Technical Meeting on Experience in Codes and Standards for Fusion Technology

Session

Applicability to Regulation Frameworks and Safety

19 Nov 2025, 15:15

M5 (IAEA Headquarters, Vienna, Austria)

24. SPARC PROGRESS AND CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF THE CODE OF RECORD FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARC

Tyler Ellis (Commonwealth Fusion Systems)

Oral

In March 2023, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) unanimously agreed to regulate fusion energy facilities under the byproduct materials framework of 10 CFR 30—commonly applied to particle accelerators and medical irradiation systems—rather than the 10 CFR 50/52 framework for fission reactors. This approach mirrors that of the U.K., where fusion facilities are overseen by the Health...

26. Strategic Use and Development of Codes and Standards to Enable the Deployment of Fusion Power Plants

Mr Andrew Proffitt (Helion Energy)

Oral

This presentation examines strategic approaches to fusion codes and standards development, emphasizing three key principles: leveraging existing commercial industry standards, allowing adequate operational experience and design standardization prior to establishing fusion-specific requirements, and assessing the most efficient and appropriate regulatory applications for codes and standards....

23. The relationship between the regulatory frameworks and codes & standards for fusion facilities

Joachim Herb (Gesellschaft für Anlagen- und Reaktorsicherheit (GRS) gGmbH)

Oral

Codes and standards (C&S) play an important role in the regulatory frameworks for both, radiation protection and nuclear facilities. Currently, internationally different approaches for fusion regulation either already exists or are currently being developed based either the regulatory framework for radiation protection or nuclear facilities. Thereby, the fusion regulatory framework most likely...