These Regulations are enacted pursuant to Article 21 of the Nuclear Materials and Radioactive Waste Management Act.

The terms used in these Regulations are defined as follows:
1. Thermal treatment of radioactive waste: using high temperature methods such as incineration and melting to treat the radioactive waste.
2. Containers: the vessels used to store or disposal the radioactive waste.
3. Maintenance: the operations such as removal of rust, repainting, repacking, and re-solidifying in case of rust and erosion of the containers of radioactive waste or deterioration of radioactive waste.
4. Stabilizing treatment: the treatment to make radioactive waste reach condition stabilizing in physical state and chemical properties.

Treatment and storage of radioactive waste shall meet the provisions of the Ionization Radiation Protection Act.