IAEA Draft Safety Guide: DS546 Ageing Management and Maintenance of Packages for the Transport of Radioactive Material

Overview

ARPANSA coordinates comments on behalf of Australia on IAEA draft documents.

Link to IAEA Draft Safety Guide: DS546

The IAEA is seeking comments from their member states on the draft IAEA Safety Guide DS546 Ageing Management and Maintenance of Packages for the Transport of Radioactive Material.

The draft text has been prepared as a draft Safety Guide to be issued in the IAEA Safety Standards Series.

The draft text has already been reviewed through consultants meetings as well as the Transport Safety Standards Committee (TRANSSC), the Radiation Safety Standards Committee (RASSC), the Nuclear Safety Standards Committee (NUSSC) and the Waste Safety Standards Committee (WASSC).

Purpose

The objective of this draft text, as accepted by the Commission on Safety Standards (CSS), is to provide recommendations on ageing and maintenance of transport packages in order to ensure compliance with the IAEA Safety Standards Series No. SSR-6 (Rev. 1), Regulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Material, 2018 Edition.

How to make a comment 

You can provide your feedback by completing the online survey available by clicking on the Submit your feedback link under the Have your say section of this page. 

Comments are requested in relation to:

• Relevance and usefulness: Are the stated objectives appropriate, and are they met by the draft text?
• Scope and completeness: Is the scope appropriate, and is it adequately covered by the draft text?
• Quality and clarity: Does the guidance in the draft text represent the current consensus among specialists in the field, and is this guidance expressed clearly and coherently?

Comments of an editorial nature will be considered; however, it should be noted that the draft text will be comprehensively edited by the IAEA Secretariat. Any comments should be made in English, should refer to the relevant paragraph number in the draft text being reviewed, and should propose alternative text where appropriate.

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