Does the transportation of LLW put the community at risk of radiation exposure?
No. When transporting LLW, the risks to the community of exposure to dangerous levels of radiation are negligible. It is important to realise that LLW is far less radioactive than many other radioactive materials that are currently regularly transported on Australian roads, such as radiopharmaceuticals and radioisotopes used in industry. Radioactive materials are used for a wide variety of beneficial purposes in Australia and around the world. Licensed radioactive sources within NSW are used in medicine, industry, agriculture, the environment and elsewhere. Many of those sources – particularly those used in industrial radiography (e.g. checking the integrity of oil pipelines or aircraft engines) – are mobile, being moved around the state as required. An individual industrial radiography source is typically much more active than an entire truckload of low-level waste. The use and transport of such sources in NSW by persons other than Commonwealth agencies is regulated by the NSW Departm
