Military regulatory authorities

The stakeholders. We need to identify the problem owners/decision makers who have a stake in the assessment. These will include the project manager, the client, the regulatory authorities be they military (e.g. MoD) or civilian (e.g. CAA), the independent safety auditors and the internal departments/teams and subcontractors. The success of the safety assessment requires a close working relationship and mutual understanding between all these stakeholders... 

Under certain circumstances the safety criteria may be amended to suit the specific programme requirements (e.g. UAV safety criteria, or Military Operational Safety Criteria). However, this is subject to substantiation and agreement by the applicable regulatory authority, thus the declaration of the safety criteria (either in a separate safety criteria report, or as part of a safety plan or an early release of a preliminary system safety assessment). 

It should be noted that specifications, regulatory and safety standards are promulgated by a wide variety of organizations, including national standards committees, military forces, transportation authorities and insurance underwriters. 

Statutory and Regulatory Definitions. The earliest statutory definitions of transuranic waste were contained in AEA (1954), the National Security and Military Applications of Nuclear Energy Authorization Act (NSMA, 1980), and the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act (LLRWPA, 1980). All of these laws defined transuranic waste in terms of concentrations of long-lived, alpha-emitting... 

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