THE SYSTEM OF EMERGENCY CARDS FOR PRIMARY ACTIONS IN ACCIDENT AT RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL TRANSPORT IN RUSSIA

For 50 years of mass shipments of radioactive materials (RM) in Russia there were not registered both serious radiation effects on the population and personnel owing to such shipments and there were not almost RM transport accidents as well. The total number of transport infringements at RM shipments is estimated only as singles for these years. Nevertheless, in frame of “The Uniform state system of warning and liquidation of emergency situations” [1] the functional subsystem of warning and liquidation of emergency situations of the Federal Agency for atomic Agency (Rosatom, earlier Minatom of Russia) operates in Russia. One of the tasks of this subsystem is the providing the planning, the preparing and the carrying measures at RM transport accidents. The execution of this task is carried out by Accident-Emergency Service for Transport of Rosatom (?ES ?). One of the normative - technical elements of Accident-Emergency Service for Transport in Russia is the system of the emergency cards (EC) for realization of primary activities in case of incidents and accidents at transport of RM. Such requirement takes place for the transport of other dangerous goods (DG) pursuant to rules and other normative documents which are operational in Russia on various mode of transports (see, for example, [2], [3], [4], [5]). Within 2003-2004 years the system EC for transport of RM in Russia was revised cardinally. One of the major characteristics of this system is its conformity with EC systems, developed and operational in other countries. Below in the paper the conceptual approaches to the Russian EC system for consignments of RM and its tasks are considered, and the description of the particular contents of EC with brief substantiation is submitted.