Article 2 Interpretation

In this Order—

• “interim store” means a store which is used for the storage of intermediate level waste or spent fuel from a nuclear installation on the site where the store is located and where the store is built during the operation of a nuclear installation on the site;

• “intermediate level waste” means radioactive waste—

  1. (a)

     which has a level of radioactivity above four gigabecquerels per tonne (GBq/te) of alpha activity or twelve GBq/te of beta or gamma activity; and

  2. (b)

     where the heat generated by the waste does not need to be taken into account in the design of an interim store;

• “spent fuel” means nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in and permanently removed from a reactor core.