Is Not the Universality of Implementation of IAEA Rules as Difficult to Maintain as It Was to Obtain?

Year
1989
Author(s)
M. Grenier - Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique, Institut de Protection et de Surete Nucleaire
File Attachment
1873.PDF1.98 MB
Abstract
It is quite a common place to say that the IAEA recommendations on the safe transport of radioactive materials remarkably succeeded in their task to uniformize the applicable rules, and by that way to make it possible to carry radioactive material nationally and internationally. That is true, at the present time as well from the geographical and political standpoint, as from the modal standpoint, that means, whichever is the country, the air or maritime space, or the transport mode. The transcription of IAEA rules in the regulations or recommendations of modal international organizations, and in the national rules allowed to get to this very favorable situation. It is however another common place to say that the problems set up by this carriage evolve with the technical progress and nuclear knowledge as well as with the evolution and development of their implementation, and, therefore, the applicable rules must be adapted to the evolution and evolve themselves.