1The term ‘environmental impact assessment’ is used here in a broad sense. In some States, the term denotes a specified process covering all potential impacts of the project, with a view to soliciting acceptance of a project from all relevant authorities, and which often involves participation of the public.

2An operational intervention level is a calculated level, measured by instruments or determined by laboratory analysis, which corresponds to an interventional level or action level. It is typically expressed in terms of dose rates or activity of radioactive material released, time integrated air concentrations, ground or surface concentrations, or activity concentrations of radionuclides in environmental, food or water samples [20].