of August 31, 2000 No. 120-II
About radiation safety
The purpose of this Law is regulation of the relations connected with ensuring radiation safety, protection of life, health and property of citizens, and also the environment from harmful effects of ionizing radiation.
In this Law the following basic concepts are applied:
ionizing radiation - the radiation created in case of radioactive decay, nuclear transformations, braking of charged particles in substance and which in case of interaction with environment forms ions of different signs;
source of ionizing radiation - the device and (or) radioactive material which is letting out or capable to emit ionizing radiation;
users of sources of ionizing radiation - the legal entities and physical persons extracting, making, developing, overworking, using, storing, servicing, transporting, neutralizing, utilizing and burying sources of ionizing radiation;
observation zone - the territory outside the sanitary protection zone on which radiation monitoring is carried out;
radiation accident - the loss of management of source of ionizing radiation caused by defect of the equipment, actions (failure to act) of workers (personnel), emergency situations of natural and technogenic nature which could give or led to radiation of citizens above of the established regulations or to radioactive environmental pollution;
radiation safety - condition of security of citizens and the environment from harmful effects of ionizing radiation;
radioactive waste - the substances in any aggregate state which are not intended for further use, containing radionuclides with the activity level exceeding the values established in acts of the legislation;
the sanitary protection zone - the territory around source of ionizing radiation in which the level of radiation of citizens in the conditions of normal operation of this source can exceed the set main limit of dose of radiation for the population;
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