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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
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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Cu
rren
t m
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