The Federal Law Radiation Safety Of The Population. The Law has passed through The State Duma on December 5, 1995. Number N-3-FZ

Automatic translation: This Federal Law defines the legal basis for ensuring the radiation safety of the population in order to protect its health. 1. The main principles of ensuring radiation safety are: the principle of rationing - not exceeding the permissible limits of individual exposure doses to citizens from all sources of ionizing radiation; the principle of justification - the prohibition of all types of activities involving the use of sources of ionizing radiation, in which the benefits received for a person and society do not exceed the risk of possible harm caused by radiation additional to the natural radiation background; the optimization principle is to maintain at the lowest possible and achievable level, taking into account economic and social factors, of individual doses of radiation and the number of exposed persons when using any source of ionizing radiation. 2. In a radiation accident, the radiation safety system of the population is based on the following principles: the proposed measures to eliminate the consequences of a radiation accident should bring more benefits than harm; the types and scope of activities to eliminate the consequences of a radiation accident should be implemented in such a way that the benefits of reducing the dose of ionizing radiation, with the exception of the harm caused by these activities, are maximized.