Standards and safety rules in an international comparison

It is seen that it is not the big existing differences in the basic requirements from nuclear power plants - such as the differing requirements relating to the degree of redundancy of safety systems - that causes difficulties, but mostly the regulations which are more detailed. The article shows that the international comparison of nuclear-technical regulations, with regard to the basic requirements, is possible; that it is, however, connected with extremely strong efforts with regard to the regulation of the details. It would be very helpful to those countries which have relatively small nuclear programmes and are not able or willing to establish their own regulations if there were a delineation based on the IAEA-codes and guides of the NUSS-programme which systematically refers to those parts of the German regulations which have to be added as necessary completion. (orig./HP)