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This document describes the existing regional system for regulating
and monitoring the physical protection, control, and accounting of nuclear
materials and installations, based on the activity of Gosatomnadzor’s Central
Region. In addition, this document also includes a description of
regulation and monitoring functions and procedures, a packet of regulatory
documents, and instructions regarding nuclear materials physical protection,
control, and accounting, the forms for orders and information flow during
the Central Region’s regulation and monitoring of nuclear materials physical
protection, control, and accounting.
Since the founding of the nuclear industry in the USSR, the USSR Ministry of Medium Machine Building, the predecessor of the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy (Minatom), served as exploiting organization and monitor of the status of nuclear materials physical protection, control, and accounting (MPC&A). Since 1992, significant changes have taken place, both in the management structure of the nuclear industry, and in the redistribution of authority for monitoring MPC&A. The President of the Russian Federation issued a number of normative acts to create the State Committee for Monitoring Nuclear and Radiation Safety under the Presidency of the Russian Federation (Gosatomnadzor), which was given the responsibility for organizing and implementing state regulation and monitoring the safe use of nuclear materials, nuclear power, and radioactive substances. Gosatomnadzor’s objectives, functions, rights, and responsibility were also established, and a List of Types of Activities Subject to Regulation by Gosatomnadzor was approved. A significant event that predetermined government attention to issues concerning the safekeeping of nuclear materials was Russian Presidential Edict No. 1923, dated 15 September 1994, “On Preliminary Measures to Develop a System of Accounting and Safekeeping of Nuclear Materials” and, issued in accordance with the Edict, Russian Governmental Decree No. 34, dated 13 January 1995, “On Preliminary Work to Develop and Introduce a State System for Control and Accounting of Nuclear Materials for 1995.” The Russian federal law “On the Use of Nuclear Power,” passed by the
State Duma on 20 October 1995, also determined the legal basis and principles
for regulating situations arising from the use of nuclear power, and strengthened
the power of federal organs of executive power and state safety regulation
in relation to MPC&A.
2.1. The fulfillment of Gosatomnadzor’s assigned function of state regulating and monitoring MPC&A is provided for by Gosatomnadzor’s infrastructure. The Central Region is one of seven regional organizations within Gosatomnadzor. 2.2. The following are subject to regulation and monitoring by Gosatomnadzor’s Central Region:
Among them are the following:
Facilities subject to monitoring have all types of nuclear materials on the balance sheet, both in accounting units and bulk form. Large quantities of various nuclear materials in bulk form is typical. 2.4. The following main types of activity take place at facilities subject to monitoring:
Within the scope of its authority, the Region makes decisions that are mandatory for the enterprises and organizations located within the territory of the Russian Federation where the Region conducts its activity, regardless of their subordination or form of ownership, and for officials and citizens. The Region works in cooperation with local organs of executive power and other federal monitoring organs, and cooperates with the Administration of the Central Apparatus of Gosatomnadzor, the Scientific and Technical Center for Nuclear and Radiation Safety, and other organs of Gosatomnadzor on issues under the Region’s jurisdiction. Methodical management of the activities of the Region for these functions is implemented by the Administrations of the Central Apparatus of Gosatomnadzor within the scope of their authority. The structure of the Region is approved by the Chairman of Gosatomnadzor. Management of the Region is implemented solely by the head of Administration of the Region. The head of the Administration of the Region answers directly to the
Chairman of Gosatomnadzor.
3.1. The primary objectives of the Central Region are: 3.1.1. To organize and implement monitoring of the compliance of associations, enterprises, institutions, organizations (regardless of their subordination or form of ownership--hereafter, enterprises), and officials and citizens with Russian federal legislation on ensuring nuclear and radiation safety during the production, handling, and peaceful use of nuclear energy, nuclear materials, radioactive substances, and items made therefrom, as well as the rules and norms regarding nuclear and radiation safety. 3.1.2. To implement monitoring of organizations and the status of nuclear materials physical protection, control, and accounting; monitoring of organizations and the status of storage of radioactive substances and items made therefrom; and monitoring of the handling of radioactive wastes and spent nuclear materials, their disposal, and burial. 3.1.3. To organize and implement monitoring of the design, construction, and preparation of equipment vital to the safety of dangerous nuclear- and radiation-related facilities, as well as the construction of these facilities and installation of equipment. 3.1.4. To monitor the provision of guarantees for the nonproliferation of nuclear technologies, materials, and their physical protection. 3.1.5 To participate in:
3.1.7. To inform organs of local executive power and the population
of the territory in which the Region conducts its activity of changes in
the status of nuclear and/or radiation safety at enterprises subject to
monitoring.
