"The achievement of proper operating conditions, prevention of accidents or mitigation of accident consequences, resulting in protection of workers, the public and the environment from undue radiation hazards."
The process of identifying and mitigating risks associated with nuclear technologies and operations.
Nuclear Reactors: An overview of the different types of nuclear reactors, their components, and operations.
Radiation Protection: The measures taken to prevent or reduce exposure to harmful radiation during nuclear operations.
Nuclear Fuel Cycle: The progression of nuclear fuel from mining to disposal, including processing, enrichment, and storage.
Nuclear Safety Regulations: The laws and guidelines that govern nuclear safety practices.
Emergency Response Planning: The plans and protocols established to respond to nuclear emergency situations.
Risk Assessment: The evaluation of potential risks associated with nuclear safety and the implementation of preventive measures.
Human Factors: Understanding human behaviour, how it can impact the safety of nuclear work and how safety measures can be most effective.
Safety Culture – focusing on the importance of safety in nuclear: Related activities and establishing a safety culture in the organization.
Safety Analysis: The systematic methodology for analyzing the safety of nuclear plants and identifying potential hazards.
Fault Tree Analysis: A diagram used to evaluate the probability of a failure or a hazard occurring, and to identify the causes and contributing factors.
Reliability Analysis: The evaluation of the reliability of nuclear systems and processes.
Probabilistic Safety Assessment: A tool to assess risks quantitatively and identify the measures required to control or reduce the risks.
Cybersecurity: Measures to protect against threats and hazards related to computer systems or networks.
Quality Assurance: The processes and procedures necessary to ensure that nuclear operations meet required standards.
Decommissioning: The steps needed to undertake decommissioning of a nuclear facility.
Waste management: The measures needed to safely dispose of nuclear waste.
Physical Security: Refers to the protection of nuclear plants from external threats such as terrorist attacks, sabotage, and theft, etc.
Personnel Security: Refers to the background screening, training, and certification of personnel involved in the operations, construction or management of nuclear plants.
Radiation Protection: Refers to the measures taken to protect workers and the general public from exposure to radiation from nuclear plants.
Reactor Control Systems: Refers to the safety systems used to control and monitor nuclear reactors, including safety valves, control rods, and instrumentation.
Emergency Preparedness: Refers to the planning and implementation of emergency response measures in case of an accident, natural disaster or other incidents.
Physical Plant Design: Refers to the design of nuclear plants that includes safety and security considerations, ensuring that the design sufficiently addresses safety and security concerns.
Nuclear Waste Management: Refers to the policies, procedures and safety measures implemented to ensure that nuclear waste is safely stored or disposed of after use.
Quality Assurance: Refers to the implementation of quality control procedures to ensure that nuclear plants are designed, constructed, and operated safely and with minimal risk.
Safety Culture: Refers to the practices, attitudes, and mindset of employees and management at nuclear plants, promoting safety as an organizational value.
Regulatory Compliance: Refers to adherence to government regulations and standards as applicable to nuclear plants, ensuring that safety measures and practices are in place and up-to-date.
"The prevention and detection of and response to, theft, sabotage, unauthorized access, illegal transfer or other malicious acts involving nuclear materials, other radioactive substances or their associated facilities."
"Nuclear power plants and all other nuclear facilities, the transportation of nuclear materials, and the use and storage of nuclear materials for medical, power, industry, and military uses."
"Yes, the nuclear power industry has improved the safety and performance of reactors."
"No, a perfect safety cannot be guaranteed."
"Human errors and external events that have a greater impact than anticipated."
"The designers of reactors at Fukushima in Japan did not anticipate that a tsunami generated by an earthquake would disable the backup systems which were supposed to stabilize the reactor after the earthquake."
"Terrorist attacks, war, insider sabotage, and cyberattacks."
"Agencies different from those that oversee civilian safety."
"For various reasons, including secrecy."
"Terrorist groups acquiring nuclear bomb-making material."
"The prevention and detection of and response to, theft, sabotage, unauthorized access, illegal transfer or other malicious acts involving nuclear materials, other radioactive substances or their associated facilities."
"Nuclear power plants and all other nuclear facilities, the transportation of nuclear materials, and the use and storage of nuclear materials for medical, power, industry, and military uses."
"The nuclear power industry has improved the safety and performance of reactors."
"No, a perfect safety cannot be guaranteed."
"Human errors and unexpected external events with significant impacts."
"The designers of reactors at Fukushima in Japan did not anticipate that a tsunami generated by an earthquake would disable the backup systems which were supposed to stabilize the reactor after the earthquake."
"Terrorist attacks, war, insider sabotage, and cyberattacks."
"Agencies different from those overseeing civilian safety."
"There are ongoing concerns about terrorist groups acquiring nuclear bomb-making material."