Section 3Sec./Art. 3

Definitions. As used in this Act:

(a) "Commission" means the Philippine Atomic Energy Commission.

(b) The term "atomic energy facility" means any equipment or device which the Commission may determine from time to time, by regulation, to be capable of producing or utilizing energy material in such quantity or in such manner as to be of significance to the national interest or to the health and safety of the public.

(c) "Atomic energy material" means "source material", "special fissionable material" and any other radioactive material.

(d) The term "individual operator" means any individual who manipulates the controls of an atomic energy facility.

(e) "Installation operator" means the person licensed by the Commission as the operator of that installation. If no person is licensed by the Commission as the operator of the installation and the installation is operated by or for the Commission, "installation operator" shall be deemed to mean the Commission.

(f) "Nuclear Damages" means loss of, life, any personal injury or any loss, or damages to, or loss of use of property, which arises out of or results from the radioactive, toxic, explosive or other hazardous properties, or any combination thereof, of nuclear fuel or radioactive products or any waste in, or of nuclear materials coming from, originating in, or sent to, a nuclear installation or from the ionizing radiation emitted by any other sources of radiation inside a nuclear installation. "Personal injury" as used herein means any physical or mental injury (including death), sickness or disease whether caused directly by a physical trauma or otherwise."

(g) "Nuclear fuel" means any material which is capable of producing energy by a self-sustaining chain process of nuclear fission.

(h) "Nuclear incident" means any occurrence or series of occurrences having the same origin which causes nuclear damage.

(i) "Nuclear installation" means (1) any nuclear reactor other than one with a means of sea or air transport is equipped for use as a source or power, whether for propulsion or of any other purposes: (2) any factory using nuclear fuel for the production of nuclear material, or any factory for the processing of nuclear materials, including any factory for the re-processing of irradiated nuclear fuel; and (3) any facility where nuclear material is stored, other than storage incidental to the carriage of such material.

(j) "Nuclear materials" means (1) nuclear fuel, other than natural uranium and depleted uranium, capable of producing energy by a self-sustaining chain process of nuclear fission outside a nuclear reactor, either alone or in combination with some other materials; and (2) radioactive products or waste.

(k) "Nuclear reactor" means any structure containing nuclear fuel in such an arrangement that a self-sustaining chain process of nuclear fission can occur therein without an additional source of neutron.

(l) "Person" means any individual, partnership, private or public body whether corporate or not, Government agency other than the Commission, any international organization enjoying legal personality under the law where the nuclear installation is situated, and any State or any of its constituent subdivisions; any legal successor, representative, agent or agency of the foregoing.

(m) "Radioactive products or waste" means any radioactive material produced in, or any material made radioactive by exposure to the radiation incidental to, the production or utilization of nuclear fuel, but does not include nuclear fuel, or radioisotopes which have reached the final stage of fabrication so as to be usable for any scientific, medical or agricultural, commercial or industrial purpose.

(n) The term "source material" means uranium containing the mixture of isotopes occurring in nature, uranium, depleted in the isotope 235; thorium; any of the foregoing in the form of metal, alloy, chemical compound, or concentrate and other material containing one or more of the foregoing in such concentration as the Commission may from time to time determine.

(o) The term "special fissionable material" means plutonium-239, plutonium-241, uranium-233, uranium-235, any material containing one or more of the foregoing, and such other fissionable material as the Commission shall from time to time determine; but the term "special fissionable material" does not include source material.

(p) The term "individual" means a natural person.

PART II

General Authority of the Commission