FEDERAL LAW OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

of January 9, 1996 No. 3-FZ

About radiation safety of the population

Accepted by the State Duma on December 5, 1995

This Federal Law determines the legal basis of ensuring radiation safety of the population for the purpose of protection of his health.

Chapter I. General provisions

Article 1. Basic concepts

For the purpose of this Federal Law the following basic concepts are applied:

radiation safety of the population (further - radiation safety) - condition of security of these and future generations of people from impact of ionizing radiation, harmful to their health;

ionizing radiation - the radiation which is created in case of radioactive decay nuclear transformations, braking of charged particles in substance and forms in case of interaction with environment ions of different signs;

natural radiation background - the radiation dose created by the space radiation and radiation of the natural radionuclides which are naturally distributed in the earth, water, air, other elements of the biosphere, foodstuff and human body;

tekhnogenno the changed radiation background - the natural radiation background changed as a result of activities of the person;

effective dose - the size of impact of ionizing radiation used as measure of risk of emergence of the remote effects of radiation of human body and its separate bodies taking into account their radio sensitivity;

the sanitary protection zone - the territory around source of ionizing radiation on which the level of radiation of people in the conditions of normal operation of this source can exceed the set radiation dose limit for the population. In the sanitary protection zone permanent and temporary residence of people is forbidden, the regime of restriction of economic activity is introduced and radiation control is carried out;

observation zone - the territory outside the sanitary protection zone on which radiation control is carried out;

the worker - physical person which permanently or temporarily works directly with sources of ionizing radiation;

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