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5th Review Meeting of the

Convention on Nuclear Safety

Greece

Country Group 5

Greek Atomic Energy Commission

IAEA, 04-14 April 2011

Presentation Outline

• Summary of basic information

• Changes since the last Review Meeting

• Action on challenges from the last RM

• Current challenges

• Significant events since the last RM

• Good practices and efforts

• Planned measures to improve safety

• Updates to National Report to 5th RM

• Questions raised for Peer Review of National Report

• Conclusions

CNS 5th Review Meeting, Vienna, 4-14 April 2011

• Greece has no nuclear installation and no intention to built any in the foreseeable future (1 RR and 1 sub-critical assembly)

• Articles within the scope on CNS

• Art. 7: Legislative and regulatory framework

• Art. 8: Regulatory body

• Art. 16: Emergency preparedness

Summary of basic information on the

national programme


• The Greek Legislation is in accordance and fulfils the requirements of this article

• A list of the legislation is provided in the National Report

• Laws establishing the system of licensing with regard to nuclear installations

• Ratification of international conventions related to nuclear safety

• Legislative framework related to safeguards and non-proliferation

• National radiation protection legislation, implementing the IAEA and EC BSS

• Emergency preparedness

• Other relevant legislation

Summary of basic information on the national

programme - Art. 7: Legislative and regulatory

framework



programme - Art. 8: Regulatory body

• Greek Atomic Energy Commission

• Independent and competent authority with adequate human and financial resources and infrastructure

• Detailed description is provided in the National Report



programme - Art. 16: Emergency preparedness

• Although Greece has no nuclear installations, it has established:

• Radiological emergency preparedness regulations, plans and organization scheme

• A fairly extensive monitoring network covering the national territory

Detailed description is provided in the National Report


Changes in the national programme

since the last Review Meeting

• Changes in Laws and Regulations (short overview)

• Ratification of the Protocol amending the Convention on Third

Party Liability in the field of nuclear energy (Law No 9787, 2009)

• Presidential Decree (PD) for the transposition in the Greek

legislation of the Council Directive 2006/117/Euratom on the

“Supervision and control of the shipments of radioactive waste

and spent fuel (PD, OG 147/A/03-09-2010).

• Legislation in progress

• Draft of PD for the transposition of the European Directive 2009/71/Euratom,

establishing a Community Framework for the nuclear safety of nuclear

installations. Submitted to the EC.

• Ministerial Decree for updating the licensing framework of GRR-1, according

to Euratom Directive 2009/71/Euratom. In the phase of drafting by GAEC


Action on challenges from the last Review

Meeting, Planned Measures to improve Safety

• The 2008 review process has not identified areas of non-

compliance with the provisions of the CNS

• “Planned measures to improve safety and quality

management systems for both Regulatory Body and

GRR-1” …is an on-going process


Current Challenges

• Maintain expertise

• Update the licensing framework of the GRR-1

• Full independence of GAEC


Significant events since the last Review

Meeting

• Significant progress in Legislation

• Request for IRRS Mission


Good Practices and Efforts

• GAEC resources: adequate, partly independent budget and

high-quality human resources and infrastructure

• Greece committed itself to apply CNS requirements to

Research Reactor although outside the scope of the CNS

• Request for IRRS mission

• Collaboration with NRC on issues of GRR-1 licensing

process


Planned Measures to Improve Safety

• Request for IRRS mission


process


Updates to National Report to

5th Review Meeting

• Presidential Decree (PD) for the transposition in the

Greek legislation of the Council Directive

2006/117/Euratom on the “Supervision and control of the

shipments of radioactive waste and spent fuel (PD, OG

147/A/03-09-2010)


process


Questions Raised from Peer Review of

National Report

25 questions

Posted by: Concerning:

