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(b) Issued 5,469 permissions for procurement of radioactive sources.
(c) 10,458 permissions for procurement of diagnostic X-ray equipment.

(d) Approved 3,631 Radiation Safety Officers (RSO) for various radiation facilities.
(e) Simplified the module for processing of applications for Licence for operation of Dental X-ray
equipment.

4. Regulatory Inspection of Nuclear and Radiation Facilities

(a) Special inspection of KKNPP-1&2 based on media reports on cyber attack on computer system.
(b) Special RI of NPCIL HQ to verify the compliance of requirements prescribed for a responsible
organisation.
(c) NFC and NPC Regional QA offices at Hyderabad inspected under vendor inspection programme.

(d) Continuous surveillance by AERB Site Observers Team (SOT) at twelve operating, two under
commissioning and five under construction units.
(e) 27 inspections of nuclear power projects, 64 inspections of operating NPPs and 37 inspections of
industrial and fuel cycle facilities were carried out.
(f) 1,038 inspections of medical, industrial and research radiation facilities.

5. Enforcement Inspections

(a) Under special drive for diagnostic X-Ray facilities about 207 equipment inspected in the North
Eastern States. Due to non-compliance of regulatory requirements 11 X-ray equipment were
‘Sealed’ and issued ‘Warning for Seal’ to 91 X-ray equipment.
(b) Noticing the violations of regulatory and safety requirement, four Industrial Radiography devices
were sealed.

6. Emergency Preparedness and Response (EPR) at NPPs

(a) New off-site emergency exercises developed viz. Table Top exercise, Integrated Command Control
and Response (ICCR) exercise and Field exercise. These exercises were conceptualized and
conducted, focusing on different aspects of emergency management.

(b) Trial table-top exercises conducted at three sites (Narora, Tarapur and Kaiga).
(c) ICCR offsite emergency exercise conducted at Kalpakkam site in September 2019.

7. Regulatory Safety Documents

(a) Two Safety Guides viz. ‘Remediation of Areas Affected by Radioactive Contamination’ and
‘Monitoring and Assessment of Occupational Exposure due to Intake of Radionuclides’ were
approved and uploaded on AERB website.
(b) About 16 regulatory safety documents (REGDOC) are at various stage of development.
(c) 32 draft Safety Standards and Documents Preparation Profiles (DPP) of IAEA reviewed and
commented.

8. Safety Analysis, Research and Development

(a) Contributed in development of PRABHAVINI, an integral safety analysis code of DAE, by

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