The Fukushima Daiichi Accident consists of a Report by the IAEA Director General and five technical volumes. It is the result of an extensive international collaborative effort involving five working groups with about 180 experts from 42 Member States with and without nuclear power programmes and several international bodies. It provides a description of the […]
In frame of Task 4 of AR/RA/05-06 project European Commission and the Czech nuclear safety regulatory body (SUJB) organized a working meeting for NRSC and ANRA representatives held on 14-18 September 2015. The meeting was held in SUJB and Temelin NPP (Czech Republic). During the meeting, several meetings with Czech regulatory body and operating organization […]
Two new Chinese nuclear power units – Changjiang 1 and Yangjiang 3 – have moved closer to commissioning by achieving a sustained chain reaction for the first time. Both reactors are expected to begin operating later this year. Unit 1 of the Changjiang nuclear power plant, under construction on China’s southern island province of Hainan, […]
From 26 June to 4 July of 2015 the leading specialist of radiological laboratory of NRSC was participating in the IAEA regional workshop on «Establishing Enhanced Approaches to the Control of Public Exposure to Radon». During the workshop the approaches on preventing measures of radon gas of experienced countries were discussed. NRSC is participating in […]
NRSC delegation comprising of the heads of neutronics analysis and nuclear fuel, thermal-hydraulics analysis and risk assessment groups, visited Regulatory Authority of the Republic of Belarus for an experience and knowledge shearing meeting from 29 to 31 July 2015. The purpose of the visit was to hold a training course on deterministic and probabilistic methods […]
NRSC delegation participated in the workshop on development of computational tools for nuclear materials management held from 20 to 21 June 2015 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. NRSC presented and demonstrated its own development – NUCMAT software that allows performing the nuclear material accounting both at the state and at the facility/LOF levels as well as generating […]
The meeting was devoted to developing and applying PSA based methods for complementary assessment of NPPs’ robustness against the impact of extreme events. The problematic issues raised during the previous technical meeting in 2014 were thoroughly discussed. Mainly following type of issues were covered: uncertainty in the phenomena of severe accidents and hazards, combination of […]
NRSC՛s representative participated in consultancy meeting held in Vienna from 20-24 April 2015. During the meeting, experts reviewed and discussed events reported to IRS in the period from 2012 to 2014. Total number of considered events is 254. After the screening 136 most interesting events were selected for Blue Book development. Selected events were grouped […]
NRSC’s staff member participated in a workshop which took place in Los Alamos National Laboratory; the workshop was devoted to Criticality Calculations with the MCNP. The workshop mainly was focused on best MCNP application practices as how to perform criticality calculations for reactor physics and criticality safety applications by applying the MCNP. During the workshop […]
Second meeting of the VVER Regulators Forum Working Group on Regulatory Use of PSA took place in Helsinki, Finland from 11 to 13 February 2015. The meeting was mainly devoted to: Task 1 – Comparison of current EE PSA approaches & regulations, Task 2 – Fukushima lessons learned for PSA implementation and Task 3 – […]