2015-03 Medical Radioactive Waste Management MIT_en (1)

Medical Radioactive
Waste Management
Transportation aspects
in Italy
Rome, March 24th, 2015
presented by:
Roberto Vespa
Technical Director
MIT Nucleare
Italy
Summary
Transportation of medical waste in Italy – general
aspects.
General regulatory regime for radioactive transportation.
Modal specific regulatory regime for radioactive
transportation.
Some Examples.
Radioactive material applications in Italy
Medicine (diagnosi & therapy)
Industry
Research
Electric power generation (decommissioning)
All these applications generate
Radioactive Waste
All Wastes must be transported
Some examples from medical use
Decommissioning of therapy equipment no more in use
Source replacement for therapy apparatous
Some examples from medical use
Radioactive sources disposal
Some examples from medical use
Disposal of activated material from linear accelerator and cyclotron
Some examples from medical use
Disposal of radioactive wastes from nuclear medicine applications
Let’s focus on…
regulatory regime for radioactive transportation in
Italy
General regulatory regime for radioactive
transportation
Modal specific regulatory regime
for radioactive transportation
General regulatory regime for radioactive transportation
In Italy, the regulatory regime for nuclear
and radioactive transportation is based on:
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Law No.1860 of 31 December 1962
Legislative Decree No. 230 of 17
March 1995
General regulatory regime for radioactive transportation
The first, Framework Law No. 1860 of 31
December 1962:
“Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy”
introduced a general regime based on a series
of procedural requirements such as
notifications and licences
(also for the transport)
General regulatory regime for radioactive transportation
The second, basic text is Legislative Decree
No. 230 of 17 March 1995. This Decree
mainly deals with matters related to the
safety of nuclear installations and the
protection of workers, population and
environment against the hazards of ionising
radiation.
This Decree provided, inter alia, for the
implementation of the applicable Euratom
Directives/Regulations.
General regulatory regime for radioactive transportation
With regard to the “transportation”, we mainly refer to art.
21 of Legislative Decree No. 230 of 17 March 1995:
Art. 21:
Per il trasporto delle materie di cui all'articolo 5 della
legge 31 dicembre 1962, n. 1860, e successive modifiche
e integrazioni, effettuato in nome proprio e per conto altrui,
oppure in nome e per conto proprio, ancorché avvalendosi i
mezzi altrui dei quali si abbia la piena responsabilità e
disponibilità, restano ferme le disposizioni ivi contenute.
Nelle autorizzazioni previste da dette disposizioni, rilasciate
sentiti l'ANPA e il Ministero dell'interno, possono essere
stabilite particolari prescrizioni definite dall'ANPA.
Con decreti del Ministro dei trasporti e della navigazione,
sentita l'ANPA, sono emanate le norme regolamentari per
i diversi modi di trasporto, anche in attuazione delle
direttive e raccomandazioni dell'Unione europea e degli
accordi internazionali in materia di trasporto di merci
pericolose.
I soggetti che effettuano il trasporto di cui al comma 1 sono
tenuti ad inviare all'ANPA un riepilogo dei trasporti
effettuati con l'indicazione delle materie trasportate. Con
Decreto del Ministro dell'industria, del commercio e
dell'artigianato, sentita l'ANPA, sono stabiliti i criteri
applicativi di tale disposizione, le modalità, i termini di
compilazione e di invio del riepilogo suddetto, nonché gli
eventuali esoneri.
Key points on application of Art. 21:
The transport Company must be licensed (art.5 of
1860/62 as modified) with a Decree issued by the
Ministry of Industry in conjunction with the
Ministries concerned >> Authorized carrier.
The Authorized carrier can use “subcontractors”
under its complete availability and responsibility.
The licence is for all mode of transport >> road,
rail, air, sea, inland waterway.
The authorized carrier must send a quarterly
notification of the performed transports.
The licence is not compulsory only in very few
cases with particular contingencies >> from the
practical point of view: it’s always applicable (even
for excepted packages).
Modal regulations for radioactive transportation
IMDG
ICAO
ADR
RID
Road
Rail
ADN
Transport
Transport
Sea and inland water-way
European modal regulations
IATA DGR
Air
Transport
Worldwide modal regulations
Example of domestic transport documents for wastes
Tanks for your kind attention
MIT NUCLEARE
Via Artigianato, 12
20061, Carugate (MI) – Italia
www.mitnucleare.it
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Ing. Roberto Vespa
[email protected]
cell.
(+39) 338 21 97 619
tel.
(+39) 02 92 15 92 29
fax
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