Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) In this Act:
"nuclear action" means any of the following:
(a) establishing or significantly modifying a nuclear installation;
(b) transporting spent nuclear fuel or radioactive waste products arising from reprocessing;
(c) establishing or significantly modifying a facility for storing radioactive waste products arising from reprocessing;
(d) mining or milling uranium ore;
(e) establishing or significantly modifying a large - scale disposal facility for radioactive waste;
(f) de - commissioning or rehabilitating any facility or area in which an activity described in paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) has been undertaken;
(g) any other action prescribed by the regulations.
"nuclear installation" means any of the following:
(a) a nuclear reactor for research or production of nuclear materials for industrial or medical use (including critical and sub - critical assemblies);
(b) a plant for preparing or storing fuel for use in a nuclear reactor as described in paragraph (a);
(c) a nuclear waste storage or disposal facility with an activity that is greater than the activity level prescribed by regulations made for the purposes of this section;
(d) a facility for production of radioisotopes with an activity that is greater than the activity level prescribed by regulations made for the purposes of this section.
Note: A nuclear waste storage or disposal facility could include a facility for storing spent nuclear fuel, depending on the regulations.
"radioactive waste" means radioactive material for which no further use is foreseen.
"reprocessing" means a process or operation to extract radioactive isotopes from spent nuclear fuel for further use.
"spent nuclear fuel" means nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in a nuclear reactor core and permanently removed from the core.
(2) In this Act:
"large-scale disposal facility" for radioactive waste means, if regulations are made for the purposes of this definition, a facility prescribed by the regulations.