Law of Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage

In this Law, the following terms shall have the meanings assigned thereto, unless the context requires otherwise: Kingdom: Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Government: Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Law: Law of Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage. Implementing Regulations: Implementing Regulations of the Law. Authority: Nuclear and Radiation Control Authority. Convention: 1963 Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage, and the 1997 Protocol amending it. Liability: Civil liability for nuclear damage. Person: Any natural or corporate person. Operator: Any person licensed by the Authority to operate a nuclear installation. Transporter: Any person licensed by the Authority to carry nuclear materials. Preventive Measures: Any measures taken by any person upon the occurrence of a nuclear incident, subject to the law of the State where the measures were taken, to prevent or minimize the nuclear damage resulting therefrom. Reinstatement Measures: Any measures approved by the competent authorities of the State where the measures were taken to reinstate or restore the damaged or destroyed components of the environment owing to a nuclear incident. Special Drawing Rights (SDR): The unit of account defined by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and used by it for its own operations and transactions. Nuclear Fuel: Any material capable of producing energy by a self-sustaining chain process of nuclear fission. Radioactive Products or Waste: Any radioactive material produced during the production or utilization of nuclear fuel or any material made radioactive by incidental exposure to radiation during the production or utilization of nuclear fuel, but shall not include radioisotopes which have reached the final stage of fabrication so as to be usable for any scientific, medical, agricultural, commercial or industrial purpose. Nuclear Material: nuclear fuel, other than natural uranium or depleted uranium, capable of producing energy by a self-sustaining chain process of nuclear fission outside a nuclear reactor, either alone or in combination with some other material, and including radioactive products or waste. Law of Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Nuclear Reactor: Any structure containing nuclear fuel in such an arrangement that a self-sustaining chain process of nuclear fission can occur therein without an additional source of neutrons. Nuclear Installation: Any nuclear reactor other than one with which a means of sea or air transport is equipped for use as a source of power, whether for propulsion thereof or for any other purpose; any factory using nuclear fuel for the production of nuclear material, or any factory for the processing of nuclear material, including any factory for the re-processing of irradiated nuclear fuel; and any facility where nuclear material is stored, other than storage incidental to the carriage of such material, including other facilities which contain nuclear fuel or radioactive products or waste, as determined by the Authority Nuclear Incident: Any occurrence or series of occurrences having the same origin which causes nuclear damage or creates a grave and imminent threat of causing such damage.