Australian Naval Nuclear Power Safety Act 2024
12What are NNP facilities?
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12 What are NNP facilities?
An NNP facility (short for naval nuclear propulsion facility) is any of the following facilities: (a) a facility for constructing an AUKUS submarine; (b) a facility for maintaining naval nuclear propulsion plant from, or for use on, an AUKUS submarine; (c) a facility for storing naval nuclear propulsion plant from, or for use on, an AUKUS submarine; (d) a radioactive waste management facility that: (i) is for managing, storing or disposing of radioactive waste from an AUKUS submarine; and (ii) has an activity that is greater than the activity level prescribed by the regulations.
Note: Paragraphs (a) to (d) are not necessarily mutually exclusive of each other.