4.1. The Region’s primary objectives regarding control and accounting of nuclear materials, providing guarantees for the nonproliferation of nuclear technology and materials, and physical protection are:
5.1. Gosatomnadzor’s Central Region’s Regional Inspectorate for nuclear materials protection, control, and accounting (RI MPC&A) is a subdivision of the Region and conducts its activities on the basis of the “Statute on the Regional Inspectorate of the Central Region of Gosatomnadzor for Monitoring the Physical Protection, Control, and Accounting of Nuclear Materials,” approved by the head of the Administration of the Central Region on 20 February 1996, the “Statute on the Region,” and the “Statute on Gosatomnadzor.” In its activities, RI MPC&A is guided by the Constitution of the Russian Federation, federal legislation, edicts and directives of the President of the Russian Federation, and decrees, orders, and directives of Gosatomnadzor and the Region. 5.2. The activities of RI MPC&A cover facilities using nuclear energy subject to monitoring by the Region. 5.3. The administration of RI MPC&A is implemented by the head of the inspectorate, who reports directly the head of the regional Administration. The general management of RI MPC&A’s activities and the coordination of its work with other subdivisions of the Region is implemented by the deputy head of the regional Administration. Methodical management of RI MPC&A’s activities is implemented by Gosatomnadzor’s Directorate for monitoring nuclear and radiation safety at fuel cycle facilities and Gosatomnadzor’s Directorate for monitoring guarantees for the nonproliferation of nuclear technologies, materials, and their physical protection, within these directorates’ scope of authority. 5.4. The head of RI MPC&A is appointed to (and relieved from) the post by order of the Chairman of Gosatomnadzor from a proposal drawn up by the head of the regional Administration and with the approval of the deputy Chairman of Gosatomnadzor implementing the coordination and organization of the duties of the regional organs. Other employees of RI MPC&A are appointed to (and relieved from) their posts by order of the head of the regional Administration from a proposal drawn up by the head of RI MPC&A and with the approval of the appropriate deputy head of the regional Administration. 5.5. RI MPC&A conducts its activities according to the work plans drawn up in accordance with the Statute on planning and reporting on the main activities in the Gosatomnadzor system. 5.6. The rights and obligations of the management and inspection staff of RI MPC&A are determined by “Rights of officials of Gosatomnadzor” and official instructions. 5.7. RI MPC&A conducts its activities in cooperation with other divisions of the Region and with regional organs for state regulation and monitoring and local representative and executive agencies within the territories where enterprises subject to monitoring by the Region are located. 5.8. RI MPC&A, within the scope of its authority, as charged
by the Region leadership, makes decisions that are binding for enterprises
subject to monitoring (regardless of their subordination or form of ownership),
officials, and citizens.
6.1. RI MPC&A, in accordance with the objectives of the Region and with its assigned tasks: 6.1.1 Organizes and implements, at enterprises subject to monitoring, the monitoring of:
6.1.3. Prepares (collects the necessary initial information for conducting an inspection) and conducts inspections (investigations) concerning the implementation of monitoring activity at enterprises subject to monitoring. 6.1.4. Participates in inspections (investigations) conducted at enterprises subject to monitoring by Gosatomnadzor, including those conducted during the review of enterprises’ applications to receive permits (licenses) for their respective types of activities. 6.1.5. Implements the collection, registration, and analysis of quarterly, semi-annual, and annual reports and supplementary information from territorial inspections. 6.1.6. Participates, in the established procedure, in the state registration of enterprises subject to monitoring; prepares proposals for the alteration and expansion of the list of enterprises subject to monitoring. 6.1.7. Prepares proposals on the improvement of MPC&A manuals and normative technical documents at enterprises subject to monitoring. 6.1.8. Participates, at the instruction of the Regional administration, in the review of drafts of Gosatomnadzor manuals. 