Radiological Protection Ordinance
(RPO)

¹ Dis­charge to the en­vir­on­ment com­prises, in par­tic­u­lar, land­filling, dis­pos­al with do­mest­ic waste, dis­charge in ex­haust air and wastewa­ter, in­cin­er­a­tion, re­use or de­liv­ery to a re­cyc­ling fa­cil­ity.

²Only low-level ra­dio­act­ive waste may be dis­charged to the en­vir­on­ment.

³Ra­dio­act­ive waste may only be dis­charged to the en­vir­on­ment with a li­cence and un­der the su­per­vi­sion of the li­cence hold­er.

4 It may only be dis­charged to the en­vir­on­ment by the li­cence hold­er without the ap­prov­al of the li­cens­ing au­thor­ity and without spe­cif­ic li­cens­ing in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 112 para­graph 2 if:

a.

the max­im­um am­bi­ent dose rate at a dis­tance of 10 cm from the sur­face, al­low­ing for nat­ur­al ra­di­ation, is less than 0.1 µSv per hour;

b.

the re­quire­ment spe­cified in Art­icle 106 para­graph 2 is met; and

c.

the total activ­ity per week and li­cence is not great­er than the activ­ity of 10 kg of a ma­ter­i­al whose spe­cif­ic activ­ity is equal to the clear­ance lim­it.

5 Pri­or to the dis­charge of ra­dio­act­ive waste, la­bels, haz­ard warn­ing sym­bols or oth­er mark­ings in­dic­at­ing ra­dio­activ­ity must be re­moved.