Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the following persons shall be eligible to apply to the Central Government for a licence for the purposes of setting up any of the facilities or undertaking the activities specified in sub-section (2), namely:-- (a) any Department of the Government of India or any institution or authority or corporation established or owned or controlled by such Government; (b) any Government company; (c) any other company; (d) a joint venture among any of the aforesaid; or (e) any other person expressly permitted by the Central Government, by notification, to set up such facilities or undertake such activities. (2) The licence referred to in sub-section (1) shall be mandatory for setting up or undertaking the following facilities and activities for the production, use and disposal of nuclear energy, namely:-- (a) build, own, operate or decommission a nuclear power plant or reactor; (b) the fabrication of nuclear fuel including conversion, refining and enrichment of uranium-235 up to such threshold value, or production, use, processing or disposal of other prescribed substance, as may be notified by the Central Government; (c) the transportation or storage of nuclear fuel or spent fuel or any other prescribed substance; (d) the import, export, acquisition, or possession of nuclear fuel or prescribed substance; (e) the import, export, acquisition or use of prescribed equipment; (f) the import or export of any technology or software, that may be used for the development, production or use of prescribed substance or prescribed equipment; or (g) any other facilities or activities as may be notified by the Central Government. (3) The facilities or activities requiring a licence under this section shall also require a safety authorisation if such facilities or activities are likely to subject an individual to radiation exposure, as may be specified by regulations. (4) While setting up the facilities or undertaking the activities referred to in sub-section (2),-- (a) the source material and fissile material in any form, produced within India or imported, shall remain under the surveillance and control of the Central Government for the purposes of accounting; and shall be subject to such safeguards as may be specified by the Central Government; (b) the spent fuel shall be safely stored for a cooling period of such duration to be determined by the Board or for such further duration as the Central Government may direct, before being delivered to the Central Government for its subsequent management or repatriated to the country of origin; (c) the heavy water used in a nuclear facility shall remain under the supervision of the Central Government for the purposes of accounting; and shall be delivered back to it after its intended use or as directed by the Central Government, and the cost of delivery and subsequent management of spent fuel or its repatriation under clause (b) and delivery of heavy water under clause (c), as may be determined by the Central Government, shall be borne by the licensee. (5) The following facilities and activities shall be set up or undertaken exclusively by the Central Government or any institution or factory wholly owned by it, namely:-- (a) the enrichment or isotopic separation of prescribed substance or radioactive substance, unless otherwise notified by the Central Government in this behalf; (b) the management of spent fuel, including reprocessing, recycling, separation of radionuclides contained therein and management of high-level radioactive waste arising thereof; (c) the production of heavy water and its upgradation by isotopic separation; (d) any other facilities or activities as may be notified by the Central Government.