Content of funded decommissioning programmes5.

(1)

A person who submits a funded decommissioning programme must show separately in that programme the estimates of the costs likely to be incurred in connection with—

(a)

the disposal of intermediate level waste and spent fuel; and

(b)

all other designated technical matters.

(2)

In this regulation—

“intermediate level waste” means radioactive waste—

(a)

which has a level of radioactivity above four gigabecquerels per tonne (GBq/te) of alpha activity or twelve GBq/te of beta or gamma activity; and

(b)

which does not generate heat which needs to be taken into account in the design of storage or disposal facilities;

“spent fuel” means nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in and permanently removed from a reactor core.