OREANDA-NEWS. July 04, 2011. The State Duma passed the law “On Radioactive Wastes Management and of Making Amendments into Separate Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation” on the third reading.

316 deputies voted for it.

The draft law had been introduces to the State Duma of the Russian Federation Government on December 5, 2010, considered and passed by the State Duma on the first reading on January 20, 2010, and on the second reading on June 28, 2011. More than 380 amendments were considered within the framework of the document preparation, the significant part of which was reflected in the law final text, as it was stated in the State Duma committee on Natural Resources, Environment and Ecology.

The regulations of radioactive wastes management, and prevention of their further accumulation, forming of a modern national system of radioactive wastes management, meeting the requirements of the International United Convention of spent nuclear fuel and radioactive wastes management safety, which was ratified by the Russian Federation in 2006, are provided by the Federal Law.


According to the law, the coordination and practical realization of the works on radioactive wastes management is entrusted to Rosatom State Corporation and the national operator of radioactive wastes management. At that, the national operator is defined as the main organization responsible for radioactive waste underground storage. Limitations of the interim period storage and those of the storage for radioactive wastes producers, within the framework of which the producers are obliged to get the wastes under a state applicable for their underground storage and pass them over to the national operator having paid for the storage services, are set.

The regulations, specializing separate procedures and clearly distinguishing the authorities in the field of radioactive wastes management, are included in the law, among them the sources of financing the events in the area of radioactive wastes management are specified. A separate enactment of the law is dedicated to the questions of regulation of radioactive wastes import and export from the Russian Federation territory, and radioactive wastes import and export from the country territory for the purposes of its storage, recycling and underground disposal is completely prohibited. Besides, in the law new edition there is a regulation prohibiting creation of new facilities of liquid radioactive wastes underground disposal in geological horizon.

According to the law, the coordination and practical realization of the works on radioactive wastes management is entrusted to Rosatom State Corporation and the national operator of radioactive wastes management. At that, the national operator is defined as the main organization responsible for radioactive waste underground storage. Limitations of the interim period storage and those of the storage for radioactive wastes producers, within the framework of which the producers are obliged to get the wastes under a state applicable for their underground storage and pass them over to the national operator having paid for the storage services, are set.

The regulations, specializing separate procedures and clearly distinguishing the authorities in the field of radioactive wastes management, are included in the law, among them the sources of financing the events in the area of radioactive wastes management are specified. A separate enactment of the law is dedicated to the questions of regulation of radioactive wastes import and export from the Russian Federation territory, and radioactive wastes import and export from the country territory for the purposes of its storage, recycling and underground disposal is completely prohibited. Besides, in the law new edition there is a regulation prohibiting the creation of new facilities of liquid radioactive wastes underground disposal in geological horizon.

According to the law, the coordination and practical realization of the works on radioactive wastes management is entrusted to Rosatom State Corporation and the national operator of radioactive wastes management. At that, the national operator is defined as the main organization responsible for radioactive waste underground storage. Limitations of the interim period storage and those of the storage for radioactive wastes producers, within the framework of which the producers are obliged to get the wastes under a state applicable for their underground storage and pass them over to the national operator having paid for the storage services, are set.