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SSG-49
Decommissioning of Medical, Industrial and Research Facilities
Footnotes
1The term ‘facility’ means buildings and their associated land and equipment, including the surface and subsurface soil, and any surface or subsurface water or aquifers. In this Safety Guide, the term ‘facility’ is used with a limited scope to refer to medical, industrial and research facilities.
2The term ‘permanent shutdown’, as used in this Safety Guide, means that the facility has ceased operations and operation will not be recommenced.
3The term ‘safe enclosure’ means the period during the implementation of the deferred dismantling strategy in which the facility is placed and maintained in a safe, long term storage condition until decontamination and dismantling actions are performed.
4In certain States, the term ‘operating licence’ may encompass the licence to conduct decommissioning; in some cases, the operating licence may need only to be amended to cover all regulatory aspects pertaining to decommissioning.
5INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY, Decommissioning of Medical, Industrial and Research Facilities, IAEA Safety Standards Series No. WS-G-2.2, IAEA, Vienna (1999).
6The term ‘environmental impact assessment’ is included in many international instruments and national legislation and regulations. In the context of IAEA Safety Standards Series No. GSG-10, Prospective Radiological Environmental Impact Assessment for Facilities and Activities [17], an environmental impact assessment refers to a procedure within a governmental decision making process for identifying, describing and assessing prospectively the effects, and the risk of effects, of a particular proposed activity or facility on aspects of environment significance.
7Secondary radioactive waste is a by-product of the processing of primary radioactive waste.
8The review of the environmental impact assessment might be the responsibility of a national authority other than the regulatory body.
9The definition of the funding mechanism might be the responsibility of other governmental organizations.
10A safety assessment is typically a stand-alone supporting document to the final decommissioning plan. It is summarized and referenced in the final decommissioning plan. However, for simple facilities, the safety assessment may be included as one chapter of the final decommissioning plan.
Suggested Structure and Content of a Final Decommissioning Plan and Supporting Documents1Public information on arrangements for physical protection and for accounting for and control of nuclear material that is included in the decommissioning plan does not contain sensitive security information. The section on accounting for and control of nuclear material is usually not applicable to most medical, industrial and research facilities.
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- Publication type:Specific Safety Guide
- Publication number: SSG-49
- Publication year: 2019