Australian Naval Nuclear Power Safety Regulations 2025
59Radiation monitoring boundaries and exclusion zones
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59 Radiation monitoring boundaries and exclusion zones
Radiation monitoring boundaries
(1) It is a condition that the licence holder must have set boundaries for the radiation monitoring of the regulated activity that:
(a) ensure nuclear safety; and
(b) are as proposed at the time of making the decision to issue the licence, as changed from time to time by the licence holder:
(2) It is a condition that the licence holder undertake radiation monitoring of the activity within the boundaries in accordance with the radiation protection plan for the activity.
Note: For the radiation protection plan, see section 60.
Exclusion zones
(3) It is a condition that the licence holder must set one or more exclusion zones around the boundary of the area in which the regulated activity is conducted that:
(a) ensure nuclear safety; and
(b) are as proposed at the time of making the decision to issue the licence, as changed from time to time by the licence holder:
(4) It is a condition applying to both the licence holder and any other person authorised to conduct the regulated activity that the licence holder or other person must enforce the exclusion zones.
(a) it is a condition that the licence holder must, on the day the Act commences, provide information and documents that describe and document the set boundaries and the exclusion zones to the Regulator; and
(b) paragraph (1)(b) applies as if the reference to the set boundaries as proposed at the time of making the decision to issue the licence were a reference to the set boundaries as described and documented in the information and documents provided to the Regulator on the day the Act commences; and
(c) paragraph (3)(b) applies as if the reference to the exclusion zones as proposed at the time of making the decision to issue the licence were a reference to the exclusion zones as described and documented in the information and documents provided to the Regulator on the day the Act commences.
Subdivision B—Conditions relating to nuclear management system, arrangements and plans for the activity
60 Nuclear safety management system, arrangements and plans for the conduct of the activity
(1) It is a condition that the regulated activity is conducted in accordance with each of the following:
(a) a nuclear safety management system;
(b) arrangements for organisational and human control of the activity;
(c) a regulatory compliance plan;
(d) a supply chain management plan;
(e) a nuclear safety plan;
(f) a radiation protection plan;