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25.2 mm IAEA Safety Standards Safety through international standards for protecting people and the environment IAEA Safety IAEA Standards Series 1) No. TS-G-1.1 (Rev. “The IAEA’s standards have become a key element of the global safety regime for the beneficial uses of nuclear and radiation related technologies. Advisory Material for the “IAEA safety standards are being applied in nuclear power generation as well as in medicine, industry, agriculture, research IAEA Regulations for the and education to ensure the proper protection of people and the environment.” Safe Transport of Mohamed ElBaradei IAEA Director General Radioactive Material Safety Guide No. TS-G-1.1 (Rev. 1) INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY VIENNA ISBN 978–92 –0–101408–5 ISSN 1020–525X 08-06441_P1325_covI-IV.indd 1 2008-08-11 09:24:07 25.2 mm ADVISORY MATERIAL FOR THE IAEA REGULATIONS FOR THE SAFE TRANSPORT OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL Safety standards survey The IAEA welcomes your response. Please see: http://www-ns.iaea.org/standards/feedback.htm The following States are Members of the International Atomic Energy Agency: AFGHANISTAN GREECE NORWAY ALBANIA GUATEMALA PAKISTAN ALGERIA HAITI PALAU ANGOLA HOLY SEE PANAMA ARGENTINA HONDURAS PARAGUAY ARMENIA HUNGARY PERU AUSTRALIA ICELAND PHILIPPINES AUSTRIA INDIA POLAND AZERBAIJAN INDONESIA PORTUGAL BANGLADESH IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF QATAR BELARUS IRAQ REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA BELGIUM IRELAND ROMANIA BELIZE ISRAEL RUSSIAN FEDERATION BENIN ITALY SAUDI ARABIA BOLIVIA JAMAICA SENEGAL BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA JAPAN SERBIA BOTSWANA JORDAN SEYCHELLES BRAZIL KAZAKHSTAN SIERRA LEONE BULGARIA KENYA SINGAPORE BURKINA FASO KOREA, REPUBLIC OF SLOVAKIA CAMEROON KUWAIT SLOVENIA CANADA KYRGYZSTAN SOUTH AFRICA CENTRAL AFRICAN LATVIA SPAIN REPUBLIC LEBANON SRI LANKA CHAD LIBERIA SUDAN CHILE LIBYAN ARAB JAMAHIRIYA SWEDEN CHINA LIECHTENSTEIN SWITZERLAND COLOMBIA LITHUANIA SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC COSTA RICA LUXEMBOURG TAJIKISTAN CÔTE D’IVOIRE MADAGASCAR THAILAND CROATIA MALAWI THE FORMER YUGOSLAV CUBA MALAYSIA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA CYPRUS MALI TUNISIA CZECH REPUBLIC MALTA TURKEY DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC MARSHALL ISLANDS UGANDA OF THE CONGO MAURITANIA UKRAINE DENMARK MAURITIUS UNITED ARAB EMIRATES DOMINICAN REPUBLIC MEXICO UNITED KINGDOM OF ECUADOR MONACO GREAT BRITAIN AND EGYPT MONGOLIA NORTHERN IRELAND EL SALVADOR MONTENEGRO UNITED REPUBLIC ERITREA MOROCCO OF TANZANIA ESTONIA MOZAMBIQUE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ETHIOPIA MYANMAR URUGUAY FINLAND NAMIBIA UZBEKISTAN FRANCE NETHERLANDS VENEZUELA GABON NEW ZEALAND VIETNAM GEORGIA NICARAGUA YEMEN GERMANY NIGER ZAMBIA GHANA NIGERIA ZIMBABWE The Agency’s Statute was approved on 23 October 1956 by the Conference on the Statute of the IAEA held at United Nations Headquarters, New York; it entered into force on 29 July 1957. The Headquarters of the Agency are situated in Vienna. Its principal objective is “to accelerate and enlarge the contribution of atomic energy to peace, health and prosperity throughout the world’’. IAEA SAFETY STANDARDS SERIES No. TS-G-1.1 (Rev. 1) ADVISORY MATERIAL FOR THE IAEA REGULATIONS FOR THE SAFE TRANSPORT OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL SAFETY GUIDE INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY VIENNA, 2008 COPYRIGHT NOTICE All IAEA scientific and technical publications are protected by the terms of the Universal Copyright Convention as adopted in 1952 (Berne) and as revised in 1972 (Paris). The copyright has since been extended by the World Intellectual Property Organization (Geneva) to include electronic and virtual intellectual property. Permission to use whole or parts of texts contained in IAEA publications in printed or electronic form must be obtained and is usually subject to royalty agreements. 