The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016

Table 6

27.  The Table 6 referred to in Sections 5 and 7 of this Part is—

Table 6

Radioactive waste: values of quantities and concentrations

Radioactive waste	Maximum concentration of radionuclides	Maximum quantity of radioactivity to be disposed of in the period stated
Solid radioactive waste, with no single item > 4 x 104 Bq	4 x 105 Bq for the sum of all radionuclides per 0.1m3	2 x 108 Bq/year
Solid radioactive waste containing tritium and C-14 only, with no single item > 4 x 105 Bq	4 x 106 Bq of tritium and C-14 per 0.1m3	2 x 109 Bq/year
Individual sealed sources	2 x 105 Bq for the sum of all radionuclides per 0.1m3	1 x 107 Bq/year
Individual sealed sources which are solely radioactive waste because they contain tritium	2 x 1010 Bq of tritium per 0.1m3	1 x 1013 Bq/year
Luminised articles with no single item containing > 8 x 107 Bq of Pm-147 or > 4 x 109 of tritium	8 x 107 Bq per 0.1m3 of Pm-147	2 x 109 Bq/year of Pm-147
	or 4 x 109 Bq per 0.1m3 for tritium	or 1 x 1011 Bq/year of tritium
Solid radioactive waste which consists of magnesium alloy, thoriated tungsten or dross from hardener alloy in which the thorium concentration does not exceed 4% by mass	No limit	No limit
Solid uranium or thorium compound	No limit	0.5kg of uranium or thorium per week
Aqueous liquid uranium or thorium compound	No limit	0.5kg of uranium or thorium per year
Aqueous liquid human excreta	No limit	1 x 1010 Bq/year of Tc-99m
		and
		5 x 109 Bq/year for the sum of all other radionuclides