STUK at your service

Welcome to STUK - Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Finland.  There are about 340 STUK professionals at your service. We all want to keep our environment free from radioactive substances. Our objective  is that Finns would be exposed to radiation as little as possible, whether it is natural radiation or whether the radiation is caused by man. Our goals are documented in  the Quality Policy.  The Quality Policy is the first guide in our Quality Manual.

STUK strategy defines for example our mission and values.

STUK belongs to the administration of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health.

STUK operates in a large field. We regulate the use of nuclear energy. We do research on the means of radon prevention in Finnish homes and workplaces. We study the radiation effects of cellular telephones. We make sure that when radiation is used the doses are kept as low as possible to get the wanted results. This concerns, for instance, X-ray examinations and sunbed use.

We want to be certain of the high quality of our work. Therefore independent evaluation is important.

Effectiveness of STUK´s Regulatory Infrastructure for Waste Safety

STUK invited European regulators to participate in an EU-27 Peer Review of its processes for regulating radioactive waste management activities in Finland. This peer review took place on November 2009.

  

Expert team evaluated the research activities of STUK

In 2005 the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health called an international expert team to evaluate the research activities of STUK. According to the report, the research at STUK is of high level but more attention should be paid to priorisation of the projects.  On international level, STUK’s research activities were previously evaluated in 2000. The expert team comments that STUK has carefully taken into account the recommendations given in the earlier evaluation. Several of these recommendations had been successfully solved and implemented.

Evaluation of the research activities of STUK in the end of 2000 (pdf) 

Radiation protection and nuclear safety grow from knowledge and from work based on that  knowledge. STUK expects its clients to perceive safety in this way - and it adheres to the same safety culture. 

IRRT team evaluated STUK´s effectiveness as an authority

In the spring of 2000 an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team IRRT evaluated STUK's effectiveness as an authority in ensuring nuclear and radiation safety. The group gave some recommendations to improve activities (IRRT report 2000). The Finnish Governmental Authorities requested a follow-up mission to review the measures undertaken following the recommendations and suggestions presented in the IRRT-report. The review was conducted in the fall of 2003 by an IAEA team: