The Radioactive Material (Road Transport) (Great Britain) Regulations 1996

Regulation 8

SCHEDULE 10 Additional requirements and controls for transport of LSA material and SCO in industrial packages and requirements and controls for transport of unpackaged LSA material and SCO

1.  The quantity of LSA material or SCO in a single industrial package Type 1 (IP-1), industrial package Type 2 (IP-2), industrial package Type 3 (IP-3), or object or collection of objects, whichever is appropriate, shall be so restricted that the external radiation level at 3 metres from the unshielded material or object or collection of objects does not exceed 10 mSv/h.

2.  LSA material and SCO which is or contains fissile material shall meet the applicable requirements of Schedule 7.

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 shall be transported in such a manner that under conditions likely to be encountered in routine transport there will be no escape of the contents from the conveyance nor will there be any loss of shielding;

(b) each conveyance shall be under exclusive use, except when only transporting SCO-I on which the contamination on the accessible and the inaccessible surfaces is not greater than ten times the applicable level specified in table III of Schedule 36; and

(c) for SCO-I where it is suspected that non-fixed contamination exists on inaccessible surfaces in excess of the values specified in paragraph (i) of the definition of “SCO-I” in regulation 2(1) measures shall be taken to ensure that the radioactive material is not released into the conveyance.

4.  LSA material and SCO, except as otherwise specified in paragraph 3, shall be packaged in accordance with the package integrity levels specified in Table V of Schedule 36. LSA-II, LSA-III and SCO-II shall not be transported unpackaged.

5.  The total activity of LSA material and SCO in any single conveyance shall not exceed the limits shown in Table VI of Schedule 36.