This Act is enacted to administer radioactive material, prevent radioactive hazard and secure public safety; matters not provided for herein shall be applied to other relevant laws/statutes and(/or)** decrees.

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

The "radioactive material"** referred to in this Act means nuclear source material, nuclear fuel and(/or) radioactive waste.

In this Act, the terminology used herein shall be defined as follows:
1."Nuclear source material" means ores of uranium (and/)or thorium, etc., and(/or) any other materials designated by the competent authorities.
2."Nuclear fuel" means the material that shall generate energy through self-sustained chain reaction of fission of nucleus, and(/or) any other materials designated by the competent authorities.
3."Radioactive waste" means the discarded material that is radioactive or is contaminated by radioactive substance, including the spent nuclear fuel ready for final disposal.
4."Nuclear safeguard" means the relevant administrative measures prescribed to execute the international prevention of proliferation of nuclear weapon.
5."Final disposal" means the permanent isolation treatment of radioactive waste.
6."Decommission" means after the permanent cease of operation (and/)or utilization of production (and/)or storage facilities of nuclear source material (and/)or nuclear fuel, and(/or) of treatment (and/)or storage facilities of radioactive waste, the various measures that are implemented to enable that facilities and(/or) the land resource to be re-developed and(/or) utilized again.
7."Closure" means facilities of final disposal receive no further radioactive waste and complete necessary measures of de-contamination, overburden and shutdown, etc.
8."Institutional control" means after the closure of facilities of final disposal, the necessary measures to be executed for maintenance, administration, environmental radiation monitoring and(/or) prevention of external intrusion, et al.
9."Operator" means an entity who or which has been designated or approved by the government (agencies) to operate production (and/)or storage facilities of nuclear source material (and/)or nuclear fuel, and(/or) of treatment, storage or final disposal facilities of radioactive waste; or has been approved by the government (agencies) to hold or utilize the radioactive material.

If any of the registered items under the license issued according to this Act has been changed, the licensee shall apply for the registration of amendment within the time limit prescribed by the competent authorities.

Unless permitted by the competent authorities, the following facilities and(/or) the land where facilities are located, the license and(/or) the rights vested in the license, which are (is) administered in accordance with this Act, shall not be assigned, leased, lent, pledged or mortgaged:
1.Production (and/)or storage facilities of nuclear source material (and/)or nuclear fuel(; and/or)
2.Treatment, storage (and/)or final, disposal facilities of radioactive waste.

The competent authorities, being accompanied by the inspector(s), under the supervision thereof, dispatched by the foreign or international atomic energy organizations, may execute various inspections and(/or) monitorings according to the relevant nuclear safeguard treaties or agreements executed by and between this country and foreign countries (and/)or international atomic energy organizations, and may ask the operator to submit designated materials; wherein, the inspection fees for nuclear safeguard to be paid to the international atomic energy organizations shall be borne by the operator of facilities.
The regulations for the nuclear safeguard operation referred to in the preceding Paragraph shall be prescribed by the competent authorities.