Building an effective regulatory framework for

nuclear power

Olga Lugovskaya,

Head of Gosatomnadzor

MES

Department for Nuclear and

Radiation Safety

(Gosatomnadzor)

Department for Industrial Safety

(Gospromnadzor)

Department on Mitigation of the Consequences of the Catastrophe

at Chernobyl NPP

Department on Material Reserves

Ministry for Emergency Situations (MES) – National Regulatory Authority of the Republic

of Belarus

Republican Centre on

Emergency Management

and Response … …

Decree of the

President of

the Republic of

Belarus

12 Nov. 2007

#565

1993

GOSPROMNADZOR (National Competent Authority for Safety Work in Industry, Nuclear and Radiation Safety)

Supervisor – Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus

1995

GOSPROMNADZOR subordinated to the Ministry for Emergency Situations and Protection of Population from Consequences of Chernobyl Disaster of the Republic of Belarus (new National Competent Authority)

The Ministry delegated to GOSPROMNADZOR control and regulation functions

2007 N

ov. Ministry for

Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus (National Competent Authority) created GOSATOMNADZOR as a Department

and delegated to GOSATOMNADZOR control and regulation functions in nuclear and radiation safety

2013 J

uly

GOSATOMNADZOR staff increased more than twice (up to 82 staff units) in order to create conditions to perform all the regulatory functions taking into account progress of the Belarusian NPP project

1957 BELARUS – member of the IAEA

1991 BELARUS – independent country

Concept of

Energy

Security of the

Republic of

Belarus

Sept. 2007

Presidential

decision

Stages of Nuclear Regulatory

Body Development

Growth and considerable changes in regulatory infrastructure development

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July 2013 December 2015 45 new employees

including 22 young

professionals

2007

39 specialists

July 2013

82 specialists

INIR recommendation: The staffing of the Regulatory Body with graduates provided by the State Universities and other educational institutions from 2012 onwards should become a high priority in the HR action plans of BELARUS

Gosatomnadzor Staff

• Total : 82 positions

• By the current moment:

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4 candidates of sciences 6

Competences development Internal sources

• State program of training for

nuclear power in the Republic

of Belarus for 2008-2020,

approved by the Government of

the Republic of Belarus (in

2013 it was amended in view of

updated needs assessment of

the human resources and

financing);

• Topical internships for

newcomers;

• Technical meetings of

experience exchange and

tutoring

External sources

• IAEA national and regional TC projects and programmes;

• European Commission projects and programmes;

• Training and Tutoring (TT) for experts of the NRAs and their TSOs for developing or strengthening their regulatory and technical capabilities;

• Bilateral cooperation on nuclear and radiation safety issues;

• RCF support

• European experts Permanent Mission (since 2015)

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Law of the Republic of Belarus "On the Use of Nuclear Energy“

Law of the Republic of Belarus "On Radiation Safety of the Population"

Decree No. 450 signed by Belarus President “ About Licensing…” –

establishes a licensing procedure for all stages of NPP life cycle;

determines the composition of licensed organizations, requirements, terms

Decree No. 62 signed by Belarus President “ About Supervision…”–

establishes requirements for supervision;

regulates the relationship of the all supervisory authorities

Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus No854“About permissions for personal …” – establishes a list of appointments and requirements

for them which must obtain a license

Technical legal acts, Norms and rules of ensuring nuclear and radiation safety

Legal regulatory strategy pyramid

Approaches to develop of Technical legal acts, Norms and rules of ensuring nuclear and radiation safety

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Using of the Russian regulatory framework if

there are no own documents

Development, recycling, adoption on planning base

Two

parallel approaches

Government

plan

Internal

GAN plan

Assisted by European experts

Permanent Mission (since 2015)

Essential function – Licensing

Licenses issued by MES

BelNIPIENERGOPROM

for designing 06 Aug. 2010

JIPNR-Sosny for safety review

25 Nov. 2011

“Directorate of NPP construction”

for siting 31 May 2012

“Directorate of NPP construction” for erection of foundations of the buildings and structures of unit 1

13 Sept. 2013

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RUE “Belarusian NPP” for erection of foundations of the buildings and

structures of the Belarusian NPP unit 1 and 2 14 Feb. 2014

RUE “Belarusian NPP” for construction of the Belarusian NPP unit 1

22 Apr. 2014

RUE “Belarusian NPP” for construction of the Belarusian NPP unit 2

30 Dec. 2014

Already done

Essential function - Licensing

Between licenses period

[2015 – October 2016]

Licensing plan for operating step

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rren

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om

ent

Assisted by European experts Permanent Mission (since 2015)

Essential function – Supervision: State supervisors

• Ministry for Emergency Situations, including – Department for Nuclear and Radiation Safety

– Department for Industrial Safety Supervision

– Fire Supervision Services

– Emergency Preparedness and Response Supervision Services

• State Committee on Standardization, including – Department of Control and Supervision over Construction (Specialized Inspection)

– Metrology Supervision Services

– Supervision over Technical Standards and Regulations Services

• Ministry of Health

• Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources

• Ministry of Labor and Social Protection

• Ministry of Energy

• Ministry of Internal Affairs 12

Coordination: Working group for Coordination of

Supervision Activities lead by 1-st Deputy Minister

for Emergency Situations is established by Resolution

of Council of Ministers #1791 of 30 December 2011

Support: Concept of information supervision system

is elaborated and approved

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Essential function - Supervision

Essential function - Supervision

• 2 complex inspections in a year (VO “Safety” (Russian Federation) experts are involved )

• Territorial Sub-division in Ostrovets (Belarusian NPP construction site) was created: 7 residential state inspectors of GAN

plus

2 residential state inspectors on industrial

5 residential state inspectors on construction

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Mode of permanent supervision is realizing

Supervision over equipment manufacturing and acceptance

• Regulation on Supervision equipment manufacturing is adopted

• Inspection to manufactories are

2014 – 2;

2015 – 14;

2016 – 26.

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Essential function - Supervision

Assisted by Experts from VO “Safety” (Russian Federation)

and European experts Permanent Mission

Stakeholders communication • Information and Communication Strategy of

Gosatomnadzor approved in November 2013 and update in January 2015

• Interaction with licensees:

– Based on principles of transparency, openness, partnership;

– Coordinating of planning activity;

– Informing on national legislation and requirements application;

– Involvement of NPP representatives to relevant topical training (on new requirements, VAB group, etc)

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Stakeholders communication • Site of Gosatomnadzor (about 50 news

items per year)

• Regular press events, including jointly

with BELTA (1 time a quarter)

• Special project atom.belta.by (about 40

materials per year)

• Review of the status of nuclear and

radiation safety in the Republic of

Belarus for 2014 (first practice)

• Training of journalists (approbation)

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International cooperation

*Development and preparing for the adoption of the program of the Union State Russia/Belarus «Improvement of approaches to regulating safe use of nuclear energy, emergency preparedness

and response»

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Cooperation

Bilateral

RB

*Russian Federation

Armenia

Ukraine

Poland

Austrian

TSO

Germany

France

In progress:

Lithuania

Hungary

The Nordic countries (Finland, Sweden, Norway)

Multilateral

EU

IAEA

RCF

WENRA

WWER

Thank you for attention

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