Department of Radiation Protection

Duties, Authorities, and Responsibilities

The duties and powers of the Department of Radiation Protection are as follows:

a) To carry out the necessary works and procedures regarding notification, authorization and approval for the implementation of regulatory control in order to ensure safety in radioactive waste facilities.

b) To determine the procedures and principles of the service to be purchased from private law legal entities for the third party surveillance of the activities determined by the Authority, including the inspection of structures, by legal entities authorized for

radioactive waste facilities, and to determine the activities, powers and responsibilities of these persons and to carry out the works and procedures related to the authorization of the persons who will provide services in this field.

c) To carry out the works and procedures regarding the authorization of legal persons determined by the Authority, who will provide training on radiation protection to the personnel who will take part in the activities, and natural and legal persons who will provide services for radiation protection.

ç) To determine compliance criteria for activities that may affect the protection of employees, the public, the environment and future generations from radiation, and to carry out work and procedures related to approval.

d) To determine the radiation dose limits that can be exposed due to all kinds of activities that involve the risk of exposure of employees, the public, the environment and future generations to radiation.

e) To determine the training programs for radiation protection, to provide training, to carry out or have the work and procedures related to examination and certification.

f) To carry out or ensure the execution of the national radiation monitoring activity and to cooperate with the relevant institutions and organizations for the conduct of radiation control activities.

g) To inform relevant national or international organizations about extraordinary events.

ğ) To establish, operate and develop the national central dose registration system, to follow the dose records in the system, to examine and inspect the institutions where radiation workers work in coordination with the relevant service units when necessary.

h) To issue opinions to the relevant service units on the clearance and release of radioactive materials and to monitor.

ı) To carry out the works and procedures related to the authorization of the personnel to work in the duties determined by the Authority, in matters falling within its scope of duty and authority.

i) To carry out the works and procedures related to the removal of regulatory control in matters falling within its scope of duty and authority.

j) To cooperate with the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency and relevant institutions and organizations in coordination with the relevant service units in the management of radiation emergencies.

k) To carry out a safety assessment regarding the findings that are not positively closed by the Department of Inspection in matters falling within its scope of duty and authority, to identify the nonconformities and to carry out the works and procedures related to these.

l) To determine the issues that may require administrative sanctions in matters falling within its scope of duty and authority, to carry out the works and procedures related to administrative sanctions in coordination with the Department of Legal Services.

m) To perform other duties assigned by the President.