生态环境部（国家核安全局）
Ministry of Ecology and Environment（National Nuclear Safety Administration）

China’s EIA Law for Nuclear
Energy-related Activities
Li Jingyun
Department of Nuclear Facilities Safety
Ministry of Ecology and Environment生态环境部（国家核安全局）
Ministry of Ecology and Environment（National Nuclear Safety Administration）

Contents
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EIA Relative Law

2

EIA Legal System

40 years ago BeijingDaya Bay Nuclear Power Plant

40 years ago Shenzhen
A very small fishing village

In the past 40 years, China's reforms have beensuccessful in economic dev’t and social progress

Gross Domestic Product Growth Rate
U.S.
USChinaJapan

IndianChina’s GDP: The World's
Second-Largest Economy from 2011

Vows to “Build a beautiful China“ in2012

Xi Jinping, the general secretary of theCommunist Party of China Central

Environmental Protection Law
First Release:
1979-04-24
Newly Amended:2014-04-24
Come into Effect:
2015-01-01

Environmental Protection Law

The Most Strict
Env’l Law
in China’s History

China’s New
Environmental Protection Law：

The most Substantial
Step Toward
Fighting Pollutant

China’s New
Environmental Protection Law：

The Leadership Take
Threaten byPollution Seriously

Fire PowerPlant

Fire PowerPlant

Dev’t Nuclear Energy to bridge the gap inenergy supply, and address thechallenges

4511

Nuclear Safety
Law
No.73 Orderof the Presidentof the P.R.C
Adopted:2017-09-01
Come into Effect:
2018-01-01

Adopted after a third reading ofthe Standing Committee of the NPC

Env’l Impact Assessment
Law
First Release:2002-10-28
Newly Amended:2018-12-29
Come into Effect:
2018-12-29

Prevention and Control ofRadioactive Pollution Law
Adopted:
2003-06-28
Come into Effect:
2003-10-01

EIA Relative Law
 Env’l Protection Law (2015)
 Env’l Impact Assessment

Law (2018)

 Nuclear Safety Law (2018)
 Radioactive Pollution Prevention andControl Law (2003)

生态环境部（国家核安全局）
Ministry of Ecology and Environment（National Nuclear Safety Administration）

Contents
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EIA Relative Law

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EIA Legal System

EIA Legal System
1. Whole Process EIA
2. Information Disclosure
3. Public Involvement

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Whole Process EIA• Siting• Construction• Loading fuel• Operation• Decommissioning

Nuclear Installation• Nuclear power plants (nuclearelectricity plants, nuclear thermalplants, nuclear industrial heatingplants, etc.)• Other reactors (research reactors,experimental reactors, criticalfacilities, etc.)• Nuclear fuel fabrication, processing,storage and reprocessing facilities• Radioactive waste management• Disposal facilities

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2Gov’t Information Disclosure

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Operator Information
Disclosure

3.

Release Full Text of EIA
ReportArticle 56
The project owner of aconstruction project shall explain relevant
situations to the potentially-affected public when
preparing the env’l impact report, and solicit
public opinions.
The department that is responsible for theexamination and approval of EIA reports for theconstruction project shall make public the full textof environmental impact reports of the construction
project upon receipt thereof with exception ofEnv’l circumstances
Protectioncommercial secrets and New
confidential
asspecified by the State.
LawRelease Full Text of EIA
ReportNew Env’l Protection
LawPremier

Efforts were accelerated toincrease governmenttransparencyLi12369:Public Report Hotline

Disclose telephone number
to facilitate public reportPublic Report Hotline

New Env’l Protection
Law

Air quality had been improved

The Forbidden City looks beautiful inthe clean air on Nov 29, 2018

Tourists Pose in front of Tiananmen
Square in Beijing on Dec 15, 2018

New York Times
March 12th, 2018
• Following the encouraging news fromthe Energy Policy Institute at theUniversity of Chicago (EPIC) lastweek• The improvements in air quality in
China have been “remarkable”• China has achieved in 4 years what it
took the US 12 years to make happen
after the Clean Air Act of 1970.

Regulation
Principle

IndependentOpen
Law-governing
Rational
Effective

Way of Regulation

More Strict
More Prudent
More Delicate
MorePragmatic生态环境部（国家核安全局）
Ministry of Ecology and Environment（National Nuclear Safety Administration）

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