Country Report on Asian ALARA Networking Meeting

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• Country Report on Asian ALARA Networking Meeting

Daejon, Republic of Korea , 3-5 December 2007
LIU Senlin China Institute of Atomic Energy P.O.
Box 275(1), 102413 Beijing Fax [phone]
7008 Tel [phone](O) Email
slliu_at_ciae.ac.cn P. R. CHINA
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• Personnel information
• Position
• Personnel expertise
• Implement of ALARA in China
• Proposals on Asian Region ALARA Network

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Personnel information

• Position
• Vice-President, China Institute of Atomic Energy
  (CIAE), and
• Director, Department of Safety and Protection of
  CIAE, and
• Director, Office of Nuclear Safety, Radiation
  Protection, and Environmental Protection of CIAE

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CIAE

• It was founded in 1950.
• It is the birthplace of Chinese nuclear science
  and technology, and China nuclear industry.
• It is the base for nuclear science and technology
  implementing pioneering, basic, and Comprehensive
  studies in China.

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CIAE

• It is about 3200 staffs, including 700 senior
  scientists, and 6 academician of the Chinese
  Academy of Science (CAS) and the Chinese Academy
  of Engineering (CAE).
• It consists of 5 Depts., and 3 Divis., and 4
  Construction Depts.

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CIAE
China Institute of Atomic Energy
Five Dept.
Three Divi.
Four Proj.
Nuclear Physics
Safety and Prot.
CEFR
Reactor Engi. RD
Sci.Tech. Infor.
CARR
Radiochemistry
Radiometrology
BTAU
Nucl. Tech. Appl.
CRARF
High Tech. Corp.
Radioisotope

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CIAE

• Its major tasks and activities
• Fundamental research on nuclear science and
  technology
• RD on Advanced nuclear energy
• Application of nuclear technology

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Personnel expertise

• I am engaged in the area of safety and
  protection for 20 years. There are concerned as
  follows in 1987-1998
• research on methodology for the assessment of
  dose to the public
• safety analysis and environmental impact
  assessment of nuclear facilities, such as RR,
  NPP, Nuclear fuel cycling facility, etc.
• research on aerial monitoring technology used for
  nuclear and radiological emergency monitoring

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Personnel expertise

• 1999-now
• as vice-president of CIAE, in charge of nuclear
  safety, radiation safety, waste safety, and
  environmental protection in CIAE
• research on Energy and the Environment
• research on strategy and policy for the
  minimization of Radwastes in China
• RD on emergency monitoring system for combating
  nuclear terrorism

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Personnel expertise

• 1993-now member, Nuclear Safety and the
  Environment Committee, SEPA/NNSA
• 2002-now vice-president, Chinese Radiological
  Protection Society (CRPS)
• 2004-now
• member, National Nuclear Emergency Coordination
  Committee of China (NNECCC)
• advisor, Chinese delegation to the UNSCEAR
• member, editorial board of Chinese
  Journal-Radiation Protection, and Radiation
  Protection Newsletter, and Science and Technology
  of Atomic Energy
• professor, CNNC Graduate School

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Implement of ALARA

• Since the early of 1980s, the optimization
  principle had been a provision in National
  Regulations on Radiation Protection.
• In the year of 1990, a National Advisory Group on
  the implementing of ALARA was established in the
  former Ministry of Nuclear Industry (MNI) of
  China, and now the CNNC, and under it there is a
  National ALARA Center in CIRP, an ALARA Committee
  in each Nuclear Facility Operator.
• Some researches and practices of the application
  of ALARA were made by the CIAE, NPP, etc.

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Cases of ALARA

• Application of ALARA into the discharging scheme
  of RR in a site without receiving water body
• Application of ALARA into the residual content of
  U, Pu, and Am in the decommissioning of a nuclear
  facility site
• Application of ALARA into the determination of
  discharging concentration of liquid effluents in
  NNP
• Application of ALARA into the management of
  Radwastes in NNP

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Case of ALARA

• Application of ALARA into the determination of
  natural nuclides concentration used for
  construction materials
• Application of ALARA into the design of
  radioisotope production facility
• Application of ALARA in national training course
  on competent radiation protection persons

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National expectation to ALARA Network

• to be shared with knowledge and experiences of
  ALARA good practice by national regulatory,
  experts, etc.
• To be a forum on discussion and argumentation
  against radiation protection issues
• To be a platform to exchange safety and
  protection information by regulatory staffs
  within Asian Member States, the RPO of operation
  organization

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National expectation to ALARA Network

• To be a public web site (only part of it) for the
  general member to the public to read the good
  practice of RP within Asian region
• National representative, or correspondents will
  be assigned by the member states government
• Newsletter will be issued periodically

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Some issues to be discussed

• How to establish it, and what are its style and
  characteristics?
• What experiences should be learnt for the similar
  networking, such as ANSN, EAN, RaSaReN, etc.
• How to operate and maintain it? By Department of
  the IAEA, any member states?

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Proposals

• The provisional acronym ARAN (Asian Region ALARA
  Network) is Ok for my personnel option
• A task team or group is needed, and its members
  should mainly be from the future operation
  organization of the network, and staffs of the
  IAEA, and
• An Asian steering committee would also be
  necessary in the establishment and operation of
  the network.

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