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Radiation Protection and Safety Law.

País/Territorio
Mongolia
Tipo de documento
Legislación
Fecha
Fuente
FAO, FAOLEX
Materia
Medio ambiente gen.
Palabra clave
Radiación Institución Registro Transporte/depósito Peligros Residuos peligrosos
Área geográphica
Asia, Asia y Pacifico, Asia Oriental, Naciones en desarrollo sin litoral
Entry into force notes
The Law enters into force from the date of its enactment.
Resumen

The purpose of this law shall be to specify basic requirements for the healthy environment and protection of population in current and future generations against exposure or potential exposure to radiation and for safety of radiation sources. This law shall apply to all activities associated with mining and processing of radioactive ores in the territory of Mongolia (art. 1). For the purposes of radiation protection, radiation capable of producing ion pairs in biological materials shall be used the common name of ionising radiation (art.3, sub-issue 3.1.1). Material, whatever its physical form, remaining from practices or interventions and for which no further use is foreseen (i) that contains or is contaminated with radioactive substances and has an activity or activity concentration higher than the level from regulatory requirements, and (ii) exposure to which is not excluded from the Standards (art. 3, sub-issue 3.1.8). Radiation protection principles of practices shall be as follows: 1) no practice of source within a practice shall be authorized unless it is deemed by the regulatory authority to be justified, i.e. likely to produce sufficient benefit to exposed individuals or to society to offset the radiation harm that it might cause; taking into account social, economic and other relevant factors; 2) the risk to benefit ratio must be optimised; 3) the normal exposure of individuals shall be restricted so that neither the total effective dose nor the total equivalent dose to organs or tissues, caused by the possible combination of exposures from authorised practices, exceeds any relevant dose limit (art. 4). The Atomic Energy Agency (hereafter referred to as Agency) is a state administrative central organization of the Government for coordination of all the activities of Government policy and regulatory control in the field of developing of nuclear technology, providing a radiation protection and safety and the activities related with the mining or treatment of radioactive ore. The plenary rights of the Agency shall be: 1) to provide policy advice to the Government on issues relating to developing of nuclear technology, providing of radiation protection and safety, regulations of activities associated with the mining or process of radioactive ore; 2) to administer the radiation safety law, regulations, standards and Government decisions regarding radiation protection; 3) to adopt or revise of radiation safety standards, codes of practice sand to control of their implementation; 4) to implement of international conventions and treaties relating to radiation safety and radiation protection, including the transport and disposal of radioactive sources and materials; 5) to carry out environmental radiation impact assessments and to determine an radiation level of natural radioactivity distribution in the mineral resources; 6) to coordinate the activities of cooperation with the international or foreign organizations in the field of radiation protection and mining or processing of radioactive ore; 7) to prepare qualified experts on radiation protection and nuclear technology at national level, and training for users of sources; 8) to establish a nuclear technology and information database and to organise conference, seminars and workshops; 9) other rights specified in other relevant Laws of Mongolia (art. 10). Basic requirements on use of radiation sources shall be: 1) to keep a book of radiation sources being used and report on their annual use and allocation to the Regulatory authority no later than the 15th December of each year; 2) to notify and register with the regulatory authority within 10 days of receipt of radiation sources; 3) to take emergency actions to repair damages and eliminate damages caused by radiation sources in events of disasters and accidents in conformity with the respective legislation and technological procedures; 4) prohibition to mail radiation sources, deliver them through third persons or transport them by public transportation without permit from the regulatory authority; 5) prohibition to produce or store radiation sources and preparations intended for use of weapons; 6) prohibition to use radiation sources when their names, types, characteristics, purpose of usage and prescriptions are not clear (art. 36).

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