National Atomic Energy Agency

On 5 and 6 April 2022, in Bonn, Germany, there was a plenary meeting of the Western European Nuclear Regulators Association (WENRA). The meeting was attended by the heads of European nuclear regulators. Poland was represented by the Vice President, Mr Andrzej Głowacki.

The National Atomic Energy Agency (PAA) and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) ran a virtual workshop on approach to licensing new nuclear facilities, including small modular reactors (SMR).

On 9 March 1982, the Act establishing the National Atomic Energy Agency came into force. This year, we celebrate our 40th anniversary. We are a Polish nuclear regulatory authority in charge of nuclear safety and radiological protection. How does it work in practice? Here is a short film about our current activities.

“As the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine (SNRIU) reports, there is no damage to the systems which are vital for the nuclear safety of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant"- the Minister of Climate and Environment, Anna Moskwa, emphasized on 4 March 2022. The President of the National Atomic Energy Agency, Łukasz Młynarkiewicz, also participated in the press conference”.

On 3 March, the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), during an emergency meeting, called at the request of Poland and Canada, adopted a resolution deploring Russian aggression against Ukraine and calling for the cessation of all actions against nuclear facilities on its territory. During the 2-day Board’s session, Poland was represented by Dr. Łukasz Młynarkiewicz, President of the Polish National Atomic Energy Agency, and Dominika Krois, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Republic of Poland to the United Nations Office in Vienna.

On February 27, at an extraordinary meeting, the European Nuclear Regulators Group (ENSREG) met with representatives of the European Commission, the International Atomic Energy Agency and the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine (SNRIU). Poland was represented by the President and Deputy President of the National Atomic Energy Agency. The ENSREG meeting was devoted to the situation in Ukraine.

In a request submitted on February 26 to the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Poland and Canada, as the Board members, requested that an emergency meeting of the Board be convened in view of the situation in Ukraine and the related implications for nuclear safety and radiological protection.

The nuclear waste storage facilities in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have not been damaged, the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine (SNRIU) informs. SNRIU adds that the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is occupied by Russian troops, while the elevated radiation levels recorded by the radiation monitoring system in the zone are caused by moving heavy vehicles which lift contaminated dust from the soil into the air.

Due to the situation in the vicinity of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the National Atomic Energy Agency informs that the radiation levels in Poland remain normal, and that there is no threat to human health and life in the territory of the Republic of Poland.