1. Current Radiation Protection Legislation in Slovakia
D. Viktory
National Public Health Institute of the SR

2. Nuclear Facility
Nuclear facility means (Act No. 130/98 on peaceful use of nuclear energy)
Nuclear installations incorporating a nuclear reactor utilizing a controlled fission chain reaction,
Installations and facilities for the production, treatment and storage of nuclear materials,
Installations and facilities for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel
Installations and facilities for the processing, management, storage and disposal of radioactive waste

3. Nuclear Facilities in Slovakia
NPPs in operation
Bohunice V1 – 2 units VVER 440 type 230
Bohunice V2 – 2 units VVER 440 type 213
Mochovce - 2 units VVER 440 type 213
NPP in decommissioning - Bohunice A1
Interim storage for spent fuel - Bohunice
Conditioning center for radioactive waste Bohunice
incineration
bitumenation
cementation
vitrification
Research Institute for Nuclear Facilities
Experimental units for conditioning of radwaste
Near surface disposal of radwaste Mochovce

4. Nuclear Safety and Radiation protection
Nuclear safety- means the status and ability of a nuclear installation and its staff to prevent the uncontrolled development of a fission chain reaction or the unsanctioned release of radioactive substances or ionizing radiation into the workplace or environment and to limit the consequences of accidents (Act No.130/1998 on peaceful use of nuclear energy)
Radiation Protection - means a system of technical and organizational measures to limit radiation exposure (Act No. 272/1994 on protection of the public health)

5. Nuclear Safety and Radiation protection

6. Development in the past ten years
Act No. 71/1967 on procedures in state administration

7. Authorities in Radiation Protection
Authority
Responsibility
Supervising body

8. Responsibilities of the Chief Hygienist
Licence (permit) issuing for practices (sources class 6) and nationally important (production of sources)
Licence issuing for activities important from RP view (services)
Judgments to construction, commissioning and decommissioning of nuclear installations
Establishment of examination committees
General management of radiation protection

9. Responsibilities of Regional Hygienist
Licence issuing for practices - sources class 4 and 5
Notification of practices with sources class 2 and 3
Judgments on construction of working places with sources class 4 and 5
Establishment of examination committees on regional level

10. Inspectors and their empowerment
The Inspectors are empowered:
To have a free entrance on sites, grounds, into the objects
to take samples and to measure
to ask for the documentations and to control the documents and results of monitoring
The Inspectors are not empowered:
to give sanctions, to give orders
to stop the practice

11. Comments to selected terms
Radiation protection
Practice
Intervention
Source
Occupationally exposed worker
Radiation incident and accident
Controlled area

12. Categorization of radiation sources
6 classes
Problem of two scales used
Categorization of nuclear reactor, nuclear installations and facilities, and radionuclides produced by reactor operation
Radioactive waste from nuclear installations

13. Comments to framework and basic principles
Practice
justification
optimization
limitation and limits
Intervention
limitation

14. Optimization of radiation protection
Guidance levels for demonstration of optimization:
Collective eff.dose 100 man mSv/a
Collective eff.dose 20man mSv for the task
worker 1 mSv/a
Public collective eff.dose 1 manSv/a
Member of critical groupe 10 micro Sv/a
Demonstration of optimization during licensing
Demonstration of optimization during operation

15. Monetary values for optimization - workers

16. Monetary values for optimization - public

17. Exposure limits Workers Population Effective dose 50 mSv per year
Effective dose 100 mSv per 5 consecutive years
Equivalent dose 150 mSv per year - lens of eye
Equivalent dose 500 mSv per year- skin, extremities
Population
Effective dose1 mSv per year
Equivalent dose 15 mSv per year-lens of eye
Equivalent dose 50 mSv per year-skin, extremities

18. Natural radiation sources
Radiation protection of the public
Duties of the dwelling construction investors
to monitor the radon activity in soil
to report the results to PHI
to make countermeasures, if action level of radon in soil was exceeded

19. Natural radiation sources
Radiation protection of the public
Duties of the building material producers and the drinking water providers
to monitor the activity
to report the results to PHI
to make countermeasures if action level is exceeded, and to have the permit of the DH
not to distribute if limit of activity exceeded

20. Natural radiation sources
Radiation protection of workers
Duties of employer
to make countermeasures, if derived action level exceeded
If the action level is still exceeded:
to ensure monitoring
to report results to PHI
to evaluate dose exposures, to keep limits and to keep dose records
to appoint person responsible for RP

21. Release of radioactive materials in envinronment
Release of daily used articles from controlled area,
Release of radioactive discharges,
Clearance of radioactive and contaminated materials

22. Normalized collective doses

23. Discharges - Airborne Tritium

24. Discharges - Airborne beta-gama

25. Discharges - Airborne I-131

26. Discharges - Noble Gases

27. Discharges - Liquid Tritium

28. Discharges - Liquid Beta-Gama

29. Conclusions
Generally the legislation in radiation protection harmonizes with BSS
System of radiation protection and the level achieved is comparable with EU countries
The development of third level of radiation protection regulations (guidance, instructions) is necessary
Improvement of selected provisions in legislation is necessary
Existence of two authorities should be revaluated