Mandate:

• To authorise and regulate the civilian use of nuclear and other radioactive sources in Ghana
• To ensure the protection of the general public, patients, people who work with radiation, property and the environment from the harmful effects of radiations.
• To regulate research reactors, the gamma irradiation facility; and radioactive sources used in medicine, industry, research, education and in the near future commercial nuclear power plants.
• To regulate the possession, use, transport, storage and the disposal of radioactive materials and radioactive waste and also licence the import and export of radioactive materials.