(1) Bulgaria (4) General (3) Art. 14*

(1) Singapore (1) Art. 6* (2) Art. 15*

(5) Ireland (4) Art. 8 (2) Art. 16

(4) Canada (1) Art. 9*

(7) United Arab Emirates (4) Art. 10*

(6) Germany (1) Art. 11*

(1) United States of America (3) Art. 13*

*Outside the scope of CNS



National Report

• Article 8: Regulatory Body

– Financing of GAEC (2010): 43% from public funds and 57% from

other sources (services, research and development projects)

– Current financial difficulties: Reduction of personnel salaries and

third parties income

– GRR-1 is regulated by the Reactor Office

• 3 persons (2 with a PhD, and 1 with MSc)

• Interaction with other departments and the Legal Office



National Report

• Article 8: Regulatory Body (Cont.)

– GAEC’s enforcement functions, responsibilities

• The RP regulations provide a graded approach for the requirements (license

duration, inspection protocols, personnel qualification,…)

• GAEC can suspend or ask for the suspension of any license

• GAEC can ask the prosecutor intervention

• Penalties provision within the general national legislation

– IRRS mission in Greece: in progress

• Self Assessment: in progress

• Preparatory meeting:29-30 September 2011

• IRRS mission: 7-18 May 2012



National Report

• Article 16: Emergency preparedness

Exercises

• ECURIE Level 3 / ConvEx 3

• ECURIE Level 2 / ConvEx, basically communication aspects

• Collaborating laboratories activation, in situ measurements, dispersion

model analysis, press release simulation

• Lessons learnt: small communication and organizational insufficiencies

• Periodical activation of GAEC’s internal emergency plan

Three managing Committees

• 3 member “Staff Office”: Chaired by GEAC’s President

• 7 member “Scientific Committee”: Chaired by GAEC’s President

• Ministerial Coordinator Board: Chaired by the Minister

• Don’t meet on a continuous basis, Place of meeting: GAEC, Substitute

members



National Report

Issues out of the scope of CNS

• Article 6: GRR-1 LEU conversion

– The conceptual core meets the OLCs

– An increase of thermal neutron flux maximum, compatible with the

safety requirements

– Safety is promoted with the new core configuration

• Article 9: License holder responsibility

– The INT-RP of NCSR “Demokritos” is the license holder for

GGR-1



National Report


• Article 10:

Qualification programme for inspectors

• Education and training requirements are provided in the Quality System

(ISO/IEC 17020)

• 12-months trial period for inspectors

Frequency of inspections

• Regular (frequency depends on the license type), Extra ordinaries

Regional training courses organised by IAEA and GAEC



National Report


• Article 13:

– GAEC Integrated management system

• The majority of GAEC functions are accredited by the National Accreditation

Council (EN/EC/ISO 17025 or 17020)

• To a big extent GAEC operates an Integrated Management System following

IAEA GS-R-3

• IRRS mission’s recommendations will be implemented

– GRR-1 Quality Assurance Programme

• In compliance with IAEA GS-R-3

• Will be reviewed by GAEC as a part of the SAR for the renewal of operation

license



National Report


• Article 14: GRR-1 safety assessment and verification

– Both deterministic and probabilistic methods are used

• Article 15: Occupational dose limits

– Explicitly specified in the RP regulations

– In compliance with IAEA and EC BSS

– Details given in the national report


Conclusions

• We believe that the review process will not identify areas

of non-compliance with the provisions of CNS

• For Greece, the CNS is an on-going process assisting in

the evolution of the nuclear and radiological safety


Accident in Japan – Greek Actions

We express our sympathy to the Japan Government and population

The Greek government through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Greek

Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC) has issued the following

recommendations:

• Travel to Japan is not advised.

• As a precautionary measure, Greek citizens within a 80 km zone from the

Fukushima nuclear power plant are advised to move out of the area. The

same recommendation has been addressed to Greek ships.

• Greek citizens and Greek ships’ crew members have been advised to follow

the instructions of local authorities.



