Delegation of the Vietnam Agency for Radiation and Nuclear Safety visited Rostechnadzor

Delegation of the Vietnam Agency for Radiation and Nuclear Safety visited Rostechnadzor 26.08.2014
On August 18, 2014, a meeting between the Chairman of the Federal Environmental, Industrial and Nuclear Supervision Service of Russia (Rostechnadzor) Alexey Aleshin and Director General of Vietnam Agency for Radiation and Nuclear Safety (VARANS) Vuong Huu Tan heading the delegation of Vietnam, which arrived at Rostechnadzor on a scientific visit, was held in Rostechnadzor. 

In the course of the meeting, the parties exchanged information on the current situation in the field of nuclear and radiological safety regulation in both countries. The Chairman of Rostechnadzor provided information on changes introduced to the Russian legislation that took place over the last 2 years and touch upon safety regulation in atomic energy use. 

Also, the Vietnamese party was made aware of information about the nuclear security supervision system at nuclear facilities. Representatives of SEC NRS and FSUE VO Safety made presentations on background and key areas of activity of the scientific and technical support organizations of Rostechnadzor. 

As a result of the meeting, the parties agreed Rostechnadzor’s specialists to conduct a workshop on exchange of experience in the field of safety review in the course of licensing of NPP siting and construction. The workshop is planned to be held in Hanoi on September 8, 2014. 

The scientific visit of the Vietnamese delegation in frames of the IAEA Technical Cooperation Program had the primary objective to familiarize the Vietnamese representatives with the experience of Rostechnadzor in supervision at NPP construction and operation. In frames of the event the Vietnamese delegation managed to visit the Don Interregional Territorial Department for Nuclear and Radiation Safety Supervision of Rostechnadzor (Don ITD) and the site of Novovoronezh NPP-2 under construction. 

The delegation of Vietnam highly appreciated qualification of the Don ITD inspectors and expressed an interest to continue the interagency cooperation on exchange of inspectorial experience in the course of NPP construction. 

On August 22, 2014 Rostechnadzor hosted a meeting between Alexey Ferapontov, State Secretary – Deputy Chairman of Rostechnadzor, and the delegation of VARANS to summarize the results of the scientific visit. Furthermore, during the meeting, the parties discussed issues of safety regulation in construction of NPPs being of Vietnamese party’s interest, as well as plans of further bilateral interagency cooperation. 

Source: Rostechnadzor.


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