[en] The AECB contractor's style manual sets down basic standards for content and layout of typewritten reports. Points of style are outlined for reference by authors. The elements of a document and their location are described, and instructions to typists are detailed. Example of proper usage are given and the appendices contain layout pro formas for the setting up of any typewritten page. (author)

[en] This publication provides the outline of a programme to strengthen regulatory competences, based on the operating experience of countries with a developed nuclear programme and which are members of the Forum of Radiological and Nuclear Regulatory Agencies (FORO). The guidelines are designed to optimize the resources of the Ibero-American region and they complement and supplement the IAEA’s Safety Reports Series No. 79 as a frame of reference.

[en] The CLIC Conceptual Design Report (CDR) must be ready by 2010. This paper aims at addressing all the critical points of the CLIC Beam Delivery Systems (BDS) to be later implemented in the CDR. This includes risk evaluation and possible solutions to a number of selected points. The smooth and practical transition between the 500 GeV CLIC and the design energy of 3 TeV is also studied.

[en] The objectives of this report are (1) to define the requirements and outline the guidelines so that the safety of existing dams can be investigated and identified in a consistent and adequate manner across Canada, (2) to enable the consistent evaluation of dam safety deficiencies leading to the construction of improvements which contribute to dam safety, and (3) to provide a basis for dam safety legislation and regulation. The document contains statements of safety requirements, explanatory guidelines and commentaries. These clarify and expand upon some of the requirements and guidelines, and discuss alternative approaches to meeting the safety requirements. The report is divided into 12 sections which address criteria for earthquakes, floods and emergency preparedness. Geotechnical considerations and the effects of the reservoir environment are also discussed. These guidelines are not intended as design specifications for dam safety evaluation, design, construction or rehabilitation. From time to time, portions of these guidelines will be updated and issued to CDSA members. The user is responsible for ensuring that the most up-to-date version is being used. refs, tabs

[en] Critical review of the ICRP 60 Publication is given. Optimal text construction suiutable for different users as well as the document significance is marked. Disadvantages of the Publication caused by a large group of authors and absence of editor, possible haste and slipshod in data presentation are pointed out. Confusion in the terminology is indicated. Nevertheless, the high assessment is given to many positions of the Publication

[en] For the purpose of investigating the matters on which the promotion of research is desirable and the scientific and technical problems requiring rapid solution concerning the safety of nuclear reactors, thus contributing to the promotion of the research related to the safety of nuclear reactors, this committee started the activities in October, 1974. In this report, the activities of the committee after September, 1979 are described. Since then, the committee meetings were held 23 times. The following items were selected as those which should be investigated from the standpoint of nuclear safety: the accident in TMI-2 plant, reactor core damage, probabilistic safety evaluation, human factors, LOCA system experiment, structural strength, waste treatment and disposal, decommissioning, transport, environment, weather, disaster prevention, the relation of earthquake and disaster, laws, underground power stations, offshore power stations, data bases, fuel and materials, operational safety, regular inspection, disaster indemnity, radiation exposure control and physical protection. The accident in TMI-2 plant, the research on LOCA, the problems on the downstream side of nuclear power generation, the problems related to disasters and disaster prevention and so on are reported. (Kako, I.)

[en] The International Linear Collider (ILC) is a 500 GeV center-of-mass electron-positron linear collider based on 1.3 GHz superconducting rf. For the past two years, the ILC design has been developed by an international collaboration, the Global Design Effort. A draft Reference Design Report (RDR) for the ILC was released in February 2007 and, after international review, the final draft will be published in mid-July, 2007. This talk will describe the ILC design along with the outstanding R and D and engineering challenges. The next step is to complete an Engineering Design (EDR) by 2010, and plans for this phase will also be discussed.

[en] New IAEA publication concerning the problems of safety assurance covering different aspects beginning from terminology applied and up to concrete examples of well and poor safety culture development at nuclear facilities is discussed. The safety culture is defined as such set of characteristics and specific activities of institutions and individual persons which states that safety problems of a nuclear facility are given the attention determined by their importance as being of highest priority. The statements of the new document have recommended, not mandatory character. It is emphasized that the process of safety culture improvement at nuclear facilities should be integral component of management procedure, not a bolt on extra

[en] This publication provides the outline of a programme to strengthen regulatory competences, based on the operating experience of countries with a developed nuclear programme and which are members of the Forum of Radiological and Nuclear Regulatory Agencies (FORO). The guidelines are designed to optimize the resources of the Ibero-American region and they complement and supplement the IAEA’s Safety Reports Series No. 79 as a frame of reference.

[en] The activities of ICRP in the field of radiation protection, inhalation and ingestion of radionuclides and radiation monitoring, are described. (E.G.)