IRS national coordinators meeting was held in IAEA Headquarters on 28-31 October 2014. During the meeting representatives of member states presented and discussed recent events reported to IRS. Country presentations contain detailed information on the selected events, particularly following details have been presented: brief information about NPP, event description, direct and root causes, NPP safety […]
In the frame of STCU P461 project, NRSC participated in a training on Practical Aspects of Nuclear Forensics held on October 14-22, 2014. The training was organized by Nuclear Physics Institute and Kharkov Physical-Technical Institute of National Academy of Science in Ukraine. In Caucuses Armenia plays an essential role in fighting against illicit trafficking of […]
On October 14-16, 2014, NRSC’s experts took part in Mystic Deer tabletop exercise during the Nuclear Forensics Working Group Workshop in Budapest, Hungary. Nuclear Forensics is a practical-scientific research activity that aims at providing necessary technical evidence for detecting the crimes committed by the usage of the nuclear or radioactive materials. The key concepts of […]
Leading specialist on radiation safety of the NRSC Karen Haroyan participated in training on NDC (National Data Centre) Capacity Building: Access and Analysis of Radionuclide IMS (International Monitoring System) Data Products, which was held from September 29 to October 10, 2014, in Vienna International Center, organized by CTBTO. The training was quite interesting and fascinating, […]
In June 2011, the Armenian Nuclear Regulatory Authority requested for IPSART mission. In October 2014, the IAEA carried out the mission under the IAEA Extra Budgetary Project (EBP) funded by Norway and aimed at strengthening nuclear safety. IPSART mission’s objective was to carry out an independent international peer review of the Level-1 PSA study for […]
The second technical meeting on the FSA-ANPP project was held on August 18-22, in Vienna, Austria. The NRSC, the ANPP, the IAEA and the Lloyd Register (as an observer) representatives participated in the meeting. Several project-related issues were discussed during the meeting, and one of the discussed issues was the PSA model update aimed to […]