Svetlana A. Shestovskaya

The author aims to analyze the impact of Soviet legislation on the development of Belarusian regulation in the field of nuclear waste management this publication. The subject of this research were legal acts since the construction of the first nuclear power plant on the territory of the USSR. It is noted that republican and Soviet legislation was applied until 1992, regulating the issues of radioactive waste management. An analysis of the documents establishing the rules for radioactive waste management is presented. The dynamics of improving the legal definition of “radioactive waste” in the acts of the USSR is analyzed. It is noted that the radioactive waste generated as a result of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, in accordance with the Belarusian legislation is separated into a different group, for which a special legal regulation has been established. The system of the Belarusian legislation of the post-Soviet period, which regulates the management of nuclear waste, including international legal acts, laws and other legislative acts is research. It is concluded that the legal regulation of the field of nuclear waste management in the USSR, which included Belarus, had detailed regulatory requirements, which were influenced by historical facts, scientific and technological progress and other ongoing events, which served as the basis for the formation of the national legislation of the Republic of Belarus in the studied area.