Nuclear Facilities

The first part of the course concentrates on the requirements of operating a nuclear facility – initial licensing process and subsequent continuous regulatory control. Next, we will take a look at the international system of radiological protection and legal framework on nuclear safety, transport and transboundary movement of nuclear material. Finally, we will discuss the issues of illicit nuclear trafficking and nuclear terrorism.

What you'll learn

• 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
• Regulatory body and licensing
• Licensing – availability, application, criteria, Issuance, suspension, modification, revocation, appeals
• Inspection and enforcement – scope and objectives
• 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
• 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
• Safeguards. Basic documents, non-proliferation agreements
• Objective, scope
• Key elements of safeguards legislation
• Elements of a State’s nuclear regulatory body
• 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