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Radiation Emergency

Radiation emergency is defined as an event occurring in the national territory or outside national borders involving nuclear material, ionizing radiation source, radioactive waste or other radioactive substances, which causes or might cause radiation hazards and creates the possibility of exceeding ionizing radiation dose limits as specified in the binding provisions of laws. Thus each radiation emergency requires immediate response and measures in order protect workers or the general public.    

Measures and actions taken in case of radiation emergency are regulated by the Regulation of the Council of Ministers of 18 January 2005 on emergency preparedness and response plans in case of radiation emergency (Journal of Laws No 20 Item 169) – in terms of events whose impact is limited to the site of an organizational entity (“on-site” events), in terms of events whose consequences appear beyond the site of organizational entities (“regional” and “national” events, including transboundary consequences).

Depending on the scale of radiation emergency consequences, either the head of entity (on-site emergency), or regional governor [voivode] in cooperation with the state sanitary inspector (regional emergency) or the Minister of Interior with the help of the President of National Atomic Energy Agency (national emergency) are responsible for measures aimed at eliminating threat and remedying consequences. In any case the President of National Atomic Energy Agency through the Radiation Emergency Centre (CEZAR), which he supervises, exercises an informative and advisory function, also in terms of assessing the level of doses and contaminations, and rendering advice on measures to be taken on the site of emergency.

The PAA President is also responsible for preparing releases to the general public and communities which are exposed as a consequence of radiation emergency, and for transmitting information to international organizations and neighbouring countries.               

Tight supervision and control over nuclear facilities and activities involving radiation sources contribute to the fact that the chance of radiation threats to the general public in Poland is very slim. In spite of this, the PAA President is provided with the system allowing to assess national radiation situation and make decisions regarding  necessary intervention measures.

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