JSC Atomenergoprom Annual Report

JSC ATOMENERGOPROM / ANNUAL REPORT / 158 GRI 3-3 Physical protection of nuclear facilities The security and physical protection of nuclear facilities posing nuclear and radiation hazards and of nuclear and radioactive materials used by the Company, including during their storage and transportation, complies with Russian legislation and the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and is aligned with the recommendations of the International Atomic Energy Agency. In 2022, JSC Atomenergoprom contributed to ROSATOM's efforts aimed at improving the regulatory and methodological framework in the sphere of physical protection and security (including anti-terrorism security) of nuclear facilities. In 2022, a draft Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation on Amendments to the Rules for the Physical Protection of Nuclear Materials, Nuclear Facilities and Nuclear Material Storage Sites was prepared and approved by the relevant federal executive authorities. In 2023, the Company plans to submit the draft Decree to the Government of the Russian Federation and to continue to improve its regulatory and methodological framework for physical protection and anti-terrorism security of nuclear facilities. Due to the remaining threat of the entry and spread of the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19) in 2022, targeted inspections carried out in two of the Company's organisations as part of departmental monitoring did not involve site visits by the Company's employees; instead, they were carried out by security specialists of these organisations. Proposals were prepared to conduct inspections of physical protection as part of departmental monitoring at 12 nuclear facilities in 2023. The proposals were included in the Consolidated Plan of Inspections for 2023 approved by order of the Corporation. The Company continued to improve the integrated information system for monitoring the status of the system for physical protection of the Company's facilities posing nuclear and radiation hazards. As part of Russia's import substitution strategy, the Control-SFZ-C cross-platform software was upgraded and incorporated in the said information system, enabling it to be run on various operating systems, such as Astra Linux, Windows and Android. The software is scheduled to be tested in 2023. 163 automated workstations (AWSs) for security analysts and 74 AWSs for facility inspectors have been installed in nuclear organisations. These AWSs form part of the monitoring system and have been installed at 43 industry facilities posing nuclear and radiation hazards and in the workplaces of the Company's specialists. The work will continue in 2023. Based on the findings of analysis and summary of data provided by the Company's organisations, in 2022: - In accordance with the approved programmes, the organisations continued to take steps to improve physical protection and security equipment at facilities posing nuclear and radiation hazards. All physical protection and security equipment is fully operational; its maintenance is carried out as scheduled. New equipment (that has been in operation for less than 10 years) accounts for 73% of all physical protection equipment at nuclear facilities (74% in 2020 and 2021); Scheduled work was carried out to maintain automated security systems for transportation (ASSTs) installed in control centres and special vehicles (railway cars, special motor vehicles and vessels) and replace equipment that had reached the end of its specified service life. Measures were organised and implemented in full to ensure the physical protection and anti-terrorism security of facilities (premises) of nuclear organisations. Measures taken in cooperation with the Federal Security Service of Russia, the Federal National Guard Service and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia made it possible to prevent unlawful acts against nuclear facilities. In 2022, as in previous years, there were no violations of access control or internal security regulations at JSC Atomenergoprom's facilities which could have resulted in the theft of nuclear materials, terrorist acts or sabotage at nuclear facilities. Industry-Wide Radiation Monitoring System The Industry-Wide Radiation Monitoring System (IRMS) is in operation in the Russian nuclear industry as a functional subsystem of the Integrated State Automated Radiation Monitoring System (ISARMS) in Russia65. - The DIAC is the information and data analysis centre within ROSATOM's departmental radiation monitoring subsystem forming part of the ISARMS; it integrates data from local radiation monitoring systems and the industry-wide automated radiation monitoring system (IARMS) and the findings of on-site subsoil condition monitoring (OSCM); 30 local radiation monitoring systems are in operation in ROSATOM's organisations included in potential radiation hazard categories 1 and 2. The local radiation monitoring systems in the organisations perform regular radiation monitoring in buffer areas and radiation control areas, including: Continuous monitoring of the gamma radiation dose rate through the ARMS; Periodic monitoring of the gamma radiation dose rate using portable and mobile equipment, dosimeters, radiometers and spectrometers, as well as on-site monitoring of the annual gamma radiation dose in buffer areas and radiation control areas using accumulating dosimeters; Periodic monitoring (using portable, mobile and fixed equipment) of radionuclide content in various components of the natural environment: in the lowest layer of the atmosphere, atmospheric precipitation, soil, surface water bodies into which liquid effluents are discharged and hydrologically connected water bodies, bottom sediments, aquatic organisms, groundwater, vegetation, as well as in locally produced food products and fodder. In 2022, radiation levels in the areas where facilities of the Company's organisations are located were within the range of natural background radiation. Real-time data from automated radiation monitoring stations are available on the website at www.russianatom.ru. Amid the ongoing development of the nuclear industry, the government and society have heightened expectations for the safety of technologies used in the industry. One of the ways to improve safety is to enhance the quality and reliability of environmental monitoring. ROSATOM has adopted the IRMS Development Programme for the period from 2021 through 2030 (hereinafter referred to as the Programme), which defines focus areas for IRMS development and measures for enhancing it. The Programme comprises 58 measures to be implemented across eight focus areas. SAFE OPERATIONS 65. Pursuant to Articles 20 and 21 of Federal Law No. 170-FZ of 21 November 1995 on the Use of Nuclear Energy, ROSATOM performs state radiation monitoring in the Russian Federation in the locations of nuclear facilities owned by operators with regard to which ROSATOM exercises government control over the use of nuclear energy. SAFE OPERATIONS JSC ATOMENERGOPROM / ANNUAL REPORT / 159