Comparison Analysis of Nuclear Regulatory Body based on Characteristics of an Effective Nuclear Regulator

To address these challenges, countries with existing nuclear facilities re-evaluate their regulatory framework to identify improvements whereas nuclear entrant countries strive to establish their robust and comprehensive regulatory infrastructure. Although every regulatory body is uniquely designed based on its energy policy, national law and regulation, and existing types of nuclear power plants, they also have common attributes and fundamental objectives. There are various nuclear regulatory bodies based on their national energy policy, legal and political system, nuclear facility types, etc. In this paper, we analyzed the regulatory frameworks of five different countries based on the attributes and principles exacted from the OECD/NEA guidance booklet 'The Characteristics of an Effective Nuclear Regulator' to provide good practices to not only countries with existing, mature regulators for benchmarking, but also for countries with new regulators in the process of establishing and developing regulatory infrastructure.