IAEA School for Drafting Regulations on Radiation Safety

IAEA School for Drafting Regulations on Radiation Safety – 2018 Ukraine Legal Framework and Regulations for Radiation Safety Presented by: Tetiana Korzyna, chief specialist – state inspector of the Radiation Safety Unit Regulatory Body Name: State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine (SNRIU) Vienna, Austria, 06 – 17 August 2018

Current status of the Radiation Safety Infrastructure q The State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine (SNRIU) is the only one Ukrainian regulatory authority that is competent for radioactive sources safety and security regulation. Provision of the SNRIU (Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine of 20 August 2014 № 363) Provision of the Radiation Safety Unit (order of the SNRIU of 27 June 2017) q SNRIU is independent and reporting to the Government. 2018 IAEA School for Drafting Regulations - Radiation Safety Ukraine

The main basic functions of SNRIU: • Regulation developing (establish safety criteria, requirements and conditions of safety for nuclear energy use, normative documents, standards) • Permission activity (licensing) • Supervision activity State Register accounting and control TSO: of radiation sources • State Scientific and Technical Center for Nuclear and Radiation Safety State Center of the Quality 2017 IAEA School for Drafting • Regulations - Nuclear Safety Ukraine

State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine (SNRIU) Chairman First Deputy Chairman – Chief State Inspector on Nuclear Section on Organization Activity and Management Support and RS of Ukraine Deputy Chairperson HR Unit Radioactive Waste Management Department on Nuclear Facilities Safety Section on Preventing and Safety Unit Combating Corruption Section on Administrative and Service. Section on Clearance and Radiation Safety Unit Support Restrictions Division on Documentary Division on Radiation Technologies Safety Provision and Control Section of radiation protection of patients 5 Inspections on Nuclear Safety at: Personnel Division Zaporizhzhya NPP Division on Radiation Sources Safe Division on International Rivno NPP Cooperation and European 7 Territory State Inspectorate Khmelnitsky NPP Integration Chornobyl NPP Nuclear and Radiation Safe South-Ukraine NPP Legal Unit Northern, North-Western, Southern, Economy, Finance and South-Eastern, Centra Accounting Unit Eastern Nuclear Security and Safeguards Unit 2018 IAEA School for Drafting Regulations - Radiation Safety Ukraine

The Legal Pyramid showing the hierarchy of Laws, Acts, Regulations and Guides Law On the Use of Nuclear Energy and Radiation Safety (Nuclear Law, 1995) On Licensing Activity in the Area of Nuclear Energy Use (Licensing Law, 20 On Human Protection against Impact of Ionizing Radiation (Protection Law Resoluti on Regulation The criteria by which activities with the use of ionizing radiation exemp licensing Technical Regulations sealed radioactive sources Requirements to the annual radiation safety analysis report of RS pro Radiation Safety Standards of Ukraine; Basic Sanitary Rules of Radiological Protection of Ukraine; Requirements for the safety analysis report of RS production; Requirements to the safety analysis report of RS use; 2018 IAEA School for Drafting Regulations - Radiation Safety Ukraine

List of relevant radiation safety requirements and regulations ● On approval of the criteria by which activities with the use of ionizing radiation exempted from licensing» , Decree of GU 16. 11. 2011 № 1174; ● Technical Regulations sealed radioactive sources» , Decree of GU 05. 12. 2007 № 1382; ● On Approval of the Procedure for the Implementation of State Supervision over Compliance with Nuclear and Radiation Safety Requirements, Decree of GU 13. 11. 2013 № 824. Regulations: ● Radiation Safety Standards of Ukraine, establishes basic principles and criteria's of radiation protection, (NRBU-97) / Addition-2000; ● Basic Sanitary Rules of Radiological Protection of Ukraine, (2005); ● Requirements for the safety analysis report of RS production, Order of SNRIU of 17. 08. 2001 № 62; ● Requirements to the annual radiation safety analysis report of RS production, Order of SNRIU of 29. 12. 2001 № 122; ● Requirements to the safety analysis report of RS use; Order SNRIU of 02. 12. 2002 № 125; ● The licensing Procedure of separate types of activity in the field of nuclear energy, Order of SNRIU of 06. 08. 2012 № 153; 2018 IAEA School for Drafting Regulations - Radiation Ukraine ● Safety The order of training and check knowledge in radiation protecting area,

Process of regulations development: other executive authorities, organizations, enterprises including operating organizations web-site of SNRIU for discussions Drafting regulation is available for public 2018 IAEA School for Drafting Regulations - Radiation Safety Ukraine Ministry of Justice

Regulations development and approach Basic Safety Rules for the Use of Radiation Sources (draft) Objective of the draft: Regulations specify the basic requirements for ‘protection and safety’ • For protection of people against exposure to ionizing radiation, for the safety of radiation sources, for the safety of radioactive waste management, and for protection of the environment; • To prevent unauthorized access or damage to, and loss, theft or unauthorized transfer of, radioactive sources, so as to reduce the likelihood of accidental harmful exposure to such sources; Scope: apply to the adoption, introduction, conduct, discontinuance, or cessation of a practice in a planned exposure situation and to the design, manufacture, construction or assembly, acquisition, import or export, distribution, selling, loaning or hiring, locating, commissioning, processing, possession, use and operation, maintenance or repair, transfer or decommissioning, disassembly, transport, storage and recycling. 2018 IAEA School for Drafting Regulations - Radiation Safety Ukraine

Basic Safety Rules for the Use of Radiation Sources (draft) Content: I. General Provisions II. Main principles of radiation protection and justification of practical activities with radiation sources IІІ. Radiation protection of personnel, aircraft crews and radiation monitoring and classification of workplaces IV. Requirements for education, training and provision of information on radiation safety V. General safety requirements for the use of sealed radiation sources VI. Safety requirements for the use of unsealed radiation sources VII. Safety of consumer products containing radioactive substances VIII. Requirements for radiation dose monitoring 2018 IAEA School for Drafting Regulations - Radiation Safety Ukraine

Basic Safety Rules for the Use of Radiation Sources (draft) Content: IX. Safety requirements for using radiation sources for non-medical human visualization X. Requirements for management of radiation sources XI. Radioactive waste management prior to transfer to specialized enterprises for radioactive waste management XII. Decommissioning of radiation sources XIII. Commissioning of radiation sources XIV. Radiation protection of persons from the public XV. Prevention of radiation accidents and mitigation of consequences at facilities using radiation sources XVI. Requirements for transport of radiation sources 2018 IAEA School for Drafting Regulations - Radiation Safety Ukraine

Start doing what you need. Then do what is possible. And you suddenly find that you're doing impossible. St. Francis of Assisi 2018 IAEA School for Drafting Regulations - Radiation Safety Ukraine