6.1.9. Implements cooperation with Gosatomnadzor’s Directorate on Monitoring the Nuclear and Radiation Safety at Fuel Cycle Enterprises and the Directorate on Providing Guarantees for the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Technologies and Materials and their Physical Protection. 6.1.10. Applies sanctions to enterprises subject to monitoring if they violate the norms and rules of nuclear materials protection, control, and accounting, and the conditions of operation set forth in the permit (license). 6.1.11. Creates and presents quarterly, semi-annual, and annual reports to the Directorate on Guarantees. 6.2. RI MPC&A has the following rights for fulfilling its assigned tasks and functions: 6.2.1. To visit, unhindered, enterprises subject to monitoring in order to conduct monitoring activities. 6.2.2. To conduct inspections (investigations) concerning the implementation of monitoring at enterprises subject to monitoring; to obtain from the managers and officials of an enterprise the necessary explanations and information on questions that arise during inspections (investigations); to conduct joint inspections (investigations) with other state monitoring organs; to participate in inspections (investigations) conducted by Gosatomnadzor and the Region; to recruit (when necessary) specialists from exploiting organizations and other monitoring organs to participate in inspections (investigations), with the approval of the appropriate officials. 6.2.3. To issue mandatory orders to managers and officials of enterprises subject to monitoring on eliminating discovered violations of normative technical safety documents or conditions of operation for issued permits (licenses), and the reasons and conditions leading to such violations as well as on halting work done in violation of MPC&A requirements; to control the fulfillment of orders, including those issued by Gosatomnadzor and the Region. 6.2.4. To participate, within the scope of its authority, in licensing types of activity at enterprises subject to monitoring, in accordance with the Statute on Licensing. 6.2.5. To verify the observance of the established procedure at enterprises subject to monitoring for training personnel, clearing them for work, and verifying their knowledge of normative safety documents. 6.2.6. To participate, in the established procedure, in testing the managers, officials, and engineering and technical workers at enterprises subject to monitoring on their knowledge of normative technical safety documents. 6.2.7. To hold accountable, within the scope of its authority and in the procedure determined by legislation and Gosatomnadzor manuals, the managers and officials of enterprises subject to monitoring who allow violations of the requirements of safety documentation. 6.2.8. To send materials on violations of Russian federal legislation and normative technical MPC&A documents to law enforcement agencies, when necessary (by agreement with the leadership of the Region). 6.2.9. To participate, at the instruction of the Regional administration,
in international cooperation on issues of accounting and control of nuclear
materials, and physical protection of nuclear materials and installations
at enterprises subject to monitoring.
7.1. The Region, in accordance with its assigned tasks (within the scope of its authority) participates in the review of enterprises’ application materials for permits (licenses) for the stated type of activity and issues its conclusions and proposals for them in the Conditions of Operation of the permits (licenses). 7.2. The Region, at the instruction of the Central apparatus of Gosatomnadzor, provides for the conducting of inspections (investigations) of enterprises in the process of reviewing their application materials for permits (licenses) and presents acts to Gosatomnadzor on the results of the inspections with proposals on drafting the Conditions of Operation for the issued permits (licenses). 7.3. The Region organizes and implements, in the established procedure, the inspection-related conveying of permits (licenses) issued by Gosatomnadzor for types of activity at enterprises subject to monitoring. 7.4. The Region, if the Conditions of Operation of permits (licenses)
or the requirements of normative documents on nuclear materials protection,
control, and accounting are violated, and if the conditions of operation
are changed, can apply sanctions (orders, fines, notices) against the owner
of the permit (license) up to suspending the permit (license) and sending
Gosatomnadzor officials proposals to limit or revoke the permit (license).
