In the application of the provisions of the Law hereof, and in spite of what was stipulated in any other Legistlation, the following words and expressions shall have the meanings set out opposite to each of them unless the context requires otherwise:

The State: State of the United Arab of Emirates

The Authority: Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation

The International Agency: The International Atomic Energy Agency

The Operator: The person licensed by the Authority to operate a nuclear facility and which is named in the licensing issued according to the foregoing Decree by Federal Law No. 6 of 2009.

The Nuclear Fuel: Any material that is capable of generating energy by a self sequential nuclear fission.

Radioactive Products or Waste: Any radioactive material produced out of the processes of the usage or production of nuclear fuel, or any material that becomes radioactive as a result of being exposed to radiations that emit from such processes. The afore mentioned does not include the radioisotopes that had reached the final stage of manufacture for the usage in any scientific, medical, agricultural, commercial or industrial purpose.

Nuclear Materials:

1. Any nuclear fuel, apart from the natural and depleted uranium, that is capable of generating energy solely or with other materials by self sequential nuclear fission without the nuclear reactor.

2. Radioactive products and waste.

The Nuclear Reactor: Any structure that contains nuclear fuel that is arranged in a manner that allows self sequential fission therein without the need of additional source of neutrons.

The Nuclear Facility:

1. Any nuclear reactor apart from the nuclear reactors that the maritime or air means of transportation are supplied with in order to be a source of driving powers, or that are used for other purposes.

2. Any factory that uses nuclear fuel to produce nuclear materials, or any other factory that processes nuclear materials including the reprocesses of nuclear fuel after the saturation thereof.

3. Any facility that stores nuclear materials apart from the same that stores nuclear materials during transportation.

4. Other facilities that contain nuclear materials or saturated products or waste according to the stipulations of the International Agency Board of Governors from time to time.

The nuclear facilities that are affiliated to one operator in one location shall be deemed as one nuclear facility.

Nuclear Damages: 

1. Decease or personal injury.

2. Loss or damage of properties.

3. Economic losses arising from losses or damages that are not listed in the above mentioned Paragraphs 1 or 2 that are incurred on a person who shall have the right in requesting reimbursement on such losses or damages.

4. The expenses of the measures of resetting the damaged environment unless such damage was slight, if such measures were actually taken or intended to be taken and to the extent which is not stipulated in the above mentioned Paragraph 2.

5. Loss of the income resulting from an economic benefit from the usage of the environment of the enjoyment therein, incurred as a result of a severe damage incurred thereon and to the extent which is not stipulated in the above mentioned Paragraph 2.

6. The expenses of precautionary measures and every other loss or damage caused by such measures.

7. Any other economic losses apart from the same resulting from the damage of environment, and so according to the extent of the losses and damages referred to in Clauses 1 to 5 and 7 mentioned above arising or resulting from the ionized radiations emitted from any other source of radiation inside a nuclear facility, or emitted from nuclear fuel or radiated waste or products existing inside a nuclear facility, or that are attributed to nuclear materials received or resulting from a nuclear facility or delivered to the same and whether they were resulting from radiological properties of such materials, a mixture thereof and of toxic and explosive properties or other dangers of such materials.

The Cabinet may issue the instructions related to the execution of Clauses 1 to 7

The nuclear accident: Any accident or series of accidents arising from one origin, causing nuclear damages, imminent or serious threatens of causing such damages in regard to the precaution measures.

Special Drawing Rights SDRs: The unit of account as determined by the World Monetary Fund and used thereby in the transactions and operation thereof.

Vienna Convention of 1997: The unified text of Vienna Convention of 1963 as amended and attached to the protocol of amending Vienna Convention concerning the civil liability for nuclear damages dated on 12 September 1997.