Nuclear Facilities: Regulations and Licensing

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Week 1. Nuclear Facilities

Nuclear facilities – definition, objective, scope, general requirements for power reactors
Regulatory body – reactive role – step by step licensing, perpetual control, and other measures
Operating entity – management and verification of safety, other issues, decommissioning
Conditions for a license. Research and testing reactors

Week 2. Regulatory Body and Licensing

Regulatory body and licensing
Licensing – availability, application, criteria, Issuance, suspension, modification, revocation, appeals
Inspection and enforcement – scope and objectives

Week 3. International System of Radiological Protection

International System of Radiological Protection – objective, scope, exclusion
Regulations – exemption, lack of justification, clearance
What requires a license – activities and facilities
Conditions for licensing
International legal framework on nuclear safety: developments, challenges and opportunities

Week 4. Transportation of nuclear and radioactive material

Transport of nuclear and radioactive material
Legal means of ensuring safe transport
Model Regulations of the UN and IAEA
Incorporating model regulations into national law
Other issues – jurisdiction, transboundary movement, physical protection

Week 5. Safeguards

Safeguards. Basic documents, non-proliferation agreements
Objective, scope
Key elements of safeguards legislation
Elements of a State’s nuclear regulatory body

Week 6. Physical protection

Physical protection
CPPNM – Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material requirements
IAEA recommendations, objectives and fundamental principles
Objectives, scope, key elements of legislation. Illicit trafficking, nuclear terrorism

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None.

Instructors

Olga Moiseeva
Associate Professor
National Research Nuclear University

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National Research Nuclear University “MEPhI” is one of the most recognized technical universities in Russia. It is the only research nuclear university in Russia. The aim of the university existence is preparing the specialists for nuclear industry, science, information technology and other high-tech sectors of Russian economy. National Research Nuclear University “MEPhI” implements postgraduate professional education curricula (PhD and postdoctoral level), carries out fundamental and applied scientific research in high-priority fields of science and technologies. Among MEPhI graduates are Nobel Prize winners, members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and winners of national prizes. Its professors and alumni have made major contributions to various fields of theoretical and experimental physics, mathematics, cybernetics, and computer sciences.

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