The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2010

[F1Radionuclides not of natural terrestrial or cosmic origin in background radioactivityE+W+S

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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.]

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