Environmental rehabilitation of radioactively contaminated territories as a component of environmental safety

Abstract

The article is devoted to determining the content of environmental rehabilitation of radioactively contaminated territories as a component of environmental safety. The article carries out a theoretical and legal analysis of environmental security, examines the main doctrinal approaches to determining its content and main components. The article also provides the author’s definition of ecological rehabilitation of radioactively contaminated territories as a component of environmental safety, outlines the purpose and tasks of the specified process. 
 The author determined that the key factor in the implementation of effective ecological rehabilitation of radioactively contaminated territories is the provision of the appropriate amount of funding. In turn, the amount of financing measures for the ecological improvement of radioactively contaminated territories depends on the priorities of the government of each state. In the case of limited financing of measures for the ecological rehabilitation of radioactively contaminated territories, the state government should develop a comprehensive strategy for the ecological rehabilitation of radioactively contaminated territories and objects. Provision of financing for the implementation of measures in the field of ecological rehabilitation of radioactively contaminated territories should be done in such a way as not to transfer the burden to future generations.
 Based on the analysis, it was concluded that there is a need to improve the current legislation of Ukraine in terms of the legal regulation of environmental rehabilitation of radioactively contaminated territories, namely, to enshrine at the legislative level the procedure for the formation and use of funds intended for the termination of activities of radioactively contaminated objects, the procedure for involving the public in activities in the field of remediation of radioactively contaminated territories, effective mechanisms of management and assessment of developed projects, since the current legislative framework of Ukraine, which regulates the issue of ecological remediation of radioactively contaminated territories in general, is absent. The norms contained in the laws are of a local nature: they apply only to the territories affected by the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.