Nuclear Facilities: Regulations and Licensing

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