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ORDER OF THE STATE COMMITTEE OF NUCLEAR REGULATION OF UKRAINE

of November 19, 2007 No. 162

About approval of General provisions of safety of nuclear power plants

According to article 22 of the Law of Ukraine "About use of nuclear energy and radiation safety" and for the purpose of enhancement of regulatory framework of Ukraine on regulation of nuclear and radiation safety of nuclear power plants of PRIKAZYVAYU:

1. Approve General provisions of safety of nuclear power plants (are applied).

2. This order becomes effective since April 1, 2008.

3. (Demchuk O. S.) to provide to department of assessment of safety of nuclear installations state registration of this order in the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine.

4. In a month after state registration to provide to the state scientific and technological center on nuclear and radiation safety (Vasilchenko V. M.) replication and bringing to data of the interested organizations of information on entry into force of new edition of General provisions of safety of nuclear power plants.

5. (Demchuk O. S.) to provide to the state inspectorates for nuclear safety on nuclear power plants together with Department of assessment of safety of nuclear installations control of development, approval of Gosatomregulirovaniya and implementation of necessary organizational and technical actions for implementation of requirements of the specified General provisions with the operating power units EXPERTS.

6. Declare invalid the order of Public administration of nuclear regulation of Ukraine of 09.12.99 N 63 "About approval of General provisions of safety of nuclear power plants", registered in the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine 06.03.2000 for N 132/4353.

7. I reserve control over the implementation of the order.

 

Approved by the Order of the State committee of nuclear regulation of Ukraine of November 19, 2007 No. 162

General provisions of safety of nuclear power plants

I. General provisions

1. These General provisions establish the purpose, the principles and criteria of safety of nuclear power plants, and also requirements for implementation of the main technical and organizational actions directed to their realization and protection of people and the surrounding environment from possible radiative effects.

2. These General provisions are obligatory when implementing the activities connected with placement, design, construction, commissioning, operation, removal from operation of nuclear power plants (power units of nuclear power plants), and also with designing, production and delivery of elements and designs for them.

3. These General provisions extend to nuclear power plants (power units of nuclear power plants) with reactor installations with water under pressure. The procedure and amount of application of these General provisions for nuclear power plants with reactor installations of other types are determined by the operating organization and approves with body of state regulation of nuclear and radiation safety.

4. These General provisions do not extend to the systems of the treatment of spent nuclear fuel located out of the reactor building, and system of the treatment of radioactive waste which do not enter directly production cycle of nuclear power plants, and also on the objects which are in the territory of the platform of nuclear power plants and not entering its project. Feasibility and/or possibility of application of these General provisions for these objects are determined by the operating organization and approves with body of state regulation of nuclear and radiation safety.

5. Entry into force of these General provisions does not involve cancellation or change of effective period of the documents of allowing nature which are earlier issued by body of state regulation of nuclear and radiation safety.

6. Amounts and terms of implementation of requirements of these General provisions on power units of nuclear power plants (nuclear power plants), concerning which the license for the right of implementation of activities at lifecycle stage "operation of nuclear installation" is granted before entry into force of the order of the State inspection of nuclear regulation of Ukraine of March 04, 2024, No. 195, are proved by the operating organization and agree with body of state regulation of nuclear and radiation safety. For nuclear power plants (power units of nuclear power plants) which projects on the date of entry into force of the order of the State inspection of nuclear regulation of Ukraine of March 04, 2024 are not approved No. 195 requirements of these General provisions are fulfilled in full, taking into account project solutions of these power units of nuclear power plants.

7. In case of need disaggregations of requirements of regulations and rules on nuclear and radiation safety, the operating organization are developed taking into account modern achievements of science and technology, the international experience and the approved engineering practice the conforming technical requirements of the operating organization which agree with body of state regulation of nuclear and radiation safety.

8. In case of impossibility to fulfill separate requirements of regulations and rules for nuclear and radiation safety the operating organization performs the analysis of influence of certain spaces on safety of nuclear power plant, if necessary develops the compensating measures, and approves departures and the compensating measures with body of state regulation of nuclear and radiation safety.

