SYSTEM OF THE REGULATIONIN RADIATION PROTECTION.ppt

SYSTEM OF THE REGULATIONIN RADIATION PROTECTION UNECE Group of Experts Monitoring of Radiologically Contaminated Scrap Metal Vladimír Jurina Public Health Authority of the Slovak Republic 5 – 7 April Geneva System of the Regulations in Radiation Protection Handling of institutional radioactive wastes (1) Handling of institutional radioactive Act No. 130/1998 Coll.LL. on peaceful uses of nuclear energy (Act No. 130/1998), wastes shall mean collection, sorting, processing, preparation for storage, storage and transport of institutional radioactive wastes, except for transport from the site of processing to site of reposition for resposition.(2) Institutional radioactive wastes may only be handled for the purposes of increasing safety of their further handling and of enabling their safe reposition, recovering of usable materials and improving economy of their further handling by changing their weight, volume or form.(3) Upon handling of institutional radioactive wastes, also other hazardous properties of such wastes have to be accounted for, in particular their toxicity, flammability, explosivity, infectivity, spontaneous fission and residual heat that may influence their safe handling. Handling of institutional radioactive waste including disused sealed sources Handling of institutional radioactive waste including disused sealed sources Lost, found, orphan sources andtransportation Lost, found, orphan sources andtransportation ( cont′d) There is currently none legislation in the Slovak Republic as would specially govern the management of orphan sealed sources . The general radiation protection principles as laid down by Act No 470/2000 Coll. and the Regulation of Ministry of Health No 12/2001 Coll. are followed In 2003 an agreement between Ministry of Health (Public Health Authority), Nuclear Regulatory Authority and Ministry of Transport was signed. As the number of events related to radiation sources has increased in last time according to this agre