What are NNP facilities?
12 What are NNP facilities?
An NNP facility (short for naval nuclear propulsion facility) is any of the following facilities:
a facility for constructing an AUKUS submarine;
a facility for maintaining naval nuclear propulsion plant from, or for use on, an AUKUS submarine;
a facility for storing naval nuclear propulsion plant from, or for use on, an AUKUS submarine;
a radioactive waste management facility that:
is for managing, storing or disposing of radioactive waste from an AUKUS submarine; and
has an activity that is greater than the activity level prescribed by the regulations.
Paragraphs (a) to (d) are not necessarily mutually exclusive of each other.
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