Beneficiary Organizations Details
Nuclear Regulatory Agency (NRA): http://www.bnsa.bas.bg
Project Aims

• The overall objective of this project was to contribute to increasing of nuclear safety in the country;
• The specific objective was to provide assistance to the Bulgarian nuclear safety authority in improving management of entire lifecycle of sealed radioactive sources.

Project Results
Development of a full scope of documentation necessary for safe management of the sealed radiation sources (SRS) in the country. This inclided:

• Development of regulations in the area of operational safety of SRS;
• Identification of the methodological approach and the technical specification for the equipment and instrumentation needed to periodically check the physical state of the SRS;
• Development of national registry of the SRS and relevant regulations to ensure full traceability of the SRS during their entire life cycle;
• Development of procedures for transport of disused SRS from their users to the central facility for their storage and disposal;
• Identification of requirements for safe storage and disposal of disused SRS;
• Definition of actions to establish liability for SRS in the case of users disappearance;
• Proposal of regulatory measures to provide for the safe management of orphan sources.

The budget for this project was: 550 000 euro.
Further Project Results
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