9. In these General provisions terms are used in the following values:

1) emergency situation condition of nuclear power plant, characterized by the violation of borders and/or conditions of safe operation which did not turn into accident;

2) accident - operational event in work of nuclear power plant during which there was exit of radioactive materials and/or ionizing radiation out of the limits set by the project of nuclear power plant in the quantity exceeding the limits of safe operation determined by the project of nuclear power plant. Accident is characterized by initial (initial) event, current and effects;

3) administration of the atomic station heads and other officials of nuclear power plant who are given in accordance with the established procedure the rights and to whom obligations and responsibility on safety are assigned during construction, commissioning, operation and removal from operation of nuclear power plant;

4) active zone part of reactor installation in which nuclear fuel, the decelerator, absorber, the heat carrier, levers on the reactivity and elements of designs intended for implementation of the managed chain reaction of separation and transmission of energy to the heat carrier are placed;

5) active system (element, design) - system (element, design) which functioning depends on other system (element, design);

6) the atomic station - the production and technology complex designed for energy production with use of reactor installation (installations), located within the territory determined by the project and staffed by necessary personnel;

7) safety of the atomic station property not to exceed the set limits of radiative effects on personnel, the population and the surrounding environment in case of normal operation of nuclear power plant, during violations of normal operation of nuclear power plant, emergencies and project accidents, and also to limit as far as it is almost possible taking into account economic and social factors, the reached level of science and technology, etc., radiative effects in case of expanded design specifications;

8) biological protection - the physical barrier intended for decrease in impact from ionizing radiation;

9) block board of management part of the power unit of nuclear power plant, located in the rooms which are specially provided by the project of nuclear power plant and intended for centralized management of engineering procedures;

10) construction - full range of activities for construction of nuclear power plant;

11) heavy accident accident during which there is heavy damage of nuclear fuel;

12) heavy damage of nuclear fuel damage during which the maximum project limit of damage of the fuel elements is exceeded;

13) validation process, directed to confirmation by objective proofs of the fact that the end product (product or service) conforms to the established requirements;

14) commissioning - process during which system, elements and designs of the power unit of nuclear power plant begin to function and which provides precommissioning adjustment work, physical and energy start-up, trial operation. Process in commercial operation comes to the end with acceptance of nuclear power plant;

15) big radioactive emission emission of radioactive materials in case of accident in case of which realization of long-term counter-measures outside the platform of nuclear power plant which cannot be limited territorially or in time is necessary;

16) verification process of determination of compliance of service quality or operational parameters of product to necessary characteristics by means of the analysis and provision of objective proofs that the results received at each stage of development answer the established purpose and requirements;

17) initial (initial) event - violation of work (refusal) of system (element, design) nuclear power plant or human error, and also external or internal impacts which lead to violation of normal operation, or limits and/or conditions of safe operation of nuclear power plant. The initial (initial) event covers all dependent refusals which are its consequence;

18) refusal which is not found - system failure (element, design) which is not shown at the time of the origin during operation of nuclear power plant and is not found the provided control facilities according to procedures of maintenance, testing and checks;

19) the refusals for the general reason refusals of systems, elements and designs arising owing to the same event or the reason, in particular owing to human error, shortcomings of the project of nuclear power plant, production and maintenance, internal or external impact;

20) the internal impacts impacts arising on nuclear power plant (the power unit of nuclear power plant) owing to the fires, floodings, high-energy impacts (shock waves, the flying objects, hlestaniye of pipelines, liquid flows, etc.) and changes of parameters of the circle (pressure, temperature, chemical activity, etc.);

21) internal self-security of reactor installation property to ensure safety on the basis of natural feedback and processes;

22) protection set of consecutive physical barriers in depth on the way of distribution of radioactive materials and ionizing radiation in total with the technical means and organizational measures directed to non-admission of variation from normal service conditions, accident prevention and restriction of their effects;

