The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025

Amendment of schedule 8 (radioactive substances activities)

39.  In schedule 8 (radioactive substances activities)—

(a) in paragraph 1—

(i) the current paragraph becomes sub-paragraph (2),

(ii) before sub-paragraph (2) as renumbered, insert—

“(1) This schedule applies to radioactive substances activities.”,

(b) in paragraph 2—

(i) for sub-paragraph (1)(d), substitute—

“(d) the disposal of radioactive waste at a landfill or at a waste incineration plant or waste co-incineration plant where—

(i) the radioactive waste may be disposed of in solid waste that is not radioactive waste in accordance with the general binding rules in Chapter 1 of schedule 9, and

(ii) the radioactive waste has not been segregated from waste that is not radioactive waste,”,

(ii) for sub-paragraph (1)(e), substitute—

“(e) the disposal of radioactive waste described in paragraph 6(1)(a) or (b) in a landfill or at a waste incineration plant or waste co-incineration plant where the activity of the radioactive waste does not exceed the concentrations specified in schedule 9, Part 3, Table 1, Column 2.”,

(c) in paragraph 3, omit the definitions of “PPC permit” and “waste management licence”,

(d) in paragraph 4—

(i) in sub-paragraph (1)—

(aa) in the definition of “disposal”, in the opening words, before “includes”, insert “, in relation to radioactive waste,”,

(bb) after the definition of “disposal” insert—

““high-activity sealed source” means a sealed source where the activity of the contained radionuclide is equal to or exceeds the relevant activity value laid down in Table 4,”,

(cc) in the definition of “nuclear site”, renumber paragraph (e) as (a), and paragraph (f) as (b),

(dd) after the definition of “radioactive substance” insert—

““sealed source” means a radioactive source in which the radioactive substance is permanently sealed in a capsule or incorporated in a solid form with the objective of preventing under normal conditions of use, any dispersion of radioactive substances.”,

(ii) in sub-paragraph (2), before “waste” each time it appears, insert “radioactive”,

(e) in paragraph 5, omit the definitions of “high-activity sealed source” and “sealed source”,

(f) in paragraph 6(4), after “radioactive”, insert “,”,

(g) in paragraph 13(b), before “waste” the second time it appears, insert “radioactive”,

(h) in paragraph 14(2)—

(i) omit head (a),

(ii) in head (b), after “site”, insert “arising from the operation or decommissioning of that nuclear site”,

(i) in paragraph 18—

(i) in sub-paragraph (1), before “waste” each time it appears, insert “radioactive”,

(ii) in sub-paragraph (3), for “high-activity sealed source” substitute “sealed source in IAEA Categories 1 to 4”,

(j) in paragraph 19—

(i) after “unless”, insert—

“—”,

(ii) from “the activity” to the end becomes sub-paragraph (a),

(iii) at the end of new sub-paragraph (a), insert—

“insofar as those regulations apply to the activity, or

(b) it is an existing class or type of practice.”,

(k) in paragraph 22(2), after “carried on”, insert “at”,

(l) in paragraph 23(c)(vii), before “waste”, on each occasion it appears, insert “radioactive”,

(m) in paragraph 26—

(i) for the heading, substitute “General Principles of Radiological Protection: Optimisation and Dose Limitation”,

(ii) in sub-paragraph (2), after “individual”, insert “member of the public”,

(iii) for sub-paragraph (4)(a) substitute—

“(a) ICRP publication 144: Dose Coefficients for External Exposures to Environmental Sources(1)”,

(n) in paragraph 27(1), after “doses”, insert “to an individual member of the public”,

(o) in paragraph 36(1)—

(i) in the opening words, before “waste” the second place it occurs, insert “radioactive”,

(ii) in head (a), before “waste”, insert “radioactive”,

(p) in Part 6, in column 2 of Table 4—

(i) for “6 x 10 -2” in each place it appears, substitute—

“6 x 10^-2”,

(ii) for “2 x 10 -2”, substitute—

“2 x 10^-2”,

(iii) for “5 x 10 – 2”, substitute—

“5 x 10^-2”,

(iv) for “3 x 10 -2”, substitute—

“3 x 10^-2”,

(v) for “1 x 10 -1”, substitute—

“1 x 10^-1”,

(vi) for “1 x 10 0”, in each place it appears, substitute—

“1”,

(vii) for “8 x 10 -2”, substitute—

“8 x 10^-2”,

(viii) for “4 x 10 1”, substitute—

“4 x 10^1”,

(ix) for “4 x 10 – 2”, substitute—

“4 x 10^-2”,

(x) for “2 x 10 -1”, substitute—

“2 x 10^-1”,

(xi) for “2 x 10 1”, substitute—

“2 x 10^1”,

(xii) “3 x 10 – 1”, substitute—

“3 x 10^-1”.

(1)

ICRP, 2020. Dose Coefficients for external exposures to environmental sources. ICRP Publication 133. Ann. ICRP 49(2).