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Fuel Cycle and Materials Regulation
Last Update: Jul 02, 2025
The Nuclear Safety Commission (NSC) is responsible for review and licensing of construction, operation and decommissioning for radioactive material treatment, storage, and disposal facilities, as well as in charge of safety regulation and inspection for related operations such as import, export, treatment, storage, transportation, and disposal of radioactive materials. The management mechanisms of radioactive materials are as follows:
1. Establish comprehensive laws and regulations
According to its authorities, NSC stipulate various regulations for radioactive materials, and clearly define safety design requirements, regulations for construction application, and related guidelines for treatment, storage and disposal facilities of radioactive materials and waste.
2. Implement safety review
For construction and operation of radioactive materials facilities, operators must submit safety analysis reports to NSC for review. NSC should determine its safety before issuing a construction license. After completion of a facility construction, the operator must submit a pre-operation plan to NSC for review and approval. After NSC confirm the result of pre-operation test to meet related requirements, NSC will issue an operation license.
3. Strict safety inspection
To ensure safety operation of facilities, NSC usually dispatches inspectors to implement safety inspections, and hold regulatory meetings periodically.
Inspections can be categorized into three kinds: routine, regular and special projects. Inspectors carry out inspection projects for important items, track and check the implementation results. At present, all radioactive material facilities have been allocated with inspectors responsible for implementing safety regulation, in order to prevent radiation release, ensure system normal operation, reduce radioactive waste generation, and ensure the safety operations of storage, transportation and disposal.
Each quarter, NSC implements the regulatory evaluation of low-level radioactive waste treatment facilities, including feeding quantity and recycle rate of liquid radioactive waste, solid radioactive waste production and improvement. The evaluation results will be published on NSC official website.
1. Establish comprehensive laws and regulations
According to its authorities, NSC stipulate various regulations for radioactive materials, and clearly define safety design requirements, regulations for construction application, and related guidelines for treatment, storage and disposal facilities of radioactive materials and waste.
2. Implement safety review
For construction and operation of radioactive materials facilities, operators must submit safety analysis reports to NSC for review. NSC should determine its safety before issuing a construction license. After completion of a facility construction, the operator must submit a pre-operation plan to NSC for review and approval. After NSC confirm the result of pre-operation test to meet related requirements, NSC will issue an operation license.
3. Strict safety inspection
To ensure safety operation of facilities, NSC usually dispatches inspectors to implement safety inspections, and hold regulatory meetings periodically.
Inspections can be categorized into three kinds: routine, regular and special projects. Inspectors carry out inspection projects for important items, track and check the implementation results. At present, all radioactive material facilities have been allocated with inspectors responsible for implementing safety regulation, in order to prevent radiation release, ensure system normal operation, reduce radioactive waste generation, and ensure the safety operations of storage, transportation and disposal.
Each quarter, NSC implements the regulatory evaluation of low-level radioactive waste treatment facilities, including feeding quantity and recycle rate of liquid radioactive waste, solid radioactive waste production and improvement. The evaluation results will be published on NSC official website.
