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NUCLEAR ACTIVITIES (PROHIBITIONS) ACT 1983 - SECT 2 Definitions

NUCLEAR ACTIVITIES (PROHIBITIONS) ACT 1983 - SECT 2

Definitions

In this Act unless inconsistent with the context or subject-matter—

"conversion" means the transformation of fertile material into fissile material;

"enrichment", in relation to fissile material, means any process by which the proportion of an isotope is increased in relation to the natural abundance of the isotope;

"exploration" means searching for uranium or thorium ore bodies using either radiometric or other survey techniques;

"fabrication of fuel" means any process or step in the transformation of fissile material into a form suitable for use in a nuclear reactor;

"facility" means a reactor, a critical facility, a conversion plant, a fabrication plant, a reprocessing plant, an isotope separation plant or a separate storage installation;

"fertile material" means any substance which is capable of being transformed into fissile material;

"fissile material" means a substance capable of undergoing nuclear fission;

S. 2 def. of mining title amended by Nos 92/1990

s. 128(Sch. 1 item 21.1(a)(b)), 67/1995 s. 58 (Sch. 1 item 12), 96/1998 s. 257(5), 7/2005 s. 172, 63/2006 s. 61(Sch. item 25.1), 61/2008 s. 321, 6/2009 s. 55.

"mining title" means any lease, licence, permit or other authority issued or granted under the Geothermal Energy Resources Act 2005 , the Greenhouse Gas Geological Sequestration Act 2008 , the Mineral Resources (Sustainable Development) Act 1990 , or the Petroleum Act 1998 , whether marked out, registered, issued or granted before or after the commencement of this Act;

"nuclear activities" means any procedure or operation involved in the mining, milling, conversion, enrichment, fabrication, use, reprocessing or disposal of nuclear material;

"nuclear fission" means the splitting of a nucleus into two more or less equal fragments;

"nuclear fuel cycle" includes any process or step in the utilization of fissile material, including its ultimate disposal;

"nuclear material" means any radioactive substance associated with the nuclear fuel cycle, including fertile and fissile material, spent fuel and waste;

"nuclear power reactor" means a nuclear reactor designed for the generation of electricity;

"nuclear reactor" means a reactor designed to produce controlled nuclear fission;

"reprocessing" means the chemical separation of spent fuel;

s pent fuel means any fuel which has been partly consumed in a nuclear reactor;

"waste" means any unwanted radioactive material derived from nuclear activities.