ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY OF THE CORPORATION: EFFICIENCY OF THE SYSTEMIC APPROACH

Abstract

Ensuring environmental safety is a serious problem that can be solved through environmental
policy. The article considers the ecological efficiency of the systemic approach to the implementation of
environmental policy in the context of the Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation. It is shown that the main
feature of the Corporation's environmental policy is a systematic approach, which consists in the
implementation of the following principles: planning, implementation, reporting, control, and continuous
improvement of environmental performance based on these principles. A decrease in the collective dose of
personnel radiation exposure from 206.2 to 113.7 mSv during 15 years and a reduction of all types of harmful
impact on the environment is shown based on experimental data. Implementation of the Federal Target Program
for 2008-2015 allowed increasing the area of the rehabilitated territories almost twice, disposal of the spent
fuel assemblies – by 1.2 times, number of the liquidated dangerous objects – by 1.3 times. The ecological
efficiency of the implementation of the systemic approach in the environmental policy of the Corporation is
shown based on specific factors indicating reduction of hazardous substances’ emissions, discharges into water
bodies, and waste generation, as well as factors indicating the efficiency of liquidation of the nuclear industry
hazardous facilities and rehabilitation of radiation-contaminated areas. The systemic approach and high
environmental efficiency performance allow recommending the Rosatom's best practices for the environmental
policy implementation in other energy and industrial sectors.