Findings and perspectives of reactor safety research and its funding by the German Federal Ministry for Research and Technology (BMFT)

The research and development work done so far has made a considerable contribution to exploring the safety factors of nuclear power stations and their systems and to developing safety techniques further. One should emphasize the work on quantifying the risks associated with the use of nuclear power, which pinpoint weaknesses in the safety concept. Future points for reactor safety research are still component safety, quality assurance, transient analysis, the course of accidents, man/machine interfaces, the analysis of weaknesses and reliability. (DG)