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Australian Naval Nuclear Power Safety Regulations 2025
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This item is authorised by the following title:
Australian Naval Nuclear Power Safety Act 2024
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F2025L01226
03 October 2025
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Part 1—Introduction
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Division 1—Preliminary
1 Name
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Definitions
5 Meaning of derived activity value and activity
6 Parent nuclides and progeny nuclides included in secular equilibrium
7 Meaning of effective dose, equivalent dose and absorbed dose
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Division 2—Core provisions
8 Stirling designated zone
9 Osborne designated zone
10 Activity level for radioactive waste management facility to be an NNP facility
11 Activities that are not material activities
12 Non-ionising radiation-producing equipment or plant that is NNP equipment or plant
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Part 2—Making an application for licence authorising facility activity or material activity
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Division 1—Preliminary
13 Simplified outline of this Part
14 Application of this Part
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Division 2—Information and documents to be provided with application
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Subdivision A—Purpose of this Division
15 Information and documents to be provided with application relating to facility activity or material activity
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Subdivision B—Application relating to any kind of facility activity or material activity
16 General information relating to the regulated activity
17 General conduct of the activity
18 Resources for the safe conduct of the activity
19 Office holder with control of activity
20 Radiation monitoring boundaries and exclusion zones
21 Nuclear safety management system, arrangements and plans for the conduct of the activity
22 Records management system
23 Treatment of clearance material
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Subdivision C—Application relating to a facility activity—additional information and documents
24 Additional information and documents—any kind of facility activity
25 Additional information and documents—activity of preparing a site for an NNP facility in a designated zone
26 Additional information and documents—activity of constructing an NNP facility in a designated zone
27 Additional information and documents—activity of having possession or control of an NNP facility in a designated zone
28 Additional information and documents—activity of operating an NNP facility in a designated zone
29 Additional information and documents—activity of decommissioning an NNP facility in a designated zone
30 Additional information and documents—activity of disposing of an NNP facility in a designated zone
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Subdivision D—Application relating to a material activity—additional information and documents
31 Additional information and documents for any kind of material activity—general
32 Additional information and documents for any kind of material activity—transport management and movement plans
33 Additional information and documents—activity of having possession or control of NNP material or NNP equipment or plant in a designated zone
34 Additional information and documents—activity of using NNP material in a designated zone
35 Additional information and documents—activity of using or operating NNP equipment or plant in a designated zone
36 Additional information and documents—activity of maintaining, storing or disposing of NNP material or NNP equipment or plant in a designated zone
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Division 3—Manner of giving application
37 Manner of giving an application
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Division 4—Further information Regulator may require in connection with application
38 Further information the Regulator may require
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Part 3—Matters to be satisfied of or taken into account in issuing licence authorising facility activity or material activity
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Division 1—Preliminary
39 Simplified outline of this Part
40 Matters the Regulator must be satisfied of or take into account in issuing licence authorising facility activity or material activity
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Division 2—Matters to be satisfied of or taken into account
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Subdivision A—Licence authorising any kind of facility activity or material activity
41 General matters the Regulator must be satisfied of
42 General matters the Regulator must take into account
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Subdivision B—Licence authorising facility activity—additional matters
43 Additional matters—any kind of facility activity
44 Additional matters—activity of preparing a site for an NNP facility in a designated zone
45 Additional matters—activity of having possession or control of an NNP facility in a designated zone
46 Additional matters—activity of operating an NNP facility in a designated zone
47 Additional matters—activity of decommissioning an NNP facility in a designated zone
48 Additional matters—activity of disposing of an NNP facility in a designated zone
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Subdivision C—Licence authorising material activity—additional matters
49 Additional matters—any kind of material activity
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Part 4—Conditions applying to licence authorising facility activity or material activity
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Division 1—Preliminary
50 Simplified outline of this Part
51 Application of this Part
52 Conditions to which a licence authorising a facility activity or material activity is subject
