Senior Regulators Meeting

The Senior Regulators Meeting is an annual event organized by the Agency during the General Conference. It is a forum for the exchange of information on current regulatory issues and trends among senior government officials involved in regulatory matters in the fields of nuclear, radiation, transport and radioactive waste safety and security.

GENERAL CONFERENCE: SENIOR REGULATORS' MEETING Thursday, 20 September 2007 IAEA Board Room (C04) Programme and Presentations
09:00–09:15	Opening Remarks – Mr. T. Taniguchi DDG-NS
09:15-09:45 09:45-10:15	Chairperson: A. Suzuki, Japan Session I: Integrated Regulatory Review Service. Missions in 2006 and 2007 Presentation of the Integrated Regulatory Review Service (international exchange of regulatory practices among senior regulators) – G. Caruso, K. Mrabit, IAEA Recent experience in France – J.-C. Niel, France
10:15-10:45	Coffee Break
10:45-12:10	Session II: Panel Discussion on the feedback from the IRRS Missions Keynote address: Australia, Japan, UK The Panel will discuss the feedback from the recent IRRS missions to the IAEA Safety Standards and to other related publications and suggest improvements of the IRRS service for future missions Panelists: J.-C. Niel, France; J. Loy, Australia; A. Fukushima, Japan; M. Weightman, UK; T. Taniguchi, IAEA
12:10–14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:00 15:00 – 15:30	Session III: Regulatory Challenges Report on the earthquake impact to Kashiwazaki-Kariwa NPP – A. Fukushima, Japan Enhancing Operational Experience Feedback: Regulatory control during outages and refueling – A. Fukushima, Japan.
15:30 – 15:50	Coffee Break
15:50-16:50 16:50	Regulatory Control of Medical Applications – David Krembel, France Chair’s Summary

Following the Senior Regulators’ Meeting was a special presentation given by Commissioner Antonio Colino, Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear of Spain on Monitoring Scrap Metal for Radioactive Contamination. Presentation