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Russia: Federal norms and rules NP-032-19 'Nuclear power plant site. Safety requirements' (Rostekhnadzor Order No. 287, 2019)

Russia's federal norms NP-032-19, in force since December 2019, set safety requirements for nuclear power plant sites and forbid plants on active faults, on sites with design earthquakes above intensity VIII (MSK-64), in karst or thermokarst areas, where environmental laws forbid them, or where volcanic effects can reach. They do not apply to floating plants. They are siting rules, not a site approval.

Category
Laws, rules and executive directives
Status
In effect
Instrument
final rule · Приказ Ростехнадзора от 19.07.2019 № 287 «Об утверждении федеральных норм и правил в области использования атомной энергии «Площадка атомной станции. Требования безопасности» (НП-032-19)»; registered by the Ministry of Justice 2 December 2019, No. 56661; official publication No. 0001201912020071; in force 13 December 2019
Issued by
Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision (Rostekhnadzor)
Jurisdiction
Russia
Affects
Siting
In effect from
13 Dec 2019 · actual · day
Expiry or completion
None recorded
Operative text
Official legal information portal: Rostekhnadzor Order No. 287 of 19.07.2019 approving NP-032-19 'Nuclear power plant site. Safety requirements' (Official publication of Order No. 287 with the approved norms (scanned original))
Record reviewed · next review
2026-10-18 · 2027-04-18 (dates our review of this record; not a statement of the measure's present legal effect)

Legal and geographic scope

Federal norms and rules made under Article 6 of Federal Law No. 170-FZ. They set basic safety criteria and requirements for siting nuclear power plants, for site evaluation against natural and human-made hazards, for environmental monitoring and for accounting for plant effects on people and the environment, over the full plant life cycle (items 1-3). They do not apply to floating nuclear power plants (item 4). Item 12 prohibits siting a plant on sites lying directly on active faults; on sites whose maximum design earthquake exceeds intensity VIII on the MSK-64 scale (maximum acceleration 4 m/s2 or more); in areas with sulfate or salt karst or thermokarst; on territories where environmental-protection laws forbid a plant; and on sites exposed to volcanic eruption effects. They replace NP-032-01.

Not approved or still pending

Floating plants are excluded and the norms that apply to them were not reviewed. Whether NP-032-19 has been amended since 2019 was not verified. Siting decisions and site licences for individual projects are separate.

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