Published June 16, 1997 | Version v1
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Swedish REGULATORY APPROACH TO SAFETY Assessment AND SEVERE ACCIDENT MANAGEMENT

  • 1. Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate, S-106 58 Stockholm (Sweden)

Description

The Swedish regulatory approach to safety assessment and severe accident management is briefly described. The safety assessment program, which focuses on prevention of incidents and accidents, has three main components: periodic safety reviews, probabilistic safety analysis, and analysis of postulated disturbances and accident progression sequences. Management and man-technology-organisation issues, as well as inspections, play a key role in safety assessment. Basis for severe accident management were established by the Government decisions in 1981 and 1986. By the end of 1988, the severe accident mitigation systems and emergency operating procedures were implemented at all Swedish reactors. The severe accident research has continued after 1988 for further verification of the protection provided by the systems and reduction of remaining uncertainties in risk dominant phenomena

Availability note (English)

Available from Nuclear Power Plants Research Institute Trnava a.s., Okruzna 5, 918 64 Trnava (Slovak Republic).

Additional details

Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
6 p.

Conference

Title
International Conference on Severe Accident Risk and Management.
Dates
16-18 Jun 1997.
Place
Piestany (Slovakia).

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