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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2010/schedule-23/part-2/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2010/9780111491423",
  "legislation_title": "The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-environmental-permitting-england-and-wales-regulations-2010",
  "path": "schedule/23/part/2/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation: radioactive material",
  "text": "(1) In this Schedule, “radioactive material” means anything which, not being waste, is either a substance to which this sub-paragraph applies or an article made wholly or partly from, or incorporating, such a substance.\n(2) Sub-paragraph (1) applies to any substance which—\n(a) contains an element specified in the first column of the table in sub-paragraph (4), in such a proportion that the number of becquerels of that element contained in the substance, divided by the number of grams which the substance weighs, is a number greater than that specified in relation to that element in the appropriate column of that table; or\n(b) possesses radioactivity which is wholly or partly attributable to a process of nuclear fission or other process of subjecting a substance to bombardment by neutrons or to ionising radiations, not being a process occurring in the course of nature, or in consequence of the disposal of radioactive waste, or by way of contamination in the course of the application of a process to some other substance.\n(3) In sub-paragraph (2)(a), “the appropriate column” means—\n(a) in relation to a solid substance, the second column;\n(b) in relation to a liquid substance, the third column;\n(c) in relation to a substance which is a gas or vapour, the fourth column.\n(4) The table referred to in sub-paragraph (2)(a)—\nSpecified elements\nElement\nBecquerels per gram (Bq g (to the power of -1))\nSolid\nLiquid\nGas or Vapour\n1. Actinium\n0.37\n7.40 x (10 to the power of -2)\n2.59 x (10 to the power of -6)\n2. Lead\n0.74\n3.70 x (10 to the power of -3)\n1.11 x (10 to the power of -4)\n3. Polonium\n0.37\n2.59 x (10 to the power of -2)\n2.22 x (10 to the power of -4)\n4. Protoactinium\n0.37\n3.33 x (10 to the power of -2)\n1.11 x (10 to the power of -6)\n5. Radium\n0.37\n3.70 x (10 to the power of -4)\n3.70 x (10 to the power of -5)\n6. Radon\n-\n-\n3.70 x (10 to the power of -2)\n7. Thorium\n2.59\n3.70 x (10 to the power of -2)\n2.22 x (10 to the power of -5)\n8. Uranium\n11.1\n0.74\n7.40 x (10 to the power of -5)",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2010/9780111491423/schedule/23/part/2/paragraph/2",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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