Conveners
Safeguards by Design
- Caroline Jorant (France)
- Melissa Scholz (USA)
Safeguards by Design
- Caroline Jorant (France)
- Melissa Scholz (USA)
Stephanie POIRIER
(IAEA)
23/10/2014, 14:10
oral
One of the IAEA’s statutory objectives is to seek to accelerate and enlarge the contribution of nuclear energy to peace, health and prosperity throughout the world. One way the IAEA works to achieve this objective is through the publication of technical series that can provide guidance to Member States. These series include the IAEA Services Series, the IAEA Safety Standard Series, the IAEA...
Tsuyoshi SAMPEI
(JAPAN NUCLEAR FUEL LIMITED)
23/10/2014, 14:30
oral
The construction of JNFL MOX Fuel Fabrication Plant (J-MOX) is proceeding toward active test using uranium and MOX in July 2017 and completion of construction in October 2017. Although the construction schedule is largely impacted by progress of licensing, according to domestic law, JNFL is making every effort to get necessary permission of business license and authorization of design and...
Marko Hämäläinen
(Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK))
23/10/2014, 14:50
oral
Safeguards by design (SbD) promotes consideration of safeguards requirements and obligations as an integral part of planning and construction of a new nuclear facility or planning and modification of an existing facility.
One important step in introducing safeguards into facility design requirements was to include safeguards into the IAEA safety standards on “Safety of Nuclear Power Plants:...
Gennady Pshakin
(Institute of Physics and Power Engineering)
23/10/2014, 15:10
oral
Small Modular Reactors (SMR) with power levels significantly less than the currently standard 1000 to 1600-MWe reactors have been promoted as having a simpler, more standardized, and safer modular design by using factory built and easily transportable components. Because many SMRs designs are still conceptual and consequently not yet fixed, designers have a unique opportunity to incorporate...
Francois-Xavier Briffod
(DCNS)
23/10/2014, 16:00
oral
The Flexblue system is an innovative concept that consists in a small size transportable nuclear power plant to be sited on a flat sea bottom together with on shore command and control as well as fuel loading/unloading facilities.
Although it is only at an early design phase, it seems appropriate to share some considerations on the specificities that this model may entail from an...
Alan Homer
(Sellafield Limited)
23/10/2014, 16:20
oral
Safeguards-by-design is defined as the consideration of safeguards throughout the lifetime of a facility, from conceptual design to decommissioning. A new nuclear material storage facility has been designed and is in the process of being constructed on Sellafield site as part of the UK strategy for consolidating nuclear material from other UK facilities to allow for their declassification. The...
Fabiana Rossi
(University of Bologna)
23/10/2014, 16:40
oral
The Generation IV International Forum Proliferation Resistance and Physical Protection Working Group has developed a methodology for the PR&PP evaluation of the next generation Nuclear Energy Systems. Following this methodology the main objective of this work is not only to apply the methodology, but to show an example of how the results could be used by
designers to improve the PR of the...
Padmakumar Sankaran Nair
(Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India)
23/10/2014, 17:00
oral
Implementation of safeguards in bulk handling facilities such as fuel fabrication facilities and reprocessing facilities are a challenging task. This is attributed to the nuclear material present in the facility in the form of powder, pellet, green pellet, solution and gaseous. Additionally material hold up, material unaccounted for (MUF) and the operations carried out round the clock add to...