8.1. Analysis of acting documentation and the possibilities of implementing it. 8.1.1. The primary task of state monitoring in any area, including the area of MPC&A, is monitoring facilities’ observance of documentation requirements (norms and rules). 8.1.2. Acting normative documentation on nuclear materials physical protection, control, and accounting naturally reflects the essence of the country’s functioning MPC&A system. The purpose of Russia’s present control and accounting system is not directly related to the necessity of fulfilling intergovernmental agreements on guarantees. The system functions according to the dictates of the goals of a planned economy. Important criteria when keeping a nuclear materials balance sheet are the norms for irretrievable losses, which are established based on experimental and statistical data. Errors in the balance sheet are not determined and in practice are treated as irretrievable losses. Thus, in terms of goals and criteria, Russia’s existing system of control and accounting of materials does not correspond to IAEA recommendations. 8.1.3. Historically, the system was formed in such a way that normative documents do not exist on the federal level. Development and adoption of normative documents on MPC&A was done only by the Ministry of Medium Machine Building of the USSR (now the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy). 8.1.4. At present at facilities subject to monitoring, seven departmental normative documents, published in the 1970s, are active concerning MPC&A. These documents are included in the Confirmed List of Main Normative Documents used in Gosatomnadzor’s monitoring activities:
8.1.5. Monitoring activity in the area of nuclear materials control and accounting must be implemented in accordance with organizational and methodological manuals. 8.1.6. At present, eight manuals developed by Gosatomnadzor have been included in the confirmed list of acting manuals of Gosatomnadzor. Two of them contain methodological recommendations to enterprises and organizations regarding the control and accounting of nuclear materials in both unit and bulk form. The remainder deal with issues of organizing monitoring and the conducting of inspections on the status of nuclear materials control and accounting and reporting. But all these manuals are oriented toward a system of nuclear materials control and accounting that meets IAEA requirements, which is not, as stated earlier, the kind of system that exists in Russia. Therefore, in practical monitoring activity, these documents cannot be fully used. Moreover, this situation has produced a number of instances of differences between inspectorates and enterprises. Thus, a certain amount of disparity exists between the industry’s acting normative documentation and the manuals that Gosatomnadzor uses. 8.1.7. A number of manuals concerning control and accounting of nuclear materials were developed directly in the Region. They are, for example, the Statute on the Division (Inspectorate) for Monitoring the Control and Accounting of Nuclear Materials, which determines its tasks and jurisdiction, and the functional obligations of the inspection staff involved in monitoring activities, as well as separate organizational documents. 8.1.8. Acting normative documentation is departmental and is oriented to the existing system of MC&A, which is not directly related to the fulfillment of intergovernmental agreements on guarantees and does not meet IAEA recommendations. 8.2. Prospects for improving (developing) normative documents and manuals concerning MC&A from the Region’s point of view. 8.2.1. Regarding improving documentation, first of all, the previously mentioned discrepancies between acting normative documents and manuals should be eliminated. Obviously, it would be expedient to do this in conformity with a new system of materials control and accounting, the concept for which is oriented to IAEA recommendations and agreements on guarantees. 8.2.2. Presidential Edict No. 1923, dated 15 September 1994, and Governmental Decree No. 34, dated 13 January 1995, provide for the foundation of a State System for the Control and Accounting of Nuclear Materials in Russia. The existence of the procedure for monitoring the status of control and accounting of nuclear materials within the framework of the State System for Control and Accounting is determined by the federal law “On the Use of Atomic Energy.” 8.2.3. The created State System for the Control and Accounting of Nuclear Materials will stipulate the use of non-destructive inspection methods and equipment, computerized accounting and control, the presence of automated work stations, the presence of various levels of information systems, the exchange of formalized information, and other possible uses of technology. The functioning of such a system will, without question, require the creation of a corresponding packet of normative documents, including federal documents, and the adoption of necessary changes in the manuals on monitoring activities of Gosatomnadzor. 8.2.4. It should be taken into account that for a certain time period, both the old and new systems of control and accounting of nuclear materials and their respective normative documents will operate in parallel. Obviously, the adoption of a new system of nuclear materials control and accounting will require the development of organizational and methodological manuals at the Regional level as well. 8.2.5. In the near future the Region intends to concentrate on the development of inspection programs in conformity with both the existing system of nuclear materials control and accounting and elements of the new system, the adoption of which is begins at individual enterprises subject to monitoring. 8.2.6. Gosatomnadzor’s acting manuals, developed for use in a system of nuclear materials control and accounting created within the framework of IAEA recommendations, cannot be fully used in actual monitoring activities. 8.2.7. The adoption and functioning of the new State System for
the Control and Accounting of Nuclear Materials or its individual elements
requires the development of a corresponding packet of normative documents,
including ones on the federal level, and additional manuals for Gosatomnadzor,
including ones on the Regional level.
