The Nuclear Safety Law was promulgated in 2017 and entered into force on January 1, 2018.

There are 94 articles in total.

The key points are as follows:

1.This Law applies to any activity, within the territory of the People’s Republic of China and other sea areas under its jurisdiction, conducted to prevent nuclear accidents caused by technical reasons, human reasons or natural disasters and to minimize the radioactive consequences in the case of nuclear accidents, by taking adequate preventive, protective, mitigating, regulatory and other safety measures against nuclear facilities, nuclear material and other relevant radioactive waste.

2.The nuclear safety supervision and administration department of the State Council shall be responsible for supervision and administration of nuclear safety.

3.No entity or individual may jeopardize the safety of nuclear facilities or nuclear material. A citizen, a legal person or any other organization shall be entitled to access to nuclear safety information in accordance with the law and, if suffering nuclear damage, have the right to claim compensation under the law.

4.The nuclear safety supervision and administration department of the State Council shall publicly disclose under the law administrative licensing relating to nuclear safety and such information as reports on safety supervision and inspection of activities regarding nuclear safety, overall safety situation, radiation environment quality, and nuclear accidents. Nuclear safety information required to be publicly disclosed by the law shall be so disclosed in a timely manner by government announcements, websites or any other means facilitating public knowledge.