First National Report of the Russian Federation on compliance with the obligations of the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management THE NATIONAL REPORT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION ON COMPLIANCE WITH THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE JOINT CONVENTION ON THE SAFETY OF SPENT FUEL MANAGEMENT AND THE SAFETY OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT Prepared for the second Review Meeting in frames of the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management Moscow 2006 First National Report of the Russian Federation on compliance with the obligations of the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management This first National Report of the Russian Federation has been drafted in accordance with Article 32 of the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management. The Report describes in detail the obligations concerning the Joint Convention and compliance with them by the Russian Federation. The Report has been prepared by the Federal Atomic Energy Agency with involvement of: • Federal Environmental, Industrial and Nuclear Supervision Service • Federal Agency for Construction and Housing Utilities • Federal Medical and Biological Agency • Nuclear Safety Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IBRAE RAS) 2 First National Report of the Russian Federation on compliance with the obligations of the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management List of Abbreviations................................................................................................ 5 Section А. Introduction.......................................................................................... 7 A.1. Purpose of the Report ................................................................................... 7 A.2. Structure of the Report.................................................................................. 7 А.3. Main Topics of the Report and Near-Term Initiatives ........................................ 8 Section B. Policies and Practices (Article 32) ......................................................... 12 B.1. SNF Management Policy................................................................................12 B.2. SNF Management Practices ...........................................................................12 B.3. Criteria for Defining and Categorizing Radioactive Waste .................................14 B.4. Radioactive Waste Management Policy...........................................................15 B.5. Radioactive Waste Management Practices ......................................................17 Section C. Scope of Application (Article 3) ............................................................ 18 Section D. Inventories and Lists (Article 32).......................................................... 19 Section E. Legislative and Regulatory System........................................................ 22 E.1. Implementing Measures (Article 18)...............................................................22 E.2. Legislative and Regulatory System (Article 19)................................................23 Section F. Other General Safety Provisions............................................................ 36 F.1. Responsibility of the License Holder (Article 21) ..............................................36 F.2. Human and Financial Resources (Article 22) ...................................................37 F.3. Quality Assurance (Article 23)........................................................................41 F.4. Operational Radiation Protection (Article 24)...................................................42 F.5. Emergency Preparedness (Article 25) .............................................................45 F.6. Decommissioning (Article 26) ........................................................................46 Section G. Safety of Spent Fuel Management........................................................ 47 G.1. General Safety Requirements (Article 4).........................................................47 G.2. Existing Facilities (Article 5) ..........................................................................52 G.3. Siting of proposed facilities (Article 6)............................................................58 G.4. Design and construction of facilities (Article 7)................................................60 G.5. Assessment of safety of facilities (Article 8)....................................................61 G.6. Operation of facilities (Article 9) ....................................................................62 G.7. Disposal of spent fuel (Article 10)..................................................................63 Section H. Safety of radioactive waste management................................................ 64 Section I. Transboundary movement ...................................................................... 70 Section J. Disused sealed sources ........................................................................ 74 Section K. Planned activity in safety enhancement ................................................ 76 Section L. Annexes.............................................................................................. 77 3 First National Report of the Russian Federation on compliance with the obligations of the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management Annex B1. SNF management and reprocessing..................................................................77 Annex B2. RW management and disposal .........................................................................84 Annex E. Information on the principal legal documents ......................................................88 Annex F1. Operating Organizations ................................................................................105 Annex F2. Facility Category of Hazard ............................................................................108 Annex G. Basic parameters of the storage facilities ..........................................................108 4 First National Report of the Russian Federation on compliance with the obligations of the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management List of Abbreviations AMB - An abbreviated name of a nuclear reactor type ARMS - Automated Radiation Monitoring System BN - fast neutron reactor Bq - Becquerel (activity unit of measurement) CA - Critical Assembly (see context) CA - Controlled Area (see context) Ci - Curie (activity unit of measure) CMP - Chepetsk Mechanical Plant CMW - Chemical Metallurgy Works, Krasnoyarsk DACpubl - Derived Air Concentration for the public EDR - Equivalent Dose Rate EGP - Graphite loop-type power reactor ETC - Emergency Technical Center FA - Fuel Assembly FL - Federal Law FR - Fuel Rod FSUE - Federal State Unitary Enterprise FTP - Federal Targeted Program HMP - Hydrometallurgical Plant , Lermontov GSP NFCF - General Safety Provisions for Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities Gy - Grey (absorbed dose unit of measure) HCS - Harmful Chemical Substances HLW - High Level Waste HWR - Heavy-Water Reactor IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency ICRP - International Commission for Radiation Protection ILW - Intermediate Level Waste IPPE - Institute of Physics and Power Engineering named after A.I. Leipunsky IR - Ionizing Radiation IRS - Ionizing Radiation Source LLW - Low Level Waste LRW - Liquid Radioactive Waste MCC - Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Mining and Chemical Combine” MSC - Murmansk Steamship Company MOE - Ministry of the Russian Federation for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination of Natural Disaster Consequences MRF - Mobile Reprocessing Facility 5 First National Report of the Russian Federation on compliance with the obligations of the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management NFC - Nuclear Fuel Cycle NIIAR - Federal State Unitary Enterprise “State Research Center of the Russian Federation - Research Institute of Atomic Reactors” NIF - Nuclear Icebreaker Fleet NM - Nuclear Materials NPI - Nuclear Power Installation NPP - Nuclear Power Plant SJR - Safety Justification Report OSPORB - Basic sanitary rules of radiation safety PMCPA - Priargunskoye Mining and Chemical Production Association PUE - Rules of layout of electrical installations RD - Regulatory Document R&D - Research and Development RBMK - Uranium-graphite large capacity channel-type reactor REML - RadioEcological Monitoring Laboratory RF - Russian Federation Rosatom - Federal Agency of Atomic Energy Rostechnadzor - Federal Environmental, Industrial and Nuclear Supervision Service RR - Research Reactor RS - Radioactive Substances (see context) RSS - Radiation Safety Standards RTG - Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator RW - Radioactive Waste SC Radon - Special Combine Radon SCA - SubCritical Assembly SCC - Federal State Unitary Enterprise “Siberian Chemical Combine” SCR - Self-sustained Chain Reaction SFA - Spent* Fuel Assembly SNF - Spent* Nuclear Fuel (termed “irradiated” in a number of regulations of the Russian Federation) SPDS - Safety Parameter Display System SRW - Solid Radioactive Waste Sv - Sievert (equivalent dose unit of measure) SZ - Surveillance Zone TPP - Thermal Power Plant VNIIAES - All-Russia