Regional Basic Professional Training Course in Korea

criteria, regulations and guides;
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3. Basic Principles Of Nuclear Safety
(4) To provide the regulatory body with adequate authority and power, and ensure that
it has adequate staffing and financial resources to discharge its assigned
responsibilities;
(5) To ensure that no other responsibility is assigned to the regulatory body which may
jeopardize or conflict with its responsibility for regulating safety;
(6) To ensure that adequate arrangements are made for decommissioning, closeout or
closure, site rehabilitation, and the safe management of spent fuel and radioactive
waste;
(7) To ensure that adequate arrangements are made for the safe transport of radioactive
material;
(8) To establish an effective system of governmental emergency response and
intervention capabilities and to ensure emergency preparedness;
(9) To ensure the adequacy of physical protection arrangements where they influence
safety;
(10) To provide for adequate financial indemnification arrangements for third parties in
the event of a nuclear or radiation accident in view of the potential damage and
injury which may arise from an accident; and
(11) To provide for the technological infrastructure necessary to support the safety of
facilities and activities, where these are not provided by other organizations.
The prime responsibility for safety shall be assigned to the operator. The operators shall
have the responsibility for ensuring safety in the siting, design, construction,
commissioning, operation and decommissioning, closeout or closure of their facilities,
including, as appropriate, rehabilitation of contaminated areas, and for activities using,
transporting or handling radioactive material. Organizations that generate radioactive
waste shall have the responsibility for the safe management of the radioactive waste that
they produce. Since during the transport of radioactive material, primary reliance for