Airplanes

• There are no direct flights from Japan to Greece. However, the option of

passengers screening upon arrival from Japan has been provided on a

voluntary basis in two airports (Athens and Thessaloniki) from 18 to 26

March 2011.

• Thyroid uptake and whole body counting are performed in GAEC, if proven

necessary from the screening.

• GAEC laboratories are available to persons coming from Japan, wishing to

be monitored.

56 passengers have been monitored. Low concentrations of radioactivity

were detected in the personal belongings of 2 persons. In these cases

thyroid uptake and whole body measurements were performed. Iodine in

low concentration has been detected, resulting in extremely low doses.



Environmental Monitoring

• Telemetric network for monitoring total-gamma dose in air (24 stations) and

aerosols (3 stations), on-line with GAEC web-site and EURDEP

• High volume sampler measurements

• Activation of the network of collaborating laboratories for performing

sampling and measurements

• Measurements are continuously performed in environmental samples (air

filters, rain water, grass, milk, water)

• The telemetric network has not detected increased levels of radioactivity




Area Type of measurement Dates of measurement

I-131 (min, max)

Cs-137

Cs-134

23-24/3 (100,110) <24 <45 24-25/3 (100,130) <24 <45 25-26/3 (125,180) <24 <45 26-27/3 (175,200) <24 <45 27-28/3 (85, 246) 116 103 28-29/3 (60, 169) 30 32 29-30/3 (150,335) <24 <45 30-31/3 (60,272) <24 <45 31/3-1/4 (250,444) <24 <45

Air concentration (μBq/m

3)

1-2/4 (60,156) <24 <45

22-24/3 <1.8 <3.2 - Deposition (Bq/m2)

23-29/3 5.7±0.6 <1.6 -

24/3 <1.2 1.5 - 27/3 0.7 <0.4 -

Deposition on vegetation (Bq/kg)

30/3 0.84±0.28 <0.4 -

16/3 <0.14 <0.18 - Sheep milk (raw) concentration (Bq/l)

(*) 27/3 0.43 <0.15 -

Attiki

Drainage water concentration (Bq/l)

29/3 4.1 <1.3 -

23-24/3 <10 - - 24-25/3 (123,143) <11 <9 25-26/3 83 - - 26-27/3 (161,332) 18 12,5 27-28/3 (150,268) <11 <9 28-29/3 (91,160) <11 <9 29-30/3 63 - - 30-31/3 171 - - 31/3-1/4 (194,296) 19 11


3)

1-2/4 (195,365) - -

Deposition on grass (Bq/kg)

30/3 1.1±0.3 - -

Sheep milk (raw) concentration (Bq/l)

(*)

30/3 1.0 - -

Cow milk (raw) concentration (Bq/l)

(*)

31/3 <0.2 - -

Thessaloniki

Rain water concentration (Bq/l)

29/3 0.5 - -

25-26/3 32 - -

26-27/3 128 - -

27-28/3 67 - -


3)

28-29/3 29 - -

Sheep milk (raw) concentration (Bq/l)

(*)

29/3 0.93 <0.7 -

Western

Greece

Cow milk (raw) concentration (Bq/l)

(*)

30/3 <0.3 <0.3 -


Ships• For ships coming from the Pacific Ocean (in general) no provisions are

considered necessary.

• For ships coming from the affected area, the possibility of performing

measurements for surface contamination mainly on the containers carried

by open-top ships is under consideration.

• Whole body and thyroid uptake measurements can be performed on a

voluntary basis to the crew members returning from the affected area.

Food and feeding stuff importFollowing the relevant EC Recommendation, radioactivity measurements are

performed in food and feeding stuff imported from Japan.



Public information activities and other provisions

• GAEC has extended its working hours (18 hours daily)

• Press releases

• Phone line available

• Updates and information material published on GAEC’s website (FAQ, link

to the national telemetric network, link to the EURDEP)

• Contact with IAEA, EC, national authorities, scientific societies


Thank you for your attention

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