Penalties for the crime of producing, storing and transporting radioactive substances

Article 309,The 2015 Penal Code (amended in 2017) stipulates tIllegal production, storage, transportation, use, dissemination, trading or appropriation of radioactive substances or nuclear materials, as follows:

1. Anyone who illegally produces, stores, transports, uses, distributes, trades or appropriates radioactive substances or nuclear materials shall be subject to imprisonment from 02 to 07 years.

2. Committing a crime in one of the following cases shall be punishable by imprisonment from 05 years to 12 years:

a) Organized;

b) Transport and trade across borders;

c) Causing death;

d) Causing injury or damage to the health of another person with a bodily injury rate of 61% or more;

d) Causing injury or damage to the health of 02 or more people, with the total body injury rate of these people from 61% to 121%;

e) Causing property damage from VND 100,000,000 to under VND 500,000,000;

g) Dangerous recidivism.

3. Committing a crime in one of the following cases shall be punishable by imprisonment from 10 to 15 years:

a) Killed 02 people;

b) Causing injury or damage to the health of 02 or more people, with the total body injury rate of these people from 122% to 200%;

c) Causing property damage from VND 500,000,000 to under VND 1,500,000,000.

4. Committing a crime in one of the following cases shall be punishable by imprisonment from 15 to 20 years or life imprisonment:

a) Causing the death of 3 or more people;

b) Causing injury or damage to the health of 03 or more people, with the total body injury rate of these people being 201% or more;

c) Causing property damage of VND 1,500,000,000 or more.

5. The offender may also be fined from VND 10,000,000 to VND 50,000,000, placed under probation or banned from residence from 01 to 05 years.