ASSESSMENT OF THE APPLICATION OF THE IAEA (INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY) REGULATIONS FOR THE SAFE TRANSPORT OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL

The IAEA, working with individual Member States, undertook to examine the manner in which domestic, import, export and through-country shipments of radioactive materials are controlled and regulated worldwide. The information to be examined was collected by a questionnaire, which was sent to Member States in July 1984. Copies of the letter and the questionnaire are in Appendix I of this document. The follow-up letters, repeating the request to provide the IAEA with data and asking authorization to publish the data obtained through the questionnaire, were sent in February 1985 (Appendix II and III). By the end of June 1986 completed questionnaires had been received from 53 Member States. These Member States are listed in Appendix IV. The results of the examination are summarized in this report. The results indicate the important role the international organizations play in the transport of radioactive material. All the Member States involved in this examination regulate the transport of radioactive material within their country on the basis of international agreements, regulations and recommendations. The IAEA Reulations for the Safe Transport of Radioactive Material, Safety Series No. 6, is the ultimately controlling document since it serves as the basis for the radioactive material portions of other international transport documents (Appendix V) and since it is made directly binding in the regulations of many countries. In addition to the questions concerning the adoption of the regulations, some questions on the implementation of the tranport regulations, e.g. on competent authorities and other regulatory bodies as well as quality assurance, were presented in the questionnaire. This report concerns only the adoption of the regulations.

• Corporate Authors:

  International Atomic Energy Agency

  Vienna International Centre, P.O. Box 100
  Vienna A-1400,   Austria 
• Publication Date: 1986-12

Media Info

• Features: Tables;
• Pagination: 41 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data collection; Foreign; Freight transportation; International; International compacts; Organizations; Radioactive materials; Regulations; Shipping; Surveys
• Old TRIS Terms: International organizations
• Subject Areas: Freight Transportation; Highways; Law; Marine Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00475087
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: IAEA-TECDOC-399
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 30 1987 12:00AM