Feedback of operational safety experience from nuclear power plants

The IAEA and the Nuclear Energy Agency of the OECD jointly organized this Symposium, on the Feedback of Operational Safety Experience from Nuclear Power Plants, which was held in Paris from 16 to 20 May 1988. The purpose of the Symposium was to provide a forum for the detailed exchange of experience and to discuss various ways of closing the feedback loop, with the ultimate goal of enhancing the level of operational safety at nuclear power plants. Participants at the Symposium dealt with many of the essential aspects of the optimization of plant operational safety. The Symposium was attended by 167 participants from 28 Member States and 4 international organizations. Fifty-nine papers were presented and discussed during four scientific sessions. Additional sessions were devoted to a Panel Discussion by a group of senior experts on future trends in the efforts to improve the operational safety of nuclear power plants and the presentation of a statement summarizing the Symposium. These Proceedings include the full texts of the papers presented during the sessions and the Panel Discussion, and of the summary of the Symposium. The presentations were subdivided into 4 sessions: Methods of identification of operational safety issues in Nuclear Power Plants (12 papers); Methods of analysis of operational safety issues (16 papers); Corrective actions implemented as a result of operating experience (15 papers); Operational safety experience feedback systems (15 papers). A separate abstract was prepared for each of these papers. Refs, figs and tabs