CRIMINAL LIABLE FOR ILLEGAL HANDLING OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS OR RADIOACTIVE SUBSTANCES
The article considers the questions connected with the qualification of actions of the perpetrators under Art. 220 of the criminal code « Illegal handling of nuclear materials or radioactive substances». Special attention is given to the objective side of the considered a crime. The author analyzes in detail the legislation of the Russian Federation, Ukraine to persons who have committed illegal actions with nuclear materials or radioactive substances, and offers besides acquisition, storage, use, transfer and destruction of nuclear materials or radioactive substances to introduce criminal responsibility for their transportation and transportation, which should also be listed in the criminal law as one of the means of committing the crime; proposes to increase the sanction of an article in the case of causing death by negligence to two or more persons in the illicit circulation of nuclear materials or radioactive substances; considers that the offender should be recognized as a person under the age of sixteen years, including the fact that nuclear materials and radioactive substances placed on the service. Offers and other recommendations on improvement of the norms of criminal legislation regulating illegal handling of nuclear materials or radioactive substances.