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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-nuclear-decommissioning-and-waste-handling-designated-technical-matters-order-2010/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2010/9780111502877",
  "legislation_title": "The Nuclear Decommissioning and Waste Handling (Designated Technical Matters) Order 2010",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“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;\n“intermediate level waste” means radioactive waste—\n(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\n(b) where the heat generated by the waste does not need to be taken into account in the design of an interim store;\n“spent fuel” means nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in and permanently removed from a reactor core.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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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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