SEC NRS delegation participated in EUROSAFE Forum and ETSON Board and General Assembly Meetings in Paris.

SEC NRS delegation headed by Director A. Khamaza participated in the annual EUROSAFE Forum held on November 6-7 in Paris (France).

The Forum agenda included the plenary session and 5 seminars on the following topics:

•    Nuclear installation safety – assessment;
•    Nuclear installation Safety – research;
•    Waste management and decommissioning & dismantling;
•    Radiation protection, environment and emergency preparedness;
•    Security of nuclear installations and materials.

During the seminars the SEC NRS representatives delivered the following presentations:
Improvement of the Russian Legal Framework in the Field of Disused Sealed Radioactive Sources Management including establishment of Acceptance Criteria for Disposal; Methodology for limiting of radioactive discharges to environment in Russian Federation; The Ways of Risk Based Approach (RBA) Development in Supervision over Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials (MC&A) in the Russian Federation.  

The meetings of the ETSON Board and General Assembly were held on the 8th of November with participation of Alexander Khamaza, SEC NRS Director and ETSON Vice-President. The ETSON Knowledge Management Group (KMG) meeting was also attended by SEC NRS representative.
SEC NRS has been a member of ETSON (European Technical Safety Organizations Network) since 2012.

The working meeting between Alexander Khamaza and J.-C. Niel, IRSN General Director, on the issues of bilateral cooperation was held on the same day.