Safety Assessment Reviews
These reviews, initiated in 1989, provide advice on selected safety assessment aspects of nuclear power plants and research reactors, as appropriate:
- International Probabilistic Safety Assessment Review Team (IPSART)
- Review of Accident Management Programmes (RAMP)
- Safety Analysis Review (SAR)
For further information please contact Mamdouh El-Shanawany.
IPSART
International Probabilistic Safety Assessment Review Team - IPSART
The IPSART service organizes peer reviews for probabilistic safety assessments (PSAs) performed in Member States to improve the quality of probabilistic safety analyses and to provide for technology transfer among the Member States; the IPSART team assists Member States in the application of PSA results and methods.
Scope of review:
- Organization of management
- Methods and data
- External hazards
- Level 1 and 2 analysis
- Interpolation of results
- Quality assurance and documentation
- PSA applications.
RAMP
Review of Accident Management Programmes - RAMP
The RAMP service provides advice and assistance at the utility/NPP level for effective plant specific Accident Management Programme (AMP) preparation, development and implementation.
Three options are available to Member States:
- Seminar on Accident Management, to include: plant behaviour during accidents; severe accident phenomenology; principles of accident management; approaches and their features; development phases and tasks
- Review of Safety Analysis for Accident Management, to include: selection of accident sequences; selection of analytical tools; analysis of accidents without operator actions; analysis of preventive and mitigative accident management measures; quality assurance in accident analysis
- Review of Accident Management Programme, to include: selection and definition of AMP; safety analysis for AMP; assessment of plant vulnerabilities; development of strategies; evaluation of equipment performance; development of procedures and guidelines; verification and validation of procedures and guidelines; integration between AMP and emergency plans; staffing and qualification; training needs; AMP revisions.
Safety Analysis Review Service
The main thrust of this service is to aid Member States in implementing the IAEA requirements, safety guides and standards to ensure consistent and uniform assessment of safety.
A Safety Analysis Review service will focus on such items as the general adherence of the safety analysis to governing safety guides and criteria, analysis methodologies, and control procedures for the Preliminary and Final Safety Analysis Report.
The following topics are included:
- Reactor core fuel behaviour and reload analysis
- Defence in-depth concept
- Probabilistic safety assessment
- Design basis accidents analysis
- Beyond design basis analysis
