The Radioactive Material (Road Transport) Regulations 2002

Requirements and controls for the transport of LSA material and SCO in industrial packages or unpackaged

43.—(1) This regulation has effect for the purpose of imposing the requirements for, and the controls with respect to, the transport of LSA material or SCO in a single—

(a) industrial package Type 1;

(b) industrial package Type 2; or

(c) industrial package Type 3.

(2) The quantity of the material described in paragraph (1), or (as the case may be) of an object or collection of objects, must be so restricted that the external radiation level at 3 m from the unshielded material or object or collection of objects does not exceed 10 mSv/h.

(3) LSA material and SCO in groups LSA-I and SCO-I may be transported unpackaged under the following conditions—

(a) all unpackaged material (other than ores containing only naturally occurring radionuclides) must be transported in such manner that under routine conditions of transport there will—

(i) be no escape of the radioactive contents from the conveyance, nor

(ii) any loss of shielding;

(b) each conveyance must be under exclusive use (except if it is transporting only SCO-I on which the contamination on the accessible and inaccessible surfaces does not exceed 10 times the applicable level specified in the definition of “contamination” in regulation 2(2)); and

(c) in the case of SCO-I, where it is suspected that non-fixed contamination exists on inaccessible surfaces that exceeds the values specified in (a)(i) of the definition of “SCO” in regulation 2(2), measures must be taken so as to ensure that the radioactive material is not released into the conveyance.

(4) Except as provided in paragraph (3), LSA material and SCO must be packaged in accordance with Table IV in Schedule 1.

(5) The total activity in a conveyance for the carriage of LSA material or SCO in Type IP-1, Type IP-2, Type IP-3 or unpackaged must not exceed the limits specified in Table V of Schedule 1.