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

Regulation 32(1)

SCHEDULE 33 Stowing for transport

1.  Consignments shall be securely stowed.

2.  During stowage, packages, overpacks, freight containers and tanks shall be sufficiently segregated from undeveloped photographic film.

3.  In the case of undeveloped photographic film the basis for determining segregation distances shall be that the radiation exposure of undeveloped photographic film due to the transport of radioactive material be limited to 0.1 mSv per consignment of such film.

4.  Provided that its average surface heat flux does not exceed 15 W/m² and that the immediately surrounding cargo is not in sacks or bags, a package or overpack may be carried among packaged general cargo without any special stowage provisions except as may be specifically required by the Secretary of State in an applicable approval certificate.

5.  Except in the case of shipment under special arrangement, mixing of packages of different kinds of radioactive material, including fissile material, and mixing of different kinds of packages with different Transport Indexes (TI) is permitted without the specific approval of the Secretary of State. In the case of shipments under special arrangement, mixing shall not be permitted except as specifically authorised under the special arrangement.