Speaker
Zsolt Stefanka
(Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority)
Description
The Hungarian SSAC has introduced a comprehensive domestic safeguards verification system consisting of regular comprehensive SSAC verifications in the whole lifetime of the facilities. The main goals of the comprehensive verification system is: (i) to assess the facility’s safeguards system compliance with the relevant national legislation and recommendations, (ii) to assess the activities of the facility aimed at maintaining and further developing its safeguards system and (iii) to revise validity of data and information previously provided by the facility subject to safeguards licensing procedures. The maintenance level of the system as well as the available knowledge on the possible needs for change reflect the top management’s awareness of this issue and is a good indicator of the present and future effectiveness of the facility level safeguards system and the level of safeguards culture. The structure, preparation, conduction, documentation and initial experiences of the comprehensive safeguards verification system is introduced in the paper. Additionally, HAEA has just introduced a safeguards indexing method for evaluation the safeguards culture at Hungarian nuclear facilities. The main goal of indexing method and the evaluated parameters are also shown in the paper.
Keywords: national safeguards system; comprehensive domestic safeguards verification system; safeguards culture; SSAC
| Country or International Organization | Hungary |
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Primary author
Zsolt Stefanka
(Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority)
Co-author
Arpad Vincze
(Hungarian Atomic Energy Authority)
