Characteristics of Facilities of Critical State Infrastructure (Features of Nuclear and Other Strategic Facilities)

Abstract

The work defines the objects of the state's critical infrastructure, their relationship with strategic and other dangerous objects and productions. It should be noted that today Ukraine, as a state that defends its independence in the war, faces many different tasks, one of which is the protection of critical infrastructure objects from military-terrorist influence, the solution of which not only saves the lives of civilians, but also ensures the defense of sovereignty, territorial integrity and independent existence of the state. The solution of this task is carried out both in wartime and in peacetime. The problem is to determine the objects of the state's critical infrastructure, in their correlation with strategic and other dangerous objects and productions, which in practice allows determining the priority of their protection in terms of the involvement of technical and material means. Based on the above, the purpose of this article is to determine the relationship between the terms critical infrastructure object, potentially dangerous object, dangerous production object and strategic object, from the standpoint of ensuring their security and countering terrorist threats. The concept of state infrastructure and the process of formation of the term critical infrastructure of the state are considered. The characteristics of the objects of strategic purpose are given. The meaning of the concepts of potentially dangerous, dangerous industrial and critically important objects is analyzed. It is proved that based on the assessment of the constituent parts of the state's critical infrastructure, the concepts of a potentially dangerous object, an object of hazardous production, a critically important object and a strategic object can be considered identical in relation to nuclear objects. Prolonging the reasoning in this way, it is possible to confirm the validity of this identity in relation to other objects of critical infrastructure, for example, hydro and thermal power, petrochemicals and others. Keywords: critical infrastructure object, nuclear object, terror, dangerous object, protection, concept.

Threats and Risks Research Methods

“…Під загрозою розуміють потенційно можливу подію, яка може призвести до завдання шкоди (катастрофічна подія), а ризик -визначає ступінь небезпеки настання або впливу загрози (або набору загроз -сукупності катастрофічних подій) на конкретний об'єкт (ресурс процес або систему) [1]. У той же час, для конкретного небезпечного (наприклад, ядерного) об'єкта поняття певного виду загрози та ризику її настання пов'язані між собою.…”