Operational Safety and Experience Feedback
The main objective of the Operational Safety Section is to assist Member States in enhancing the operational safety of nuclear power plants. This is achieved through the use and development of the IAEA Safety Standards and the promotion of continuous self assessment of nuclear power plants through operational safety assessment review
team (OSART) and peer review of operational safety performance (PROSPER) and assistance activities based on IAEA Safety Standards.
The information disseminated to Member States includes good practices of nuclear installations plus model insights from the industry.
- Enhancing the operational safety performance of nuclear power plants
- Enhancing the sharing and use of international experience
- Supporting Member States in effective leadership, safety management and safety culture
- Engineering support for design, operation, maintenance, and plant life management for safe long term operation
For further information please contact Miroslav Lipar.
Enhancing the operational safety performance
To ensure that Member States possess the capabilities to manage and enhance the level of nuclear safety of their nuclear power plants through the development and application of the Agency Safety Standards and Operational Safety Review Services (OSART).
Related Service: OSART
Related information:
- OSART Brochure: English, French, Russian, Spanish
- OSART Guidelines
- OSART Good Practices
- OSART mission results (OSMIR)
Enhancing the sharing and use of international experience
To confirm and enhance, wherever necessary, the effective use of national and international operating experience feedback; to achieve a high level of self-assessment capabilities in operational safety for all Member States.
Related Service: OSART, PROSPER, IRS
Related information:
- PROSPER Guidelines
- Web Based Incident Reporting System (WB IRS)
- IRS leaflet
- IAEA Safety Standards Series Safety Guide No. NS-G-2.11 A System for the Feedback of Experience from Events in Nuclear Installations
- NPP Operating Experiences 1996 - 1999
- NPP Operating Experiences 1999 - 2002
- NPP Operating Experiences 2002 - 2005
Supporting Member States in effective leadership, safety management and safety culture
To enhance Member States capabilities in safety by promoting an integrated approach to safety focusing on management systems, effective leadership and safety culture.
Related Service: Safety Culture Assessment Review Team (SCART)
- SCART Brochure
- SCART Guidelines
- IAEA Bulletin 50-1 September 2008, “The Mindset of Nuclear Safety”
Engineering support for design, operation, maintenance, and plant life management for safe long term operation
To assist Member States in ensuring safe long term operation of nuclear power plants including ageing management. To develop related safety standards and promote and assist in their application by Member States through safety review services. To exchange experience from periodic safety review, plant relicensing, implementation of ageing management programmes as well as disseminate information on good practices among Member States.
Related Service: SALTO Peer Review Service
Related information:
- IAEA Safety Standards Series Safety Guide No. NS-G-2.12 Ageing management for Nuclear Power Plants
- IAEA Safety Report Series No 57 Safe Long Term Operation of Nuclear Power Plants
- IAEA Services Series No 17 SALTO Guidelines – Guidelines for peer review of long term operation and ageing management of Nuclear Power Plants
- IAEA EBP – Final Report of Extrabudgetary Programme on Safety Aspects of Long Term Operation of Water Moderated Reactors (SALTO)