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IAEAL 08–00523 FOREWORD by Mohamed ElBaradei Director General The IAEA’s Statute authorizes the Agency to establish safety standards to protect health and minimize danger to life and property — standards which the IAEA must use in its own operations, and which a State can apply by means of its regulatory provisions for nuclear and radiation safety. A comprehensive body of safety standards under regular review, together with the IAEA’s assistance in their application, has become a key element in a global safety regime. In the mid-1990s, a major overhaul of the IAEA’s safety standards programme was initiated, with a revised oversight committee structure and a systematic approach to updating the entire corpus of standards. The new standards that have resulted are of a high calibre and reflect best practices in Member States. With the assistance of the Commission on Safety Standards, the IAEA is working to promote the global acceptance and use of its safety standards. Safety standards are only effective, however, if they are properly applied in practice. The IAEA’s safety services — which range in scope from engineering safety, operational safety, and radiation, transport and waste safety to regulatory matters and safety culture in organizations — assist Member States in applying the standards and appraise their effectiveness. These safety services enable valuable insights to be shared and I continue to urge all Member States to make use of them. Regulating nuclear and radiation safety is a national responsibility, and many Member States have decided to adopt the IAEA’s safety standards for use in their national regulations. For the Contracting Parties to the various international safety conventions, IAEA standards provide a consistent, reliable means of ensuring the effective fulfilment of obligations under the conventions. The standards are also applied by designers, manufacturers and operators around the world to enhance nuclear and radiation safety in power generation, medicine, industry, agriculture, research and education. The IAEA takes seriously the enduring challenge for users and regulators everywhere: that of ensuring a high level of safety in the use of nuclear materials and radiation sources around the world. Their continuing utilization for the benefit of humankind must be managed in a safe manner, and the IAEA safety standards are designed to facilitate the achievement of that goal. EDITORIAL NOTE This Advisory Material is not a standalone text. It only has significance when used concurrently as a companion to the IAEA Safety Standards Series No. TS-R-1, Regulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Material (2005 Edition), denoted henceforth as ‘the Transport Regulations’. To facilitate cross-referral between it and the Transport Regulations, each paragraph of the Advisory Material is numbered correspondingly to the paragraph of the Transport Regulations to which it most directly relates. To distinguish paragraphs of the Advisory Material from those of the Transport Regulations for reference purposes, Advisory Material paragraphs always have a numeral after the decimal point, even when there is only one subparagraph of text. Thus, for example, advice relating to para. 401 of the Transport Regulations should be initially sought under para. 401.1 of the Advisory Material. Integral paragraph numbers which are cited in the text, either alone or accompanied by lower case letters in brackets, should be taken as identifying paragraphs of the Transport Regulations. An appendix, when included, is considered to form an integral part of the standard and to have the same status as the main text. Annexes, footnotes and bibliographies, if included, are used to provide additional information or practical examples that might be helpful to the user. The safety standards use the form ‘shall’ in making statements about requirements, responsibilities and obligations. Use of the form ‘should’ denotes recommendations of a desired option. CONTENTS SECTION I. INTRODUCTION . 1 Background . 1 Objective . 4 Scope . 5 References to Section I . 8 SECTION II. DEFINITIONS . 9 References to Section II . 35 SECTION III. GENERAL PROVISIONS . 37 Radiation protection . 37 Emergency response . 41 Quality assurance . 42 Compliance assurance . 43 Non-compliance . 45 Special arrangement . 47 Training . 48 References to Section III . 50 SECTION IV. ACTIVITY LIMITS AND MATERIAL RESTRICTIONS . 53 Basic radionuclide values . 53 Determination of basic radionuclide values . 55 Contents limits for packages . 57 References to Section IV . 61 SECTION V. REQUIREMENTS AND CONTROLS FOR TRANSPORT . 63 Requirements before the first shipment . 63 Requirements before each shipment . 65 Transport of other goods . 68 Other dangerous properties of contents . 68 Requirements and controls for contamination and for leaking packages . 70 Requirements and controls for transport of excepted packages . 76 Requirements