Section 3

5. In this Specific Regulation -

The activity value of a special form radioactive material or nuclear material, and is used to deter-mine the activity limits for the requirements of this Specific Regulation.

The activity value of radioactive material or nuclear material, other than a special form radioactive material and is used to determine the activity limits for the requirements of this Specific Regulation.

Conditions that prevail during accident, being conditions similar to the conditions simulated by a combination of the tests specified in the Eighteenth Schedule with respect to a package.

Any form of approval associated with the transport of radioactive material or nuclear material issued by NRRC as prescribed in Regulation on Notification on and Authorization of Facilities and Activities With Radiation Sources (NRRC-R-02).

The limit of annual dose, whose value for the respective groups of the population is specified in the Regulation on Radiation Safety (NRRC-R-01), which must not be exceeded.

Any aircraft, other than a passenger aircraft, which is carrying goods or property.

The assembly of fissile material and packaging components specified by the designer and agreed to by the NRRC as intended to preserve criticality safety.

The assembly of components of the packaging specified by the designer as intended to retain the radioactive material during transport.

Postal services provided in an expedited manner with track and trace service.

A self-sustaining chain process of nuclear fission that can be maintained without an additional source of neutrons.

Articles or substances as defined in accordance with any laws governing transport of dangerous goods in the Kingdom.

An area on the weather deck of a vessel or of a vehicle deck of a roll-on/roll-off ship or a ferry which is allocated for the stowage of radioactive material or nuclear material.

Uranium containing a lesser mass percentage of uranium-235 than in the natural uranium.

The description of special form radioactive material, low dispersible radioactive material, package or packaging which enables such an item to be fully identified and may include specifications, engineering drawings, reports demonstrating compliance with regulatory requirements and other relevant documentation.

Uranium containing a greater mass percentage of uranium-235 than 0.72%.

A material containing any of the fissile nuclides. Excluded from the definition of fissile material are the following: 

Natural uranium or depleted uranium that is unirradiated; 

Natural uranium or depleted uranium that has been irradiated in thermal reactors only; 

Material with fissile nuclides less than a total of 0.25 g; 

Any combination of (a), (b) and/or (c).

These exclusions are only valid if there is no other material with fissile nuclides

in the package or in the consignment if shipped unpackaged.

Uranium-233, Uranium-235, Plutonium-239 and Plutonium-241.

A freight container that has an internal volume of more than 3 cubic metres (m3).

Uranium and thorium ores and concentrates of such ores; and other ores containing naturally occurring radionuclides which are intended to be processed for the use of these radionuclides; 

Natural uranium, depleted uranium, natural thorium or their compounds or mixtures, providing they are unirradiated and in solid or liquid form; 

Radioactive material or nuclear material for which the A_2 value is unlimited, excluding fissile material in quantities not excepted as specified in the Twentieth Schedule; or

Other radioactive material or nuclear material in which the activity is distributed throughout, and the estimated average specific activity does not exceed 30 times the values for activity concentration as determined by the NRRC, excluding fissile material in quantities not excepted as specified in the Twentieth Schedule.

Water with tritium concentration up to 0.8 terabecquerel per liter (TBq/l); or 

Other material in which the activity is distributed throughout the material and the estimated average specific activity does not exceed 10^(-4)  A_2/g for solid and gases, and 10^(-5)  A_2/g for liquids.

Solids, excluding powders, in which-

The radioactive material or nuclear material is distributed throughout a solid or a collection of solid objects, or is essentially uniformly distributed in a solid compact binding agent such as concrete, bitumen or ceramic;

The estimated average specific activity of the solid, excluding any shielding material, does not exceed 2×10^(-3)  A_2/g.

Low toxicity alpha emitters are natural uranium, depleted uranium, natural thorium, uranium-235, uranium-238, thorium-232, thorium-228 and thorium-230 when contained in ores or physical and chemical concentrates; or alpha emitters with a half-life of less than 10 days.

The maximum pressure above atmospheric pressure at mean sea level that would develop in the containment system in a period of one year under the conditions of temperature and solar radiation corresponding to environmental conditions in the absence of venting, external cooling by an ancillary system, or operational controls during transport.

