1. 2-6 June 2014 Panama City, Panama
Regional Workshop for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Material in the Caribbean Module IAEA Regulations, UN Orange Book and International Modal Regulations
2-6 June 2014 Panama City, Panama
Chris Bajwa
Transport Safety Unit
Regulatory Infrastructure and Transport Safety Section
Division of Radiation, Transport and Waste Safety Department of Nuclear Safety and Security

2. Overview Delivering societal developments
IAEA Regulations for Safe Transport
Scope
Basic Safety Concept
Revision

3. Transport model to deliver societal benefits of RAM (This is what we Move Towards)
Delivery of societal benefits (B)
Worker and public confidence (8)
International cooperation / collaboration (7)
Future trends and challenges (6)
National regulator oversight / intervention (5)
Industry compliance with regulatory requirements (4)
Regulatory infrastructures of Member States (3)
Transport Regulations (2)
An overview of transport of radioactive material (1)
Societal needs (A)

4. Regulations – IAEA Safety Standards Hierarchy (2)
Safety Fundamentals
Safety Requirements
Safety Guides

5. Regulations – IAEA Safety Standards (2)
IAEA TS-G-1.1
Advisory Material
IAEA TS-G-1.2
Emergency response
Radiation protection programmes
IAEA TS-G-1.3
IAEA TS-G-1.4
Management System
GSR Part 1
IAEA TS-G-1.5
Compliance assurance
IAEA TS-G-1.6
Schedules
SSR 6 (2012)
Guidance Documents
GSR Part 3

6. Regulations – The international regulatory framework (2)
Mainly Package design approval Regulators / some Transport Regulators
All 9 Dangerous Goods Classes - All modes
SSR 6 (2012)
Class 7 - All modes
Some countries
Road, Rail and Inland Waterway
Sea
Air

7. Regulations – IAEA SSR-6 (2)
Prescriptive requirements - revised on biennial basis
Supported by Advisory Material – aids consistent interpretation
Global, multi-modal but not mandatory
All 137 IAEA Member States can participate
Transposed into UN Model Regulations
Text does not look like UN or modal texts
No guidance for UN or modal provisions, so legal texts need to address everything
Modes take Class 7 provisions from UN, not from SSR-6
Few UN national delegations include Class 7 experts

8. Regulations – SSR-6 (2) Objective of SSR-6 (para 104)
… is to establish requirements that must be satisfied to ensure safety and to protect persons, property and the environment from the effects of radiation in the transport of radioactive material. This protection is achieved by requiring:
Containment of the radioactive contents;
Control of external radiation levels;
Prevention of criticality;
Prevention of damage caused by heat.
No routeing or physical protection controls are specified - these may be implemented for reasons other than radiological safety

9. Regulatory approach (SSR-6 para 106)
Regulations – SSR-6 (2)
Regulatory approach (SSR-6 para 106)
A graded approach is applied in specifying the performance standards which are characterized in terms of three general severity levels:
(a) Routine conditions of transport (incident free);
(b) Normal conditions of transport (minor mishaps);
(c) Accident conditions of transport.

10. Regulations – SSR-6 Definitions (2)
‘Transport’ (SSR-6 para 106)
… Transport comprises all operations and conditions associated with, and involved in, the movement of radioactive material; these include the design, manufacture, maintenance and repair of packaging, and the reparation, consigning, loading, carriage including in-transit storage, unloading and receipt at the final destination of loads of radioactive material and packages.
Radioactive material (SSR-6 para 235)
…..any material containing radionuclides where both the activity concentration (Bq/g) and the total activity in the consignment (Bq) exceed the values specified in paras

11. SSR-6 Graded approach (2)
The performance criterion of a package type depends upon its permitted contents (A1 and A2)
In IAEA SSR6 the following categories are defined [CA approved]:
Excepted packages
Industrial packages Type (IP-1, IP-2, IP-3) [ IF for fissile material]
Type A package [ AF for fissile material]
Type B(M), Type B(U) package [ B(U)F and B(M)F for fissile material]
Type C package [ CF for fissile material]
Type H(U) [ H(U)F for fissile material]
Type H(M) [ H(M)F for fissile material]
Shipment approval (T)
Special arrangement (X)
Low specific activity (LSA-I, LSA-II and LSA-III)
Surface contaminated objects (SCO-I, SCO-II)
Special Form (S)
Low Dispersible Radioactive Material (LDRM)

12. SSR-6 Consignment limits (2)
Activity Limits Packaging Type Accumulation of Packages
and Classification and Consignment Limits
Activity Content (Bq) Package Type Limits TI / CSI
Activity Concentration (Bq/g) Package Requirements Dose rates
Solid, Liquid or gas Package Certification unshielded (3m)
Radionuclide(s) Special Form surface
Activity Content (A1, A2) Radiometric survey m / 2m
Temperature
Contamination
I-White, II & III Yellow

13. Regulations – UN Model Regulations (2)
UNITED NATIONS SUB-COMMITTEE OF EXPERTS on the transport of dangerous goods
A body established by ECOSOC (UN Economic and Social Council) in 1957

14. Regulations – UN Model Regulations (2)
Was originally the UN Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods
Now a sub-committee of UN Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods and on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals
Originally consisted of ‘experts’ drawn from countries with demonstrable expertise and interest in the transport of dangerous goods

15. Regulations – UN Model Regulations (2)
Draws up non-mandatory ‘Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods’ for all modes of transport throughout the world
Written in the form of ‘Model Regulations’ for international and national legislation
Known as the ‘Orange Book’

16. Regulations – UN Model Regulations (2)
Makes decisions by simple majority voting - not by consensus
Currently 27 voting countries, increasing geographical representation but European dominated
Non-voting countries and inter-governmental organisations can attend as ‘observers’
International trade associations in UN consultative status may also attend
Currently working on the 19th - revised edition (18th) taking effect from 1 January 2014
Works on 2 year revision cycle
Meets in Palais des Nations in Geneva each June and December
Ad hoc Working Groups meet (inter-session) if required

17. Regulations – International framework (2)
Modal Regulations
UN Model Regulations
IAEA SSR6 (2012)
State variations

18. Questions?
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