Limiting 23) emergency emission - emergency emission of radioactive materials in case of accident in case of which on border of the sanitary protection zone of nuclear power plant the conditions requiring evacuation of the population according to levels of unconditional correctness according to regulations of radiation safety are created;

24) the deterministic analysis of safety - the analysis of safety of the power unit in case of certain operational conditions, initial (initial) events, emergencies and the course of accident, and comparison of its results to criteria of safety and/or project borders;

25) diagnosing - technical observation of systems (elements, designs) for the purpose of determination of possibility of accomplishment of the functions provided by the project;

26) the additional technical means systems, elements and designs intended for prevention of severe accidents and restriction of their effects in expanded design specifications;

27) the reached level of science and technology - the complex of knowledge received as a result of scientific research, technology, project and design developments which is confirmed with practical experience of application;

28) operational personnel of nuclear power plant - the personnel performing operation of nuclear power plant;

29) operational limits - parameter value and characteristics of condition of systems (elements, designs) and nuclear power plant in general, established by the project for normal operation;

30) operational conditions - the conditions established by the project of nuclear power plant concerning quantity, characteristics, functioning state and maintenance of systems (elements, designs) necessary for work without violation of operational borders;

31) the operation activities directed to achievement by safe method of the purpose for which the nuclear power plant, including work on capacity, was constructed by start-up, stops, testing, maintenance, repairs, overload of nuclear fuel, inspection during operation and other activities connected with it;

32) the operating organization - the legal entity designated by the state performing the activities connected with the choice of the platform, designing, construction, commissioning, operation and removal from operation of nuclear power plants;

33) elements and designs - the equipment, devices, pipelines, cables, building constructions and other products providing accomplishment of the set functions independently or as a part of systems;

34) energy start-up stage of input of the power unit of nuclear power plant in operation during which energy production begins and is performed check of operation of the power unit of nuclear power plant on the power levels determined in the project;

35) the power unit of the atomic station part of nuclear power plant, performing function of nuclear power plant in the amount determined by the project;

36) survivability property of control panels of nuclear power plants to keep capability to perform necessary functions taking into account possible refusals and damages;

37) the providing systems (elements, designs) of safety - system (elements, designs) of nuclear power plants intended for providing systems (elements, designs) of safety by energy, working environment and creations of conditions for their functioning;

38) stocked safety differences between parameter value (characteristic) in case of which there is system failure, element, design (failure to carry out by system, element, design of the set functions), and the actual value of this parameter (characteristic) or value which is received/considered in the analysis of safety;

39) protective systems (elements, designs) of safety - system (elements, designs) of nuclear power plants intended for prevention or restriction of damages of nuclear fuel, the equipment and pipelines containing radioactive materials;

40) external impacts - impacts of natural or technogenic origin, characteristic of the platform of nuclear power plant;

41) zones of emergency planning territory around nuclear power plant for which introduction of urgent counter-measures and other response measures according to regulations of radiation safety is provided;

42) observation territory zone on which impact of radioactive dumpings and emissions of nuclear power plants is possible and on which radiation control is exercised;

43) the probabilistic analysis of safety - the analysis of safety of nuclear power plant (the power unit of nuclear power plant) made for the analysis of probability of origin, ways of development and end states of accidents and also for determination of frequency of damage of nuclear fuel, limiting emergency emission and assessment of radiative effects on the population;

44) the information system system intended for obtaining, processing, storage, display and/or data recording about technical condition of systems, elements and designs, their properties and/or functioning;

45) the channel of system - the part of system performing functions of system in the amount set by the project;

46) qualification of the equipment confirmation of the fact that the equipment within useful life will perform the assigned functions taking into account characteristics of the circle in which it functions (including expanded design specifications);

47) qualification of personnel - the level of professional readiness of personnel of nuclear power plant confirming capability of personnel to perform the functions;

48) the managing system system intended for initiation of work of one or several other systems or processing equipment and/or for direct management by them;

49) managing systems (elements) of safety system (elements) intended for initiation of operation of security systems, control and management by them in the course of accomplishment of the set functions;

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