activities for the use of nuclear energy, activities in exposure situations, transport of radioactive and fissile substances, activities in the field of radioactive waste management, nuclear installation design, design or manufacture of selected equipment

Draft Decree amending Decree No 408/2016 on management system requirements

Draft amendment to Decree No 408/2016 – areas of change in the current text of the Decree:

• Correction of evident defects that have been discovered over the course of previous years.
• Adjustments related to novelties in international recommendations, in particular those of the International Atomic
Energy Agency. These include recommendations in the area of the role of senior management, the tasks of senior
management, recommendations in the area of managing discrepancies and implementing changes to the management
system.
• Changes related to changes in international practice, reaction to findings that quality assurance for processes and
activities and their outputs, i.e. items such as selected equipment, components of nuclear installations, in recent years
not only in the Czech Republic, but also globally, suffers from certain shortcomings and so-called fraudulent items are
being detected. Fraudulent items are a highly critical problem in the nuclear field as they can lead to quality degradation
and consequently to impacts on safety assurance, i.e. nuclear safety, radiation protection, technical safety, radiation
monitoring, radiation incident management and security.
• Adjustments in connection with planned new sources and their construction. New sources will to a significant extent
make use of technologies that have not yet been implemented in practice, or that depend on the use of already
implemented nuclear installation projects, but with a number of new developments. In this context, we can mention, for
example, the new requirement (or rather assumption) that the construction of nuclear installations should ensure uniform
clarity of documentation for the permitted activity and for the management system, a single communication platform or
common language that is comprehensible to all entities involved.
• Modification of safety culture requirements - a complete and comprehensive revision of the provisions of § 13, which
sets out more detailed requirements for safety culture.
• Modification of documentation for activity being permitted or the documentation for the management system.
Clarification of how the documentation is to be formulated, what it is to contain and how it is to be accessed, in particular
where the entity implementing the management system is at the same time the holder of a permit an activity involving
the use of nuclear energy.
Keywords: quality, control, documentation, management, selected equipment, nuclear installation components.