Uranium which may be chemically separated containing the naturally occurring distribution of uranium isotopes (approximately 99.28% uranium-238 and 0.72% uranium-235 by mass).

A package which does not meet one or more of the requirements of this Specific Regulation with respect to a package.

Conditions that prevail during routine transport similar to the conditions simulated by tests specified in Part III of the Seventeenth Schedule with respect to a package.

The collections, transmission, and delivery of any postal article.

A person who has special knowledge in the safety measures required in handling of radioactive material or nuclear material, and in the decontamination of things contaminated by radioactive material or nuclear material and who is approved by the NRRC.

a freight container that has an internal volume of not more than 3 cubic metres (m3).

Incapable of reaching criticality.

is a solid object on which-

the non-fixed contamination on the accessible surface averaged over 300 square centimetres (cm2) (or the area of the surface if less than 300 cm2) does not exceed 4 Bq/cm2 for beta and gamma emitters and low toxicity alpha emitters, or 0.4 Bq/cm2 for all other alpha emitters; 

the fixed contamination on the accessible surface averaged over 300 square centimetres (cm2) (or the area of the surface if less than 300 cm2) does not exceed 4 x 104 Bq/cm2 for beta and gamma emitters and low toxicity alpha emitters, or 4 x 103 Bq/cm2 for all other alpha emitters; and

the non-fixed contamination plus the fixed contamination on the inaccessible surface averaged over 300 square centimetres (cm2)(or the area of the surface if less than 300 cm2) does not exceed 4 x 104 Bq/cm2 for beta and gamma emitters and low toxicity alpha emitters, or 4 x 103 Bq/ cm2 for all other alpha emitters.

is a solid object on which either the fixed or the non-fixed contamination on the surface exceeds the applicable limits specified for SCO-I but-

(a) the non-fixed contamination on the accessible surface averaged over 300 square centimetres (cm2)(or the area of the surface if less than 300 cm2 ) does not exceed 400 Bq/cm2 for beta and gamma emitters and low toxicity alpha emitters, or 40 Bq/cm2 for all other alpha emitters; 

(b) the fixed contamination on the accessible surface averaged over 300 square centimetres (cm2)(or the area of the surface if less than 300 cm2) does not exceed 8 x 105 Bq/cm2 for beta and gamma emitters and low toxicity alpha emitters, or 8 x 104 Bq/cm2 for all other alpha emitters; and

(c) the non-fixed contamination plus the fixed contamination on the inaccessible surface averaged over 300 square centimetres (cm2)(or the area of the surface if less than 300 cm2) does not exceed 8 x 105 Bq/cm2 for beta and gamma emitters and low toxicity alpha emitters, or 8 x 104 Bq/cm2 for all other alpha emitters.

is a large solid object which, because of its size, cannot be transported in a type of package described in this Regulation and for which: 

(a) All openings are sealed to prevent release of radioactive material during conditions defined in Article 101; 

(b) The inside of the object is as dry as practicable; 

(c) The non-fixed contamination on the external surfaces does not exceed the limits specified in Article 40; 

(d) The non-fixed contamination plus the fixed contamination on the inaccessible surface averaged over 300 cm2 does not exceed 8 x 105 Bq/cm2 for beta and gamma emitters and low toxicity alpha emitters, or 8 x 104 Bq/cm2 for all other alpha emitters.

The activity of a radionuclide per unit mass of that nuclide or the activity of a material per unit mass of that material in which the radionuclides are essentially uniformly distributed.

A document accompanying a package being transported and containing all the necessary information as specified in Article 107 and Article 108.

A number which is used to provide control over radiation exposure that is assigned to a package, overpack or freight container or to unpackaged LSA-I or SCO-I or SCO-III.

A plan that shall be prepared by consignor for the transportation of SCO-III.

Thorium containing not more than 10-7 grams (g) of uranium-233 per gram of thorium-232.

Uranium containing not more than 2 x 103 becquerels (Bq) of plutonium per gram of uranium-235, not more than 9 x 106 Bq of fission products per gram of uranium-235 and not more than 5 x 10-3 g of uranium-236 per gram of uranium-235.