Section 47Sec./Art. 47

National Policy and Strategy.

(a) A national policy and strategy for radioactive waste and spent fuel management shall be developed and approved at the national level by a presidential issuance, until a law has been promulgated to this effect.

(b) The DENR shall, in coordination with the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute (PNRI), the PhilATOM, and other relevant agencies, identify a minimum area of two hundred (200) hectares as site for the management of low and intermediate level radioactive waste which shall be called "The National Low and Intermediate Level Waste Management Site".

(c) The PNRI shall establish an office tasked to manage the low and intermediate level radioactive waste to be called the "Low and Intermediate Level Radioactive Waste Management Office/Center".

(d) Spent Fuel (SNF) from LWRs and HWRs shall be stored in dry cask after the fuel has been cooled in the spent fuel pool (SNP) for five (5) years from the time it is unloaded from the reactor for replacement. The period to transfer to dry cask shall start on the first (1st) day of the sixth (6th) year and shall not exceed the last day of the seventh (7th) year from the time the fuel assembly has been unloaded from the reactor for replacement. The PhilATOM shall consider the suitability of such storage for other types of nuclear reactors.

(e) The PhilATOM may certify remote dry cask interim storage concrete pads or roofed interim storage facilities located anywhere in the Philippines.

ARTICLE X

OFFENSES, PENALTIES, AND APPEALS