Regulation 2 Prescribed conditions

(1)

The conditions prescribed under section 7C(1)(a)(iii) of the Act are that, during the lifetime of the site—

(a)

the effective dose from radiation released from the site to a member of the public off site would be no greater than 1 millisievert in any 12-month period in all reasonably foreseeable circumstances and assuming no protective or mitigating actions are taken (the dose condition);

(b)

the risk of criticality occurring on the site is negligible (the criticality condition).

(2)

In this regulation—

(a)

“Act” means the Nuclear Installations Act 1965;

(b)

“effective dose” has the meaning given by section 11H(11) of the Act^f1;

(c)

“the lifetime of the site” means the period during which the site is subject to an appropriate permit^f2.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Section 11H was inserted by S.I. 2016/562.
f2: See the definition of “appropriate permit” in section 26(1) of the Nuclear Installations Act 1965 (c. 57).