This Safety Guide provides recommendations and guidance on achieving and demonstrating compliance with IAEA Safety Standards Series No. SSR-6 (Rev. 1), Regulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Material (2018 Edition), which establishes the requirements to be applied to the national and international transport of radioactive material. Transport is deemed to comprise all operations and conditions associated with and involved in the movement of radioactive material, including the design, fabrication and maintenance of packaging, and the preparation, consigning, handling, carriage, storage in transit, shipment after storage and receipt at the final destination of packages. The Advisory Material is not a stand-alone text. It is to be used concurrently as a companion to the IAEA Safety Standards Series No. SSR-6 (Rev. 1) and each paragraph of this guide is numbered correspondingly to the paragraph of the Regulations to which it most directly relates.

• Section I: INTRODUCTION
  • Background
  • Objective
  • Scope
• References to Section I
• Section II: DEFINITIONS
• References to Section II
• Section III: GENERAL PROVISIONS
  • Radiation protection
  • Emergency response
  • Management system
  • Compliance assurance
  • Non-compliance
  • Special arrangement
  • Training
• References to Section III
• Section IV: ACTIVITY LIMITS AND CLASSIFICATION
  • General provisions
  • Basic radionuclide values
  • Determination of basic radionuclide values
  • Classification of material
  • Classification of packages
• References to Section IV
• Section V: REQUIREMENTS AND CONTROLS FOR TRANSPORT
  • Requirements before the first shipment
  • Requirements before each shipment
  • Transport of other goods
  • Other dangerous properties of contents
  • Requirements and controls for contamination and for leaking packages
  • Requirements and controls for transport of excepted packages
  • Requirements and controls for transport of LSA material and SCOs in industrial packages or unpackaged
  • Determination of transport index (TI)
  • Determination of criticality safety index for consignments, freight containers and overpacks
  • Limits on transport index, criticality safety index and dose rates for packages and overpacks
  • Categories
  • Marking, labelling and placarding
  • Consignor’s responsibilities
  • Transport and storage in transit
  • Customs operations
  • Undeliverable consignments
  • Retention and availability of transport documents by carriers
• References to Section V
• Section VI: REQUIREMENTS FOR RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL AND FOR PACKAGINGS AND PACKAGES
  • Requirements for radioactive material
  • Requirements for material excepted from fissile classification
  • General requirements for all packagings and packages
  • Additional requirements for packages transported by air
  • Requirements for industrial packages
  • Requirements for packages containing uranium hexafluoride
  • Requirements for Type A packages
  • Requirements for Type B(U) packages
  • Requirements for Type B(M) packages
  • Requirements for Type C packages
  • Requirements for packages containing fissile material
  • Determination of criticality safety index (CSI) for packages
• References to Section VI
• Section VII: TEST PROCEDURES
  • Demonstration of compliance
  • Tests for special form radioactive material
  • Tests for low dispersible radioactive material (LDRM)
  • Tests for packages
• References to Section VII
• Section VIII: APPROVAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS
  • General
  • Approval of special form radioactive material and low dispersible radioactive material (LDRM)
  • Approval of package designs
  • Transitional arrangements
  • Notification and registration of serial numbers
  • Approval of shipments
  • Approval of shipments under special arrangement
  • Competent authority approval certificates
  • Contents of certificates of approval
  • Validation of certificates
• References to Section VIII
• Appendix I THE Q SYSTEM FOR THE CALCULATION AND APPLICATION OF A1 AND A2 VALUES
• Appendix II HALF-LIFE AND SPECIFIC ACTIVITY OF RADIONUCLIDES, DOSE AND DOSE RATE COEFFICIENTS OF RADIONUCLIDES AND SPECIFIC ACTIVITY
• Appendix III EXAMPLE CALCULATIONS FOR ESTABLISHING MINIMUM SEGREGATION DISTANCES
• Appendix IV PACKAGE STOWAGE AND RETENTION DURING TRANSPORT
• Appendix V GUIDELINES FOR THE SAFE DESIGN OF PACKAGES AGAINST BRITTLE FRACTURE
• Appendix VI CRITICALITY SAFETY ASSESSMENTS
• Appendix VII GUIDANCE FOR CALCULATION OF ACTIVITY INTAKE FOR TRANSPORT OF SCO-III
• Appendix VIII TRANSPORT UNDER SPECIFIC SITUATIONS
• CONTRIBUTORS TO DRAFTING AND REVIEW