General Nuclear Safety and Control Regulations

19 The following facilities are prescribed as nuclear facilities for the purpose of paragraph (i) of the definition nuclear facility in section 2 of the Act:

• (a) a facility for the management, storage or disposal of waste containing radioactive nuclear substances at which the resident inventory of radioactive nuclear substances contained in the waste is 10¹⁵ Bq or more;

• (b) a plant for the production of deuterium or deuterium compounds using hydrogen sulphide; and

• (c) a facility that consists of

  • (i) an irradiator that uses more than 10¹⁵ Bq of a nuclear substance,

  • (ii) an irradiator that requires shielding which is not part of the irradiator and that can deliver radiation at a dose rate exceeding 1 centigray per minute at 1 m,

  • (iii) a radioactive source teletherapy machine, or

  • (iv) a brachytherapy machine.