1. RCF Plenary Session 21 September 2018
Experience – Sharing on Drafting and Revising of Nuclear Safety Regulations and Guides
RCF Plenary Session 21 September 2018
Zoya Trafimchik
Gosatomnadzor Republic of Belarus

2. Regulatory Infrastructure Development
Regulatory body reorganization/establishment:
MES – National Regulatory Authority/Gosatomnadzor – implementing body
Decision on the use of vendor country documents
2007
2012
INIR mission
Licensing of Belarusian NPP construction
Permanent Supervision
Increase in staff - from 39 to 82
2013
2016
IRRS mission (25 recommendations, 20 suggestions,
2 good practices)
2017
TSO system establishment/ CNRS - coordinator
Stage of licensing of Belarusian NPP Unit 1 operation /Safety Assessment Conduction
(+ Stress-test)
and
Huge international support and experience exchange

3. Legal Framework Development
Main Laws:
“On Radiation Safety of Population“, 1998 (Under actualization, 2018 )
“On the Use of Nuclear Energy”, 2008
Use of vendor country (Russian Federation) documents (since 2010, Presidential Decree)
Main Presidential Decrees
“On licensing of Certain Types of Activities” (№450, )
“On Safety Assurance in the Construction Process of the Belarusian NPP”
(№ 62, 2015 )
“On the Establishment of an Institution” – State Scientific and Technical Institution “Centre for Nuclear and Radiation Safety”
(№ 361, 2017)
Main Governmental Resolutions
“On Approving the Provision on the Expertise Procedure for Documentation Justifying the Assurance of Nuclear and Radiation Safety in the Implementation of Activities in the field of the Atomic Energy and Ionizing Radiation Sources Use”
(№ 1781, 2010)
“On Approving the Provision for Organization and Implementing of Control(Supervision) of Safety Assurance during the Construction and Commissioning of the Belarusian NPP” (№ 133, 2015)
“On Scientific and Technical Support of the Ministry for Emergency Situations in the Field of the Nuclear and Radiation Safety Assurance”
(№ 991, 2017 )

4. Legal Framework Development (approach)
GAP analysis
Based on Annual Plan
Drafting Team: GAN, JIPNR-Sosny, (+ since 2018 – CNRS)
Legal conditions for stakeholders input
Governmental Resolutions оn organization/involvement of stakeholder into consideration of legal acts (№ 247 of March 20, 2012, № 458 of June 14, 2016)

5. Legal Framework Development (external support)
Sustainable assistance of Russian Federation Regulatory Body – Federal Environmental, Industrial and Nuclear Supervision Service “ROSTECHNADZOR” and its TSO – SECNRS
Free access to the Information System of SECNRS Russian Federation “RIS – M” data-base
Provision of consultative services to GOSATOMNADZOR on concepts of existing documents elaboration and its further up-date
IAEA technical assistance via:
National projects
Regional projects
School of drafting regulations
Peer-reviews’ Recommendations
EC technical assistance. Task “Assistance in the development of a
regulatory framework (legislation and regulations)”:
Workshops on best international practices
Consideration and recommendations to draft documents
Provision of comparative analysis on “Belarusian and
Russian regulatory requirements in the field of nuclear
and radiation safety of nuclear power plants”
Consideration of WENRA recommendations application to
the Belarus national legislation

6. Approach to Development of National Legal Base when Using Vendor Country Technical Legal Acts:
Establishment of LIST of relevant Safety Regulations and Acts and its up date based on:
-evaluation of Russian Federation concept ( ) on improvement of normative legal regulations (documents are not up to date or no plans to up date documents)
- IAEA newly adopted safety requirements
-IRRS (2016) and other peer-reviews recommendations
Documents categories:
-norms and rules/safety rules (Belarus)
- technical codes of practice (Belarus)
- instructions (Belarus)
- norms and rules for nuclear energy (Russia)

7. Identified Priorities and Recently Adopted Norms and Rules:
EPR:
“Requirements for the operating organization for the planning and implementation of radiation monitoring in the event of a nuclear or radiological emergency at a nuclear power plant”
“Requirements for the NPP stress testing (targeted safety reassessment)”
“Requirements for composition and contents of the NPP staff protection plan in case of radiation emergency”
“Requirements for the categorization of the nuclear and radiation emergency planning”

8. Identified Priorities and Recently Adopted Norms and Rules:
Welding/ formed and implementing system of welding technology as well as welders certification.
“The welding works organization and performing at the nuclear facilities”
“Rules for monitoring of the localization safety system elements welding”
“The nuclear power unit equipment and pipelines. Welded connections and seams. Monitoring rules”
“The nuclear power unit equipment and pipelines. Welding and building up. The main principles”
“The main principles of welding of the NPP localization safety system elements”

9. Identified Priorities and Recently Adopted Norms and Rules:
Waste Management/updating the technical standards for the radioactive waste and spent fuel is in progress and started from update of the Law on Radiation Protection of Population
New Law Provisions:
Government approves the strategy of radioactive waste management and defines the regulatory body on coordination in the stated area of activity with the main tasks to establish radioactive waste long-term storage and disposal system, to organize research scientific work in the field of radioactive waste management, to elaborate radioactive waste management financing mechanism;
establishing of radioactive waste classification depending on disposal type in compliance with the IAEA recommendations;
establishing of requirements to the operating organization to conduct a periodic safety assessment of radioactive waste management;
introducing the need for the long-term security assessment of waste disposal facilities;
defining the priority of passive safety measures applying during the radioactive waste disposing;
establishing of the acceptance criteria for radioactive waste disposing; ETC.

10. Identified Priorities and Recently Adopted Norms and Rules:
NPP Safety:
“NPP modifications and its safety assessment procedure”
“Requirements for the operation of accounting and analysis system of the NPP operation experience”
“Requirements for NPP stress testing”

11. Identified Priorities (practical example)
Using of actual Russian Norms and Rules
“General Provisions of NPP Safety Assurance
and
Elaboration of Belarusian Norms and Rules
“General Provisions of NPP Safety Assurance”
(expected adoption date – end 0f 2018)
Reasons for adoption of national document:
overcoming differences with prevailing documents of Belarus and impossibility for full scope use of this Russian legal act;
introducing new terms such as “MODIFICATION”, “AGING” ….
adding provisions related to the on-site and off-site emergency plans;
excluding the term “COMMMISSIONNING” as it is defined in the Law on the Use of Nuclear Energy”

12. Legal Framework Development (Challenges)I
Introducing in the existing framework of recent/new IAEA requirements on international best practices
Belarus operative tool: Presidential Decrees
(Decree № 62, 2015 “On Safety Assurance in the Construction Process of the Belarusian NPP”) II
Consistency and time needed for drafting and approving Belarusian regulations to replace Russian Federation regulations
III
Maintenance of sustainable interaction with the public to get views on new legal acts
“Intelligent” interaction with Licensee in terms of :
sending of draft regulations to get views on practical applications;
elaborating and (establishing ) rules for transition period between dates of regulation approval to their practical application IV

13. Legal Framework Development
Future steps:
Up date of “Strategy for the development of regulatory legal acts in the of nuclear and radiation safety of the Department for Nuclear and Radiation Safety of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus” and finalization of IMS core process
Continuation of activities based on planning in accordance with annual analysis made by TSO
IRRS recommendations/suggestions implementation via legal acts update or elaboration of new ones

14. Thank you for attention!