9.1. The main tasks of the Region include the organization and implementation of monitoring the status of storage and accounting of nuclear materials, providing guarantees for the nonproliferation of nuclear technologies and materials and the physical protection of nuclear installations and nuclear materials. Within the framework of this task, the Region organizes and implements monitoring of the status of nuclear materials physical protection, control, and accounting (MPC&A) at enterprises subject to monitoring. 9.2. Regarding the organization of monitoring the status of MPC&A, the following should be considered the main functions: 9.2.1. Improving the structure of the region in accordance with the tasks of monitoring MPC&A. 9.2.2. Education, practical training, and improving the qualifications of the region’s specialists. 9.2.3. Developing inspection programs and methodological recommendations with consideration for the specifics of enterprises subject to monitoring. 9.2.4. Analysis of monitoring practices, development of proposals and recommendations for their improvement. 9.2.5. Creation and introduction of a regional (Central Region) data base on monitoring the status of MPC&A. 9.2.6. Providing for interaction with the Central apparatus of Gosatomnadzor and facilities subject to monitoring. 9.3. Regarding implementing monitoring of the status of MPC&A, the main functions are as follows: 9.3.1. Conducting strategic inspections at facilities subject to monitoring, including monitoring of the fulfillment of the Conditions of Operation of issued permits (licenses). 9.3.2. Conducting targeted inspections at facilities subject to monitoring, including those conducted in the interests of preparing proposals for the conditions of operation for permits (licenses) issued for types of activities. 9.3.3. Issuing orders to facilities subject to monitoring as a result of inspection activities. 9.4. The Region does work to realize all the above functions. 9.5. The acting structure of the inspectorate for the status of MPC&A has two levels: 9.5.1. Level one--the administration of the Region, including RI MPC&A, provides for the planning, preparation, and conducting of (and operative management during) inspections, develops recommendations on improving monitoring practices, conducts control and analysis of inspection reports and report documents from facilities subject to monitoring. 9.5.2. Level two--territorial inspectorates at facilities (installations) subject to monitoring implement monitoring activities directly, ensure control over the fulfillment of the conditions of operation of permits (licenses), issue orders on inspection results, ensure efficient interaction with control and accounting services at enterprises subject to monitoring, and prepare proposals for the improvement of monitoring practices. 9.6. Methodologically, organizing the preparation for and conducting of inspections to monitor the status of MPC&A at enterprises subject to monitoring includes the following stages: 9.6.1. Preparation:
9.6.4. Delivering these acts to the head of the enterprise.
10.1. General provisions. 10.1.1. Strategic monitoring of the status of control and accounting of nuclear materials may be conducted both in accordance with a quarterly inspection plan or on an unplanned basis. 10.1.2. The administration of the institute must be notified that a planned inspection will be conducted, as must the head of the division being inspected. 10.1.3. Before a planned inspection begins, the accounting authority (hereafter, the authority) must do the following:
10.1.6. The inspection must be conducted in the presence of an authorized representative of the enterprise or the head of the division. In addition, the presence of the curator of the division is also desired. 10.1.7. The inspection must be conducted in accordance with requirements on ensuring a regime of secrecy, nuclear and radiation safety, and physical protection of nuclear materials. 10.2. Initial stage of conducting an inspection. 10.2.1. Before the inspection begins, it is necessary to create a plan or program for conducting the inspection in the given division. 10.2.2. Before verifying the status of control and accounting of nuclear materials, it is necessary to hold a discussion with the division’s administration in order to explain the particulars of handling nuclear materials in the given division, during which the following information must be obtained:
10.2.3. In the course of such re-verification, the inspector must do the following:
Verify that the division’s inventory acts for the past year, as well as acts on remnants, were drawn up correctly. 10.2.7. Become familiar with the results of previous inspectors’ verifications of the division, data from the department’s inspectorate, as well as official investigations of facts concerning the discovery of insufficient or excess nuclear materials. Pay attention to notes made earlier. Verify the accuracy of the curator’s journal. Determine whether the frequency of verifications in the division corresponds to the actual presence and categories of nuclear materials. 10.2.8. Determine the basis for the presence of nuclear materials in the division’s balance sheet. Verify that the subject matter is present in the division. Evaluate the degree to which the division works with nuclear materials, including individual scientific groups and executors. 10.3. Verification of accounting documents for bulk nuclear materials. 10.3.1. Verify with the authorities that the receipt/expense journal for nuclear materials is kept correctly. Verification is conducted to determine:
