This Act is enacted to regulate nuclear reactor facilities in order to protect the public safety; matters not provided for herein shall be applied to the provisions under other relevant laws/statutes and decrees.

In this Act, the terminology mentioned herein shall be respectively defined as follows:
1."Nuclear reactor" shall denote the nuclear fuel-loaded apparatus which may cause the controllable self-sustained chain reaction of nuclear fission.
2."Nuclear reactor facilities" shall denote the nuclear reactor and the relevant buildings and equipment appendant thereto.
3."Research nuclear reactor" shall denote the nuclear reactor which is designed or used primarily for education, researches or experiment.
4."Off-commissioning" shall denote the nuclear reactor facilities which have been designedly ceased operating for more than one year consecutively.
5."Decommissioning" shall denote that after the permanent cessation of operation of nuclear reactor facilities, the various measures that shall be implemented to enable that facilities and the site to be developed and utilized again.
6."Licensee" shall denote an entity who or which has been approved by the competent authorities to operate nuclear reactor facilities.
7."Exclusion area" shall denote the area surrounding the nuclear reactor facilities, where an individual located at any point on its boundary for two hours immediately following onset of the postulated fission product release would not receive radiation dose in excess of the limits prescribed by the competent authorities.
8."Low population zone" shall denote the area immediately surrounding the exclusion area that an individual located at any point on its outer boundary would not receive radiation dose in excess of the limits prescribed by the competent authorities.

The competent authorities referred to in this Act shall be the Atomic Energy Council, Executive Yuan.