Radiological Protection Ordinance
(RPO)

1 Com­bust­ible ra­dio­act­ive waste may, with the ap­prov­al of the li­cens­ing au­thor­ity, be in­cin­er­ated at thermal waste treat­ment plants in ac­cord­ance with the Waste Or­din­ance of 4 Decem­ber 2015³⁸ if:

a.

com­pli­ance with the clear­ance lim­it can be demon­strated by mon­it­or­ing of activ­ity con­cen­tra­tions or cal­cu­la­tion of the pos­sible con­tam­in­a­tion of in­cin­er­a­tion residues;

b.

the ra­dio­act­ive waste only con­tains the ra­di­o­nuc­lides H-3 or C-14; and

c.

the activ­ity ap­proved for in­cin­er­a­tion per week does not ex­ceed 1000 times the li­cens­ing lim­it.

2 In jus­ti­fied cases, the li­cens­ing au­thor­ity may ap­prove the in­cin­er­a­tion of com­bust­ible ra­dio­act­ive waste con­tain­ing ra­di­o­nuc­lides oth­er than those spe­cified in para­graph 1 let­ter b.