Ulaanbaatar
Parliament receives bill on joining Nuclear Safety Convention
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ On March 21, Head of the Cabinet Office, MP S.Bayartsogt presented a draft bill to Vice Chairman of the State Great Khural (Parliament) R.Gonchigdorj on joining the Nuclear Safety Convention from 1994 as well as Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management from 1997.
Minister S.Bayartsogt added that the Standing Committee on Security and Foreign Policy of the Parliament of Mongolia had also reviewed an issue on ratifying the 2005 Protocol on amendments to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material from 1980 and the latest amendments on Small Quantities Protocol at the Standing Committee meeting held on March 10.
The Convention on Nuclear Safety is a 1994 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) treaty that governs safety rules at nuclear power plants in state parties to the Convention. The Convention was adopted in Vienna, Austria, at an IAEA diplomatic conference on June 17, 1994 and as of July 2015, there are 78 state parties to the Convention. The Convention creates obligations on state parties to implement certain safety rules and standards at all civil facilities related to nuclear energy. These include issues of site selection; design and construction; operation and safety verification; and emergency preparedness.
