4 General stowage requirements
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4 General stowage requirements

  4.1 Unless authorized under special arrangements by the regulatory authority:

  • .1 the radiation doses levels likely to be encountered from any package, “overpack”, freight container or tank in a port area should not exceed 2 mSv/h at the external surface or 0.1 mSv/h at 2 metres from the surface of any conveyance used in routine transport; and

  • .2 the total number of packages, overpacks, freight containers or tanks aboard a single conveyance or a single stack in a port area should be so limited that the total sum of the transport indices does not exceed 50.

  4.2 The total sum of the transport indices of any individual group of packages, overpacks, freight containers or tanks stowed in a port area should not exceed 100. An intervening space of at least 6 m should be left between groups. A number of stacks may be included in the same group.

  4.3 Stowage of packages, overpacks, freight containers and tanks aboard ships shall be in accordance with the requirements for class 7 set out in chapter 7.1 of the IMDG Code.

  4.4 Segregation provisions for packages, overpacks, freight containers and tanks aboard ships shall be in accordance with the requirements of class 7 set out in chapter 7.2 of the IMDG Code.

Parent topic: Annex 3 - Segregation of Radioactive Materials on Shore (7.1.16.3)
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