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Safety Surveillance

Enforcement Actions

AERB may initiate enforcement actions, if in its opinion the licensee has violated the conditions of the licence,
after specifying the reasons for such actions. The enforcement actions may include one or more of the
following:
A written directive for Written directive to Orders to Modification, Initiate legal
satisfactory rectification of applicant/licensee curtail or suspension or proceedings under
the deficiency or deviation for improvement within a stop activity revocation of provisions of the Atomic
detected during inspection reasonable timeframe licence Energy Act, 1962.

Enforcement in Diagnostic
Radiology (X-ray) Facilities

As part of the nation-wide campaign to ensure
increased compliance and regulatory coverage of Seal
medical diagnostic X-ray equipment, AERB continued
the unannounced inspections programme and carried Warning
out inspections of facilities in four states in North-
for Seal
Eastern region viz. Manipur, Assam, Meghalaya and
Nagaland during September 2019. Total 11 equipment
were ‘Sealed’ and issued ‘Warning for Seal’ to 91 X-ray Recommendations
for violation of major safety & regulatory requirements.

Information on such inspections is shared with local print media and television media to spread awareness
among the users on radiation safety

Imphal
Bishnupur
Shillong
Guwahati
Tinsukia

Dibrugarh
Digboi
Dimapur

Kohima

Enforcement in Radiation Facilities Enforcement in NPP

Warning Letter was issued to licensee of well
Stopped all construction activities at KKNPP-3 to
logging institution due to loss of source during
6 following an accident of serious nature occurred
transport.
at Fabrication Shop of KKNPP-3&4 where left hand
Show-cause notice was issued to two nucleonic of the victim (an operator with the contractor) got
gauge institutions on regulatory violations entangled in a drilling machine while cleaning the
committed by the institution resulted in loss of drilling chips.
radioactive sources.
Suspended operation of two industrial radiography
devices at Agra and Rajkot site for a period of three
months, for storage/use of radiography devices at
unapproved/unauthorised sites.

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