10.3.3. Verify the presence and formulation of documents that serve as the basis for transferring nuclear materials to other accounting categories (acts on categorizing as waste, on processing materials, on categorizing as items or placing under accounting as accounting units, on incorporating nuclear materials in items, acts for opening containers, and so forth). 10.3.4. Verify, with the authority, the journal for accounting for nuclear materials by executor. Verification is conducted for:
10.4.1. Verify the regularity with which the executors are briefed on the institute’s instructions, if that is stipulated by internal instructions. 10.4.2. Verify the personal accounts of the executors. Verification is conducted for:
10.5.1. Verification that the nuclear materials are correctly stored. In the course of verification, it is necessary to establish the following:
Establish the presence of evidence and notes on verification, pay attention to the time period for verification. 10.5.3. Verify the actual quantity of nuclear materials available for qualitative and quantitative identification. Verification is conducted by sample or general weighing, calculations, and measurements. When doing this, one must use equipment that is permanently calibrated, making it possible to measure the quantity of nuclear material with the required level of accuracy. 10.5.4. Nuclear materials located in sealed containers may be identified by the presence of an undisturbed seal from an inspector or a seal or stamp from the institute or the supplier enterprise, on the condition that the inspector is given documents confirming the use of these measures of controlling access to nuclear materials. 10.5.5. The receipts for nuclear materials placed in secure storage in the storage facility are retained and attached to the materials. 10.5.6. Nuclear material that is in use at the time of verification is identified on the basis of data from the use-accounting documentation. 10.5.7. Nuclear material taken for unit accounting is verified by accounting numbers. 10.5.8. The presence of nuclear materials located within complex items is verified by presenting these items, on the condition that the seal is unbroken and presenting documents confirming the use of this measure to control access. 10.5.9. Nuclear materials kept on the balance sheet and located in the central storage facility must be stored in containers sealed with the official seals of the supplier enterprise or personal seals or stamps of authorities of the enterprise’s structural divisions (or curators of the control and methodology group). Such nuclear materials can be identified by the presence of undisturbed seals, on the condition that the inspector is shown documents confirming the use of this measure to control access to nuclear materials. 10.6. Verification of use-accounting documents. 10.6.1. Verification of use-accounting documents is conducted in order to assess the quality of accounting during operations of nuclear materials handling. Entries in use-accounting documents must clearly record all operations and stages of the technological process, the quantity of processed nuclear material, the names of personnel working with nuclear materials, references to acts and other documents recording changes in the status or category of nuclear materials accounting. 10.6.2. In the course of studying use-accounting documents it is necessary to establish the actual quantity of processed nuclear material in the course of each operation. The inspector must draw conclusions on the following:
10.7.1. Verify that the representative correctly maintains the receipt/expense journal for items. Verification is done for:
10.7.4. Verification of the correct storage of items. In the course of verification, it is necessary to establish the following:
10.7.6. Items kept in secure storage bear preserved receipts. 10.8. Verification of the results of physical inventories. 10.8.1. When conducting an inspection of the results of physical inventories of nuclear materials, it is necessary to use recommendations from points 10.2.1, 10.2.4, 10.2.6, 10.3.1-10.3.3, 10.5.2-10.5.9, 10.7.2, 10.7.3, 10.7.5, and 10.7.6 of this description of procedures. 10.9. Maintaining the nuclear materials balance sheet. 10.9.1. A nuclear materials balance sheet is maintained separately for each accounting category of nuclear materials and items. 10.9.2. When maintaining the nuclear materials balance sheet, if the disparity between data from accounting or accounting report documentation and the actual present quantity of nuclear materials--taking into account corrections for handling nuclear materials in the period since the last inventory (removal of remnants)--exceeds the absolute identification error for bulk nuclear materials, or when items made from nuclear materials and placed under unit accounting are not presented, it is necessary to repeat the verification. If the discrepancy exists after verification is repeated, it is necessary to notify the enterprise’s administration and the head of the inspectorate and organize the sealing of the nuclear material storage facilities. 10.10. Formulating inspection results. 10.10.1. Results of planned inspections are formulated in a standardized Order. 10.10.2. Results of targeted inspections of the status of nuclear materials control and accounting are formulated in acts regarding orders. 10.11. Accepted terminology in the Description of Procedures for Conducting Inspections. 10.11.1. Inspector--employee of Gosatomnadzor who conducts inspections (investigations) of enterprises. 