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What does Nuclear site mean?
In legal practice, a nuclear site is a location used for nuclear installations that is, or was, covered by a nuclear site licence, and it remains a nuclear site until the licensee’s “period of responsibility” has formally ended. In Great Britain, this term is defined in the Nuclear Installations Act 1965 and administered by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR). It captures both currently licensed sites and sites where a licence has been revoked or surrendered but decommissioning, safety and liability obligations continue. Usage is broadly consistent across England and Wales and Scotland. Northern Ireland presently has no licensed nuclear sites. In Ireland, there is no equivalent nuclear site licensing regime; the term is used descriptively in radiological protection and cross‑border contexts. Key features and significance: it triggers ONR licensing conditions, nuclear safety and security requirements, decommissioning controls and the statutory civil liability framework. It also affects planning, environmental permitting and transactional due diligence. For specified statutory regimes dealing with contaminated or derelict land, a nuclear site is expressly not treated as land in a contaminated state or land in a derelict state for those purposes. Search terms: nuclear site licence, ONR, Nuclear Installations Act 1965, period of responsibility, decommissioning, nuclear liability.
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