Abstract
On 4 November 1993 the Assembly of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) adopted the Code for The Safe Carriage of Irradiated Nuclear Fuel, Plutonium, and High-level Radioactive Wastes in Flasks on board Ships. The Code was recommended for adoption by a Joint IAEA/IMO/UNEP Working Group and sets standards for the survival capability of ships carrying those materials. It aims to complement the packaging requirements and the shipment procedures imposed by the IAEA's Regulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Material and IMO's International Maritime Dangerous Goods Code (IMDG-Code). The Joint Working Group also considered a number of issues related to accidents at sea, accident statistics, risk studies and emergency response. The Group concluded that all the available information demonstrates very low levels of radiological risk and environmental consequences from the marine transport of radioactive material. In this paper the details of the Code and the highlights of the deliberations regarding marine transport of radioactive material are discussed.
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