Vietnam: Safety status of nuclear power plants must be inspected regularly

17:07, 29/06/2010

This is one of the important contents detailed in Decree No. 70/2010/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government elaborating the Law on Atomic Energy regarding nuclear power plants.

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According to Article 33 of Decree No. 70/2010/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, the responsibility for safety inspection and reporting is as follows:

- Responsibility:

Organizations with nuclear power plants shall make reports on actual safety of their nuclear power plants, including annual reports and ten-year general reports, to be sent to the safety control agency of the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the radiation and nuclear safety agency of the Ministry of Science and Technology.

Organizations with nuclear power plants shall make extraordinary reports on actual safety at the request of competent state agencies.

- A report on actual safety must contain the following:

+ Satisfaction of conditions specified in the license.

+ Changes compared with the dossier of application for a license;

+ Radiation or nuclear incident(s) (if any) and remedies.

- Responsibilities of the management authority:

The radiation and nuclear safety agency shall set up an inspection office at a nuclear power plant to regularly inspect the safety status of the plant.

The Ministry of Science and Technology shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with the Ministry of Industry and Trade in. guiding in detail the reporting on and inspection of actual safety of nuclear power plants.

View more details at Decree No. 70/2010/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from August 10, 2010.

Nguyen Phu

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