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Innovative technologies development in the field of atomic energy use, including small modular reactors, is accompanied by development and implementation of new design decisions as well as technical and organizational measures to ensure safety. This, in turn, leads to the necessity to develop new safety requirements for small modular reactors to ensure successful and safe functioning of the nuclear power industrial complex. The above-mentioned activities should be preceded by the comprehensive work, including assessment of the completeness and sufficiency of the national legal and regulatory framework; analysis of the international experience; analysis and evaluation of proposed innovative solutions; development of approaches to account the specifics of small modular reactors when regulating safety.
Over the past few years in the Russian Federation, as part of the development of nuclear energy technologies, a significant amount of work has been carried out on the creation of small modular reactors, including the water-cooled reactors (RITM-200 and SHELF-M) and high temperature gas-cooled reactors (VTGR).
The report demonstrates the impact of the development of small modular reactor technologies on the processes of improving the legal and regulatory framework in order to establish additional specialized rules and regulations that take into account the specifics of the most promising small modular reactors. Among other things, the report includes information on approaches to conducting pre-licensing analysis and evaluation of safety justifications for small modular reactor projects close to implementation, as well as approaches to organizing interaction between the regulatory body (Rostechnadzor) and the authorized body for control of the atomic energy use, operating organizations, designers and other organizations involved in the deployment of small modular reactors.
| Country OR International Organization | Russia |
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| Email address | hlobystov@secnrs.ru |
| Confirm that the work is original and has not been published anywhere else | YES |
