Safety and security of radioactive sources in Kazakhstan

This paper contains the following questions connected with the problems use of radioactive sources: - Kazakhstan has a developed complex of industrial enterprises, power plants, mining and oil industries, which use tens of thousands of ionizing sources. An overview; - Strengthening the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan for sources accounting, control and tracking. The focus will be made on the enterprises that have not passed the licensing procedure. This also includes enterprises that terminated their financial and economic activities after the collapse of the Soviet Union; - The need to review and reevaluate the existing system of radioactive sources physical protection at the enterprises that use, store and transport (including boarding pass) the sources. Activities planned by the Kazakhstan State authorities to improve the state sealed sources control regime in answer to the increased requirements for safe management of radioactive materials. The main trends of this activity are as follows: - Systematization of the control and accounting of radioactive sources that are in use or being stored; - Organization of the search and conditioning of orphan sources; - Coordination of ministries' and agencies' efforts in organizing measures to prevent unauthorized use of radioactive sources (author)