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Division 2—Conditions applying to licence authorising any kind of facility activity or material activity
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Subdivision A—General conditions relating to the conduct of the regulated activity
53 General conduct of the regulated activity
54 Adequate resources for the safe conduct of the regulated activity
55 Changes to the conduct of the regulated activity and to systems, arrangements, designs and plans
56 Conducting the regulated activity
57 Nuclear safety site induction
58 Warning placards and warning devices
59 Radiation monitoring boundaries and exclusion zones
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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
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Subdivision C—Conditions relating to reporting, record keeping, audit and review
61 Records management system
62 Information and documents on request
63 Reporting—potential serious impacts and breaches
64 Reporting—incidents
65 Reporting—holdings of radioactive waste awaiting disposal
66 Reporting—change of office holder with control of activity
67 Reporting—final report for final period of licence
68 Nuclear safety management system, arrangements, plans and records management system must be audited and reviewed
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Subdivision D—Conditions relating to dose limits
69 Dose limits
70 Dose limits—facility activity
71 Dose limits—activity of having possession or control of NNP material or NNP equipment or plant
72 Effective dose limits for ionising radiation
73 Effective doses
74 Annual equivalent dose limit for ionising radiation
75 Occupationally exposed persons
76 Reporting—increases in radiation exposure
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Division 3—Additional conditions applying to licence authorising facility activity
77 Additional conditions for any kind of facility activity—risk levels and activity levels
78 Additional conditions for any kind of facility activity—sale, transfer or abandonment of a site, NNP facility or proposed NNP facility
79 Additional conditions—activity of preparing a site for an NNP facility in a designated zone
80 Additional conditions—activity of constructing an NNP facility in a designated zone
81 Additional conditions—activity of having possession or control of an NNP facility in a designated zone
82 Additional conditions—activity of operating an NNP facility in a designated zone
83 Additional conditions—activity of decommissioning an NNP facility in a designated zone
84 Additional conditions—activity of disposing of an NNP facility in a designated zone
85 Additional conditions—general requirements for plans required under this Division
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Division 4—Additional conditions applying to licence authorising material activity
86 Additional conditions for any kind of material activity—maintaining inventory, information and documents
87 Additional conditions for any kind of material activity—storing, managing and handling NNP material or NNP equipment or plant
88 Additional conditions for any kind of material activity—field exercises
89 Additional conditions for any kind of material activity—transport or movement of naval nuclear propulsion plant
90 Additional conditions for any kind of material activity—transport of NNP material and NNP equipment or plant only as approved
91 Additional conditions for any kind of material activity—transport management and movement plans
92 Additional conditions for activity of having possession or control of NNP material or NNP equipment or plant—sale, transfer or abandonment
93 Additional conditions for activity of having possession or control of NNP material or NNP equipment or plant—plan for possession or control
94 Additional conditions—activity of using NNP material in a designated zone
95 Additional conditions—activity of using or operating NNP equipment or plant in a designated zone
96 Additional conditions—activity of maintaining, storing or disposing of NNP material or NNP equipment or plant in a designated zone
97 Additional conditions—general requirements for certain plans required under this Division
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Division 5—Additional conditions applying to transitional licences
98 Preliminary
99 Additional conditions—information and documents relating to application for ARPANS licence
100 Additional conditions—enforcement actions relating to ARPANS licence
101 Additional conditions—information and documents relating to ARPANS licence on request
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Part 5—Nuclear safety incidents
102 Simplified outline of this Part
103 Kinds of incidents that are nuclear safety incidents
104 Information to be given in report of a nuclear safety incident
105 Actions after initial report of a nuclear safety incident
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Part 6—Suspension of licences and review of licence decisions
106 Simplified outline of this Part
107 Period of licence suspension
108 Information to be included in application for review of licence decision
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Part 7—Other matters
109 Simplified outline of this Part
110 Annual report—other matters to be included
111 State and Territory laws that do not apply in relation to a regulated activity
112 Obligations under international agreements that a person must have regard to when performing functions under the Act
113 Application for exemption from a provision of Act or licence condition
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Schedule 1—Designated zones
1 Stirling designated zone (the area known as HMAS Stirling at Garden Island in Western Australia)
2 Osborne designated zone (the area known as Osborne Naval Shipyard in South Australia)
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Schedule 2—Activity values for nuclides
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Part 1—Activity values for nuclides
1 Activity values for nuclides
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Part 2—Parent and progeny nuclides
2 Parent nuclides and progeny nuclides