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... NOTING that comprehensive measures have been and are being take to ensure a high level of safety in nuclear activities, aimed at preventing nuclear accidents and minimizing the consequences of any such accident, should it occur, ...
ARTICLE-1: Scope of application [go to this ARTICLE]
... This Convention shall apply in the event of any accident involving facilities or activities of a State Party or of persons or legal entities under its jurisdiction or control, referred to in paragraph 2 below, from which a release of radioactive material occurs or is likely to occur and which has resulted or may result in an international transboundary release that could be of radiological safety significance for another State.
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... The facilities and activities referred to in paragraph 1 are the following:
- any nuclear reactor wherever located;
- any nuclear fuel cycle facility;
- any radioactive waste management facility;
- the transport and storage of nuclear fuels or radioactive wastes;
- the manufacture, use, storage, disposal and transport of radioisotopes for agricultural, industrial, medical and related scientific and research purposes; and
- the use of radioisotopes for power generation in space objects.
ARTICLE-5: Information to be provided [go to this ARTICLE]
... the facility or activity involved;
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ARTICLE-8: Assistance to States Parties [go to this ARTICLE]
... The Agency shall, in accordance with its Statute and upon a request of a State Party which does not have nuclear activities itself and borders on a State having an active nuclear programme but not Party, conduct investigations into the feasibility and establishment of an appropriate radiation monitoring system in order to facilitate the achievement of the objectives of this Convention. ...