On 30 November 2022 NRSC successfully passed re-certification audit of its Quality Management System that was conducted in accordance with the requirements of ISO 9001:2015 standard. This certification underlined the commitment of NRSC management and all teams to having a sustainable and traceable Quality Management System. It demonstrated high level of adherence to the quality […]
The main objective of the workshop was to present to the participants the IAEA competence management approaches, covering the processes related to the identifying competence needs, assessing existing competencies through gap analysis and designing competence development strategies to close identified gaps. The main emphasis was placed on presenting to the participants the tool on Systematic […]
The representative of radiation safety group took part in EU CBRN CoE P67 “Strengthening CBRN Waste Management Capabilities in South-East and Eastern European Countries” final project meeting held in Tirana during 7-8 September 2022. The main results and outputs of the regional project, as well as possibility of new follow-up regional projects were discussed.
During the workshop, the organizers presented the requirements of the IAEA related to norms and norm industries, the methods of measuring norm samples, the preparation of samples and the analysis and interpretation of measurement results. Participating countries were provided with norm samples in order to conduct measurements in participating countries for the intercomparison exercise.
The main issues on licensing of construction and operation of RW treatment and storage facilities were discussed. The drafts of «Management of disused sealed radioactive sources and other institutional radioactive waste» and «Monitoring of Radioactive Waste Management Facilities» documents were finalized. International experts proposed to develop a road map for the establishment of RW management […]
On March 21, 2022 NRSC participated on a workshop hosted by the Armenian Nuclear Regulatory Authority (hereinafter referred to as ANRA) on nuclear security awareness raising for decision makers in Armenia, and from 22-25 March Integrated Nuclear Security Support Plan (INSSP) Review Mission for Armenia. Both events were conducted in a hybrid format. The INSSP review […]
Representative of NRSC participated in Technical Meeting on «International Safeguards in the Design of Radioactive Waste Management Programmes», organized by IAEA in VIC premises from 21 to 25 March, 2022. The purpose of the event was to review the draft Nuclear Energy Series publication provisionally entitled International Safeguards in the Design of Radioactive Waste Management […]
NRSC is actively carrying out environmental radiometric measurements of mining sites in Armenia. The purpose of the radiation monitoring is to find out the radiation situation in the mining site. For the measurement of the natural background of gamma radiation, a mobile system for recording the gamma radiation with the possibility of recording the geographical […]
The first stage of establishing a monitoring network for monitoring the radiation situation in Armenia is going on successfully. Stationary radiation monitoring stations are being installed by NRSC. With the support of the EU, it is planned to install a total of 32 stationary stations in Armenia, two spectrometric stations in the areas adjacent to […]
During 2021, “Nuclear and Radiation Safety Center” CJSC has successfully carried out the identification and searching of disused and orphan radioactive sources used in the following organizations: Institute of Physical Research of NAS RA, Institute of Ecologonospheric Research of NAS RA, Cardiology Research Institute, National Polytechnic University of Armenia, National Institute of Metrology Found sources […]