LAW OF UKRAINE

of October 17, 2019 No. 208-IX

About introduction of amendments to some laws of Ukraine concerning enhancement of the legislation in the field of the treatment of radioactive waste

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine decides:

I. Make changes to such laws of Ukraine:

1. In article 1 of the Law of Ukraine "About use of nuclear energy and radiation safety" (Sheets of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 1995, No. 12, Art. 81 with subsequent changes):

paragraphs the seventh, the fourteenth and seventeenth to state to part one in the following edition:

"burial of radioactive waste - placement of radioactive waste in storage, without intention of their withdrawal, for the purpose of deduction and isolation of radioactive waste from the surrounding environment";

"radioactive waste - material objects and substances, activity of radionuclides or radioactive pollution of which exceeds the limits set by regulations provided that use of these objects and substances is not provided in any engineering procedure or production (except the Section XIII where this term is used in value according to part two of this Article). Also fulfilled closed sources of ionizing radiation after entering of the relevant information into the State register of radioactive waste belong to radioactive waste";

"specialized enterprise according to the treatment of radioactive waste - the company (consolidation) which acts on the basis of the license for collection, conversion, transportation, storage and/or burial of the radioactive waste transferred to the possession of the state";

third to state part in the following edition:

"The nuclear installations and objects intended for the treatment of radioactive waste which has nation-wide value are:

nuclear power plants;

nuclear heating plants;

research nuclear reactors;

the storages intended for storage of the fulfilled nuclear fuel or highly active radioactive waste with project storage duration more than 30 years (except the installations included in production cycle of nuclear installation);

geological storages for burial of radioactive waste and/or spent nuclear fuel";

add with part five of such content:

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