Mr
Habib Uzman
(PNRA)
28/10/2014, 12:30
Interface Issues
Contributed
Independent Regulator’s Level-1 PSA Model for 300 MWe Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) has been developed by the Technical Support Organization (TSO) of Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority (PNRA) to support regulatory oversight process. PSA model development project was initiated by the regulatory body as a tool for ensuring safety of the nuclear power plant in relation to potential...
Dr
Dmitry Lobach
(Gosatomnadzor)
28/10/2014, 12:30
Interface Issues
Contributed
Approaches to technical and scientific support for the Nuclear Regulatory Authority in Belarus (Ministry for Emergency Situations/Gosatomnadzor) are described and compared with the recommendations of the IAEA. It is a challenge to establish the needed NRA TSO capacities for the nuclear regulatory body inside existing national institutions (Intra- TSO network). Initially, the technical support...
Prof.
Mohamed Abdel Geleel
(Head of Safety of Nuclear Fuel Cycle)
28/10/2014, 12:30
Interface Issues
Contributed
TSO is a technical and scientific support organization that provides support concerning nuclear and radiation safety issues to the national regulatory authority (NRA) “regulator” or to the nuclear industry “operator”. National regulatory authorities are responsible for licensing nuclear installations, for issuing regulations and for supervising licensed facilities during their operation, with...
Prof.
Eugenijus Uspuras
(Lithuanian Energy Institute)
28/10/2014, 12:30
Interface Issues
Contributed
The closure of Ignalina NPP in Lithuania at the end of 2009 brought to an end the previous nuclear energy generation period of Lithuania. After being a net exporter of electricity for more than two decades, from the beginning of 2010 Lithuania changed its status overnight to that of importer. The closure of Ignalina NPP also had significant impact on the balance of energy distribution in...
Dr
Peter Kohut
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
28/10/2014, 12:30
Interface Issues
Contributed
Nuclear energy offers long-term economic and environmental benefits providing a reliable energy source with significant environmental advantages in reducing the effect of human activities on global warming. National governments in countries operating or planning to establish nuclear facilities have instituted regulatory regimes on the use of nuclear materials and facilities to insure a high...
Prof.
Artur Buzdugan
(National Agency for Regulation of Nuclear and Radiological Activity), Mr
Aurelian Buzdugan
(Cyber Security Center CERT-GOV-MD, S.E. Center for Special Telecommunications)
28/10/2014, 12:30
Interface Issues
Contributed
Actuality of the development of TSO is becoming more acute in the context of the increasing role of nuclear technologies in the development of society. This is not due by diminishing the role of the National Agency for Regulation of Nuclear and Radiological Activity (sole Regulatory Body in Moldova), but due to the complexity and multilateral areas which may influence the radiation protection,...
Mr
Manuel Ramos Funcada
(Centro Nacional de Seguridad Nuclear)
28/10/2014, 12:30
Interface Issues
Contributed
Following an objective approach, the interests of operators, regulatory authorities, and of the public, with regard to major hazard industries and practices would coincide in that all of them wish no undesirable outcomes from their applications. This paper conveys the will to share experiences gone through in Cuba that might be helpful to others, especially developing countries, in...
Mr
Tomasz Jackowski
(National Centre for Nuclear Research)
28/10/2014, 12:30
Interface Issues
Contributed
The main reason of crisis in nuclear development in the world is the high level of risk connected with nuclear investment. The main goal for nuclear stakeholders is the decrease of this risk. Without risk decrease the financing of nuclear power is possible only with very strong dependence on national governmental financing or support. There are two main sources of risk for nuclear industry:...
Dr
Reiner Axel Mailänder
(Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate ENSI)
28/10/2014, 12:30
Interface Issues
Contributed
The research strategy of the Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate ENSI contains several objectives, which refer to the competence and independence of expertise ENSI needs to fulfil its duties:
- Maintaining and expanding ENSI's own expertise and that of ENSI's external specialists;
- Developing independent expertise by preferring research projects carried out by specialists who will...