    Exemption of practices and sources

    17.    Requirements for licence

    18.    Responsibilities of licensees

    19.    Requirements for reporting to the Authority

    20.    Feedback of operating experience

    21.    Clearance levels

PART IV
RADIATION PROTECTION REQUIREMENTS

    22.    Justification of practices

    23.    Dose limitation

    24.    Optimization of protection and safety

    25.    Dose constraints

    26.    Guidance levels for diagnostic medical exposure

PART V
MANAGEMENT REQUIREMENTS

    27.    Safety culture

    28.    Confidentiality of information

    29.    Management system

    30.    Human factors

    31.    Radiation protection officers and qualified experts in radiation safety

PART VI
VERIFICATION OF SAFETY

    32.    Safety assessment

    33.    Monitoring, testing and verification of compliance

    34.    Inventory and records

PART VII
OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE PROTECTION

    35.    General responsibilities

    36.    Conditions of service

    37.    Classification of areas

    38.    Local rules and supervision

    39.    Personal protective equipment

    40.    Exposure assessment

    41.    Monitoring of workplace

    42.    Health surveillance

    43.    Records of worker exposure

    44.    Special circumstances

PART VIII
MEDICAL EXPOSURE PROTECTION

    45.    General responsibilities

    46.    Justification of medical exposure

    47.    Optimization of protection for medical exposures

    48.    Calibration, clinical dosimetry and management system for medical exposures

    49.    Dose constraints

    50.    Guidance levels

    51.    Maximum activity for patients in therapy and discharge from hospital

    52.    Investigation of accidental medical exposure

    53.    Records related to medical exposures

PART IX
PUBLIC EXPOSURE PROTECTION

    54.    General responsibilities

    55.    Control of visitors

    56.    Sources of external irradiation

    57.    Radioactive contamination in enclosed spaces

    58.    Monitoring of public exposure

    59.    Consumer products

PART X
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DESIGN, PROTECTION AND SUPPLY OF RADIATION SOURCES

    60.    General responsibilities

    61.    Design of radiation sources

    62.    Supply and procurement of radioactive sources

    63.    Domestic transfer of radiation sources

PART XI
IMPORT AND EXPORT OF CATEGORY 1 AND 2 RADIOACTIVE SOURCES

    64.    Export of category 1 or 2 radioactive sources

    65.    Import of category 1 and 2 radioactive sources

PART XII
RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT REQUIREMENTS

    66.    Radioactive waste classification

    67.    General responsibilities

    68.    Licence application

    69.    Appointment of radioactive waste management officer

    70.    Control of radioactive waste generation

    71.    Collection, segregation, and characterization of radioactive waste

    72.    Conditioning of radioactive waste

    73.    Radioactive waste processing facilities

    74.    Discharge or release of radioactive materials to the environment

    75.    Waste storage

    76.    Acceptance criteria for storage of radioactive waste

    77.    Radioactive waste storage facilities

    78.    Recycle and reuse of radioactive materials

    79.    Management of disused radioactive sources

    80.    Radioactive waste from mining and milling operations

    81.    Existing facilities and past practices

    82.    Radioactive waste records and reports

PART XIII
DECOMMISSIONING REQUIREMENTS

    83.    Decommissioning

    84.    Decommissioning plan

PART XIV
TRANSPORTATION OF RADIOACTIVE SOURCES OR WASTE

    85.    Transport requirements

PART XV
REQUIREMENTS FOR EMERGENCY INTERVENTION

    86.    Responsibilities of licensees

    87.    Licensee emergency response planning requirements

    88.    Implementation of intervention

    89.    Protection of workers undertaking an intervention

    90.    Use of international safety standards and other publications

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        SECOND SCHEDULE

        THIRD SCHEDULE

        FOURTH SCHEDULE

G.N. 22/2012
61/2021

ATOMIC ENERGY REGULATIONS

PART I
PRELIMINARY

1.    Citation

    These Regulations may be cited as the Atomic Energy Regulations.

2.    Interpretation

    In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

    “category 1, 2 or 3 radioactive source” means the International Atomic Energy Agency Categorization of Radio Active Sources contained in the Fourth Schedule;

    “critical group” means a group of members of the public which is reasonably homogeneous with respect to its exposure for a given radiation source and given exposure pathway and is typical of individuals receiving the highest effective dose or equivalent dose, as applicable from the given source;

    “defence in depth” means a hierarchical deployment of different levels of diverse equipment and procedures to prevent the escalation of anticipated operational occurrences and to maintain the effectiveness of physical barriers placed between a radiation source or radioactive material and workers, members of the public or the environment, in operational states and, for some barriers, in accident conditions;

    “disused radioactive source” means…