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Solvent Synthesis Pilot Plant (VSSP). AERB has also
granted permission for resumption of mining activities Under the minimum Government, Maximum
at Jaduguda and Bhatin mine, consequent to clearances Governance, AERB simplified the registration
by State Government and Ministry of Environment & process of dental X-ray equipment in e-LORA
Forests (MoE&F) to these facilities. system. Also, validity of Registration of all types of
dental X-ray equipment has been extended from
AERB reviewed the industrial and fire safety aspects existing five years to ten years.
of the facilities under its purview. Fatal accidents at NPP
and FCF were investigated and reviewed. The lessons Past regulatory experience feedback on radiography
learnt from these accidents were disseminated to all practices had necessitated amendment of the Safety
DAE units. Code on ‘Industrial Radiography’ with a view to infuse
more trained manpower in this practice. Accordingly,
R&D Facilities amendment in this regard has been issued on August
02, 2019.
Based on review of submissions, consent for stage-1
commissioning was granted to Medical Cyclotron and AERB raised the concern to DAE over disposal
its associated beamline at VECC on July 30, 2019. of disused sealed radioactive sources (DSRS) used
RRCAT applications for trial run operation of TWINDUS in various RFs and requested to establish a formal
LINAC-2 and permission for installation, testing and mechanism for their proper management. Inputs w.r.t.
commissioning of TWINDUS LINAC-3 were reviewed establishing the mechanism for the management of
and granted permissions. Also permission for testing of DSRS was prepared by AERB in line with the National
Superconducting RF Cavities in horizontal test stand Policy on ‘Management of Radioactive Waste’ and
(HTS) facility was granted on June 20, 2019. forwarded to DAE.
The details on Safety Surveillance of Nuclear Power Owing to violations of safety requirements by
Projects, Operating Plants, Research Reactors and radiography institution, AERB suspended the operation
Nuclear Fuel Cycle Facilities and other related Industrial of two Ionizing Radiation Exposure Devices (IRED) for
Facilities are given in Chapter 1. three months and besides this issued show-cause notice
to three nucleonic gauge institutions in view of lapses in
Safety Surveillance of Radiation Facilities compliance of requirement w.r.t. safety and security of
(RF) radiation sources.

AERB carried out safety review of various facilities The details of safety surveillance of radiation facilities
using radiation sources and equipment in industry, during this period are given in Chapter-2.
medicine, agriculture and research. RFs are governed by
AERB’s e-Licensing of Radiation Applications (e-LORA) Regulatory Inspection (RI) of Nuclear and

system. It is a user friendly interface with applicants Radiation Facilities
and licensees of various RFs located across the country.
With e-LORA, AERB has strengthened its regulations of AERB carried out total 128 RIs of Nuclear and
diagnostic X-ray equipment which resulted in significant Industrial Facilities covering safety (nuclear, radiological
increase in issue of licences of these equipment. Total & industrial) and security aspects under the purview of
77,346 X-ray equipment were licenced in e-LORA till AERB. Apart from this total 1,038 radiation facilities
December 2019. were inspected by officers from Headquarter (HQ) and
Regional Regulatory Centres.
AERB issued about 20,520 licences (licence,
authorisation and registration) for operation of various AERB conducted RIs during Biennial Shutdown
RFs following the graded approach, granted 5,469 (BSD) of KGS- 1 & 2 and NAPS-1 to inspect
permissions for procurement of radioactive sources radiological safety aspects.
(imported and indigenous) and 10,458 permissions
for procurement of diagnostic X-ray equipment and
approved 3,631 Radiation Safety Officers (RSO) for A special inspection of KKNPP-1&2 was carried out
different practices. to cover aspects related to incident reported in various

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