The Justification Decision (Generation of Electricity by the UK ABWR Nuclear Reactor) Regulations 2015

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 2015/209

2015No. 209

HEALTH AND SAFETY

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

The Justification Decision (Generation of Electricity by the UK ABWR Nuclear Reactor) Regulations 2015

11thFebruary2015

12thFebruary2015

This instrument is made in accordance with the requirements of regulation 14(1) of the Justification of Practices Involving Ionising Radiation Regulations 2004( 1).

The Secretary of State has consulted the persons required to be consulted under regulation 18 of those Regulations and such other persons as the Secretary of State considered it appropriate to consult and has taken such steps as the Secretary of State considered appropriate to bring the proposed decision contained in this instrument to the attention of any person likely to be affected by the decision.

A draft of this instrument was laid before Parliament and approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.

The Secretary of State is designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972( 2) in relation to the making of measures relating to basic safety standards for the health protection of the general public and workers against the dangers of ionising radiation( 3).

Accordingly, the Secretary of State, in the exercise of the powers conferred by that section, makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Justification Decision (Generation of Electricity by the UK ABWR Nuclear Reactor) Regulations 2015 and come into force on the day after the day on which they are made.

Interpretation

2. In these Regulations-

"the 1996 Directive" means Council Directive 96/29/Euratom laying down basic safety standards for the protection of the health of workers and the general public against the dangers arising from ionizing radiation( 4);

"class or type of practice" bears the same meaning as it bears under Article 6(1) of the 1996 Directive;

"justified" in relation to a class or type of practice means justified by its economic, social or other benefits in relation to the health detriment it may cause;

"spent fuel" means nuclear fuel that has been irradiated in and permanently removed from a reactor core;

"the UK ABWR practice" means the class or type of practice which is the generation of electricity from nuclear energy using oxide fuel of low enrichment in fissile content in a light water-cooled, light water moderated thermal reactor known as UK ABWR designed by Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, Ltd( 5)...

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