Publikasjoner

Identifying priorities for improving supervision of nuclear and radiation safety and security.

Rapporten presenterer resultater fra den siste delen av arbeidet knyttet til radiologisk konsekvensvurderinger av den russiske atomubåten K-27. I hovedsak består rapporten av to deler; den første delen fokuserer på potensiell spredning av radioaktivitet i miljøet med hensyn til forskjellige eksponeringssituasjoner og andre del fokuserer på konsekvensene av utslipp av radioaktivitet til miljøet og beregning av doser.

Rapporten beskriver arbeid som ble utført fra 2013 til 2015 innenfor Stråleverns samarbeidsprosjekter med myndighetene i Sentral Asia med fokus på støtte regelverksutvikling på område strålingssikkerhet og historisk radioaktivt og uran avfallshåndtering.

This report describes the presentations and discussions from the workshop, which also resulted in the identification of further research and cooperation needs. NRPA has substantial bi-lateral cooperation experience with the Russian Federation, central Asian countries and Ukraine with special focus on radiation and nuclear legacy problems. The objective of the last workshop was to promote the sharing of experience on practical regulation of a wide range of nuclear and radiation legacies.

This report describes work carried out between 2010 and 2015 within the regulatory cooperation program of the NRPA and Russian Federation. It focuses on development of improved regulatory documents, procedures and other features of supervision of remediation activities being carried out at the Site for Temporary Storage of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste at Andreev’s Bay and related facilities in northwest Russia.

The Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority (NRPA) has cooperated for over 10 years with its sister authorities in the Russian Federation in the area of regulatory enhancement of nuclear safety culture and radiation protection concerning legacy sites and facilities.

On 18 November 2014 an agreement was signed by the Norwegian Radiation Protection Authority and the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine. This agreement set up a bilateral regulatory cooperation program under which the parties will exchange technical information and cooperate in the fields of nuclear and radiation safety and security.

In June 2014, the Department of Energy (DOE) of the United States and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) entitled «Cooperation on Nonproliferation Assistance». The MOU specifically cites the detection and deterrence of illicit trafficking of nuclear materials across international borders.

Marine dumping of liquid and solid radioactive waste in the Arctic was practiced by the former USSR and later by Russia from the early 1960s until the early 1990s. Reactors and reactor compartments with a total activity of about 36.6 PBq were dumped in the Kara Sea; 21.8 PBq of this amount being due to spent nuclear fuel (SNF).

An overview of existing and /available information regarding the Russian nuclear submarine K-27 is provided in the report. Furthermore, a detailed account of the inventory is given along with consideration of the various conditions under which a spontaneous chain reaction might occur. The amounts and forms of radionuclides that may be released to the environment under given accident scenarios are thereafter characterised.