Applying 4 Principles of security assurance for nuclear material and facilities in Vietnam

Applying 4 Principles of security assurance for nuclear material and facilities in Vietnam (Illustrative image)

Article 4 of Circular 38/2011/TT-BKHCN stipulates the principles of security assurance for nuclear material and facilities in Vietnam:

1. The head of an institution or an individual licensed to perform radiation work related to nuclear material or facilities shall assume the highest responsibility for assuring security of nuclear material and facilities.

2. Institutions and individuals that are licensed to perform radiation work related to nuclear material or facilities shall observe security assurance requirements for nuclear material and facilities specified in this Circular and other relevant regulations.

3. Security assurance requirements and measures applicable to nuclear material and facilities must be suitable to different categories of nuclear material and levels of radioactive consequences of sabotage. Institutions and individuals that use. store and transport nuclear material not belonging to categories I. II and III shall take necessary management measures to assure security.

4. Nuclear safely and security assurance and control measures must be taken into account right from the designing stage so that these measures support and do not badly affect one another.

Moreover, the regulations on security assurance plans in Vietnam are as follows:

Institutions and individuals that perform radiation work related to nuclear material or facilities shall work out security assurance plans describing in detail security measures in compliance with this Circular. A security-assurance plan constitutes part of a safety assessment report in a dossier of application for grant or extension of a license for performance of radiation work as well as part of a report on the safety status for performance of radiation work which shall be made and sent to the Vietnam Agency for Radiation and Nuclear Safely on an annual basis or at the latter's request.

More details can be found in Circular 38/2011/TT-BKHCN, which comes into effect in Vietnam from February 15, 2012.

Thuy Tram

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