10.11.2. Qualitative identification of nuclear materials--determining the isotopic composition and concentration of nuclear materials and the degree of their enrichment with fissile isotopes. 10.11.3. Quantitative (full) identification of nuclear materials--determining the quantity of nuclear materials by compound and/or pure weight. 10.11.4. Control and methodology group (CMG)--a specialized division of an institute that implements control over handling nuclear materials in the institute’s divisions. 10.11.5. Curator--a member of the CMG who is given the responsibility of verifying the status of accounting, control, storage, and physical protection of nuclear materials in a given division. 10.11.6. Compound weight of nuclear materials--the total weight (net weight) of the mixture of nuclear material isotopes with other substances (O, N, F, C, Al, Si, Zr, Nb, etc.). 10.11.7. Handling nuclear materials--any activity involving changes in the physical or chemical condition of nuclear materials or the transfer thereof. 10.11.8. Chief executor--the individual who receives nuclear materials from the accounting representative for conducting work and implements the accounting thereof at the workplace in a personal account. 10.11.9. List of inventoried quantity of nuclear materials--a list maintained at each measurement control point (MCP) of a given material balance zone (MBZ), containing information on the quantity and location of nuclear materials included in the accounting of the MBZ and created using account documents. 10.11.10. Personnel--workers of a division conducting work with nuclear materials, but not having personal accounts. 10.11.11. Planned inspection--an inspection conducted in the procedure for strategic monitoring on the basis of a quarterly plan. 10.11.12. Items--items made from nuclear materials or containing nuclear material and included in unit accounting. 10.11.13. Accounting authority--an individual given the responsibility for accounting and control while materials are handled in the division. 10.11.14. Accounting documents--a collection of documents reflecting the quantity of each type of nuclear material present and any changes involving them. 10.11.15. Use-accounting documents--a collection of documents that contain data on the location of each accounting position at each moment in time, initial date necessary for calculating weight quantities from the results of sampling and chemical and other analyses, initial data necessary for calculating weight quantities of nuclear material undergoing technological processes, description of sequential actions taken to determine the actual quantity of nuclear material present with indication of the date and the results of such actions, description of the actions taken to establish the reason for and size of accidental losses in nuclear materials that took place or may take place. 10.11.16. Pure weight of nuclear materials--weight of the mixture
of isotopes of fissile elements (uranium, plutonium) contained in the nuclear
material.
11.1. In accordance with the Statute on planning and reporting in the Gosatomnadzor system and the Statute on reporting in the Gosatomnadzor system on issues of monitoring the status of control and accounting of nuclear materials and providing guarantees for their nonproliferation, the Region develops yearly and quarterly work plans and presents quarterly, semi-annual, and annual reports to the Central Apparatus of Gosatomnadzor. 11.1.1. The Region develops its yearly plan on the basis of Gosatomnadzor’s Prospective and Complex work plans. In the Region’s yearly work plan, the following sections must be included in the required order:
11.1.3. The yearly and quarterly inspection plans are based upon measures in the Region’s yearly work plan, manuals and methodological documents, decrees and orders from Gosatomnadzor, instructions on Gosatomnadzor and the Region, and the analysis of the status of safety. 11.1.4. The Region’s annual report, semi-annual report, and quarterly report on MPC&A monitoring issues are based on the analysis of information and reports presented by territorial inspectorates. Reports are formulated by RI MPC&A. 11.2. The document flow among the Region, the Central Apparatus
(Administration) of Gosatomnadzor, and the territorial inspectorates is
implemented in the form of official correspondence; annual, semi-annual,
and quarterly reports; manuals; and normative, informational, methodological,
and reference materials.
12.1. In consideration of the international agreements of the former USSR and of Russia, its successor, regarding providing guarantees for the nonproliferation of nuclear materials and technologies, a state system of control and accounting will be created, taking IAEA recommendations into account. Thus, in terms of goals and criteria, it must differ fundamentally from the system of control and accounting that currently exists in Russia. In addition, an important factor is the fact that the aforementioned Presidential Edict gives Gosatomnadzor the responsibility for the functioning of the state system of control and accounting. 12.2. These circumstances demand that Gosatomnadzor as a whole and the Region resolve a number of organizational issues: 12.2.1. The creation of a regional informational-computing center in the Central Region for monitoring MPC&A and automated work stations in territorial inspectorates. 12.2.2. The development of regulatory documents and instructions by the Central Region on monitoring MPC&A. 12.2.3. Outfitting the region with technical equipment for measuring and controlling nuclear materials. 12.2.4. Training and educating specialists in the Central Region.
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