The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010 No. 675

[F1 SCHEDULE 23 E+W+S Radioactive substances activities

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 23 substituted (1.10.2011) by The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2043), reg. 1(b), Sch. 1

PART 2 E+W+S Interpretation

Radionuclides not of natural terrestrial or cosmic origin in background radioactivity E+W+S

8.— (1) A substance or article is not radioactive material or radioactive waste where—

(a) the substance or article is contaminated as a result of a climatic process, or a combination of such processes, by radionuclides which—

(i) are not of natural terrestrial or cosmic origin; and

(ii) are not present in the substance or article at a concentration that exceeds that found normally in such a substance or article in the United Kingdom;

and

(b) in the absence of such contamination, the substance or article would not otherwise be radioactive material or radioactive waste under this Schedule.

(2) In this paragraph, a “climatic process” includes wind, precipitation and the general circulation of the atmosphere and oceans.]