Objectives of safety assurance for nuclear power plants in Vietnam

16:27, 23/06/2010

Recently, the Government issued Decree 70/2010/ND-CP detailing and guiding a number of articles of the Law on atomic energy regarding nuclear power plants, regulating the objectives of safety assurance for nuclear power plants in Vietnam

Objectives of safety assurance for nuclear power plants in Vietnam (Internet image)

Article 9 of Decree 70/2010/ND-CP stipulates upon investment in, building, operation and termination of operation of a nuclear power plant in Vietnam, the following objectives must be ensured:

Establishment and maintenance of systems and processes of assuring safety at nuclear power plants in order to protect humans, society and environment from hazardous impacts of radiation.

Under normal operation conditions, keeping of irradiation levels inside and outside the plant below the permitted limit level and at the lowest level reasonably possible; in case of an incident, minimization of hazardous impacts of irradiation.

Application of rational measures of high reliability to prevent the occurrence of incidents in the plant. For all incidents anticipated during designing the plan, including also incidents of extremely low probability of occurrence, assurance that radioactive consequences, if any. are negligible and the possibility of a serious incident to occur is second to zero.

Thus, when investing, constructing and operating a nuclear power plant in Vietnam, it is necessary to strictly comply with the above objectives, ensuring absolute safety and protecting the health and lives of the people.

More details can be found in Decree 70/2010/ND-CP, which comes into force from August 10, 2010.

Nguyen Phu

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