The Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016

Interpretation: NORM

2.—(1) In this Part, “ NORM waste” means a substance or article which is solid radioactive waste under—

(a) paragraph 4 of Part 2 of this Schedule, or

(b) except where sub-paragraph (2) applies, paragraph 5 of that Part where the waste arises from the remediation of land.

(2) Land is not contaminated under sub-paragraph (1)(b) where the land is on a site in respect of which a nuclear site licence is or has been in force and the contamination occurred—

(a) when that licence was in force, or

(b) before that licence was granted, when the site was used for the purpose of installing or operating an installation described in subsection (1) of section 1 of the Nuclear Installations Act 1965(1) or in regulations made under that subsection.

(3) In these Regulations, “NORM waste concentration” means, in respect of radionuclides contained in NORM waste, the sum of the concentrations of the single radionuclide with the highest concentration in each of the natural decay chains beginning with—

(a) U-238,

(b) U-235, and

(c) Th-232.

(1)

1965 c. 57; section 1 was substituted by paragraph 17 of Part 2 of Schedule 12 to the Energy Act 2013 (c. 32).