Comparative study on NPP design requirements between IAEA and Korea

The IAEA safety standards encompass international consensus to strengthen the nuclear safety and to reflect the latest advancement of safety regulation related technologies. Also, they provide a reliable means to ensure the effective fulfillment of obligations under the various international safety conventions. Many countries have adopted the IAEA safety standards as their national standards in nuclear regulations. And Korea has exported nuclear power plant technologies abroad these days. The KINS (Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety) has performed a review of the IAEA safety requirements for the design of NPPs(Nuclear Power Plants) [1] comparing with those of Korea. The purposes of this comparative study are to harmonize the design safety requirements for the NPPs of Korea with those of the IAEA as a member state of the IAEA, and to encompass global efforts to enhance the nuclear safety and to reflect the latest advancement of safety regulation related technologies into the design safety requirements for the NPPs of Korea. Design requirements for structures, systems, and components of NPPs as well as for procedures and organizational processes important to safety, which are required to be met for assuring safe operation, for preventing events that could compromise safety, or for mitigating the consequences of such events, have been reviewed in this study