Belarus approved the draft US program on emergency preparedness and regulation in nuclear energy

The Belarusian side agreed on a draft program of the Union State to improve approaches to emergency preparedness, emergency response and safety regulation in the use of atomic energy. Head of the Department for Nuclear and Radiation Safety of the Ministry of Emergency Situations (Gosatomnadzor) Olga Lugovskaya said this during the online conference "Peaceful Atom in Belarus: Benefits and Prospects", BelTA has learned.

“It took us a long time to implement the union program concerning regulation and emergency preparedness. However, I think that we have already reached the home stretch. In Belarus, all the bodies involved in the implementation of this program have agreed on it,” Olga Lugovskaya noted.

On the Russian side, the Emergencies Ministry acts as the coordinator. "There are positive signals that the process (approval. – BelTA`s note) is proceeding quite successfully. We hope that by the end of the year we will receive another powerful instrument of interaction," added the head of Gosatomnadzor.

According to Olga Lugovskaya, the main effect of this program will be not even funding, but the interaction of specialists who know the problem well from the inside.

“It is very important for us that this program takes place precisely in the context of our closest interaction within the framework of the Union State,” she concluded.