IAEA 52 nd General Conference Senior Regulators’ Meeting 3 October, 2008 HISTORY AND CURRENT...

IAEA 52nd General Conference

Senior Regulators’ Meeting3 October, 2008

HISTORY AND CURRENT STATUS OFTHE IAEA SAFETY STANDARDS

K. Mrabit Head, Safety and Security Coordination Section

Department of Nuclear Safety and Security

SRM-K.Mrabit Oct 2008 2

History of IAEA Safety Standards History of IAEA Safety Standards

Current status of IAEA Safety Current status of IAEA Safety

StandardsStandards

Vision and strategies for IAEA Vision and strategies for IAEA

Safety StandardsSafety Standards

Contents


History of IAEA Safety

Standards


Safety Functions

IAEA Safety Functions

(Article III.A.6)

“To establish or adopt… [in consultation …]

standards of safety for protection of health & minimization of danger to life and property”

“…and to provide

for the application of these

standards…”

Facilitate andservice international

conventions and other undertakings


1958

Safe

Han

dlin

g

of R

adio

isot

opes

1961

Safe

Tra

nspo

rt

of R

adio

activ

e

Mat

eria

l

1962

BSS

for

Rad

iatio

n Pr

otec

tion

SS No. 15

Rad

ioac

tive

Was

te

Dis

posa

l int

o th

e

Gro

und

1965

History


History (cont’d)

1958 - 1973

• Bottom-up approachBottom-up approach

• Collection of experience in safety Collection of experience in safety practices and guides practices and guides

• Identification of the requirementsIdentification of the requirements


Bas

ic S

afet

y

Stan

dard

s

1996

NU

SSPr

ogra

mm

e

1974

SS No. 15

1988

RA

DW

ASS

Prog

ram

me

History (cont’d)


History (cont’d)

1974 - 1996

• Four structured programmesFour structured programmes

• Bottom-up approachBottom-up approach

• Issuance of three Safety Issuance of three Safety FundamentalsFundamentals


CSS COMMISSION ON

SAFETY STANDARDS

NUSSC RASSC WASSC TRANSSC

1996

Com

mis

sion

and

Com

mitt

ees

2006

Uni

fied

Safe

ty

Fund

amen

tals

History (cont’d)

1996

Nuc

lear

Saf

ety

Dep

artm

ent


History (cont’d)

1996 - 2008● 1996 - Establishment of the Department of NS:

Harmonized processes involving the Commission and the four Committees; and Preparation of an overall structure of Safety Standards.

● 2006 - Unified Safety Fundamentals: beginning of a top-down approach

• 2008 - Roadmap on the long term structure and format of SR approved by CSS


Current Status of IAEA Safety

Standards


Status of the IAEA Safety Standards

Safety Standards are:

• Non binding on Member States but may be adopted by them

• Binding for IAEA’s own activities

• Binding on States in relation to operations assisted by the IAEA or States wishing to enter into project agreements with IAEA


Safety Standards Categories

Safety GuidesSafety Guides

Safety RequirementsSafety Requirements

Safety FundamentalsSafety Fundamentals


Safety Standards Categories (Cont’d)

I A E A S a f e t y S t a n d a r d s

F u n d a m e n t a l

S a f e t y P r i n c i p l e s

S a f e t y F u n d a m e n t a l s

f o r p r o t e c t i n g p e o p l e a n d t h e e n v i r o n m e n t


R e g u l a t i o n s f o r t h e

S a f e T r a n s p o r t o f

R a d i o a c t i v e M a t e r i a l

2 0 0 5 E d i t i o n

S a f e t y R e q u i r e m e n t s

N o . T S - R - 1



D e s i g n o f t h e

R e a c t o r C o r e f o r

N u c l e a r P o w e r P l a n t s

S a f e t y G u i d e

N o . N S - G - 1 . 1 2


Fundamental safety objective and principles for protecting people and environment

Requirements that must met to ensure protection of people and environment –’shall’

Recommended ways of meeting the requirements

SRM-K.Mrabit Oct 2008

Commissionon Safety Standards

(CSS)

Nuclear Safety Standards

Committee(NUSSC)

Radiation Safety StandardsCommittee(RASSC)

Waste Safety StandardsCommittee(WASSC)

Transport Safety

StandardsCommittee(TRANSSC)

Commission & CommitteesCommission & Committees

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Commission on Safety Standards

• Standing body of senior government officials holding national responsibilities for establishing standards and other regulatory documents relevant to nuclear, radiation, transport and waste safety

• Overview role with regard to the Agency’s safety standards and provides advice to the Director General on the overall programme on regulatory aspects of safety


Terms of Reference of theCommission on Safety Standards

The functions of the CSS are:• To provide guidance on the

approach and strategy for establishing the Agency’s SSs, particularly in order to ensure coherence and consistency between them;

• To resolve issues referred to it by the committees;


Terms of Reference of theCommission on Safety Standards (Cont’d)

The functions of the CSS are (Cont’d) :

• To endorse the texts of the SF & SRs for the BoG approval and SGs to be issued under the authority of the DG; and

• To provide general advice and guidance on SSs issues, relevant regulatory issues and SSs and related programmes, including those for promoting the worldwide application of the standards.


Safety Standards Committees

• Standing bodies of senior experts, established by the DDG-NS

• They advise the DDG-NS on the overall programme for the development, review and revision of standards


• To advise on the approach to the development of SSs, and to advise on priorities;

• To review proposals and to approve the DPPs prior to their submission to the CSS;

• To review draft SSs, considering the value of each draft standard and the needs of users of the standards;

• To approve the text of draft SSs prior to their submission to Member States for comments and again prior to their submission to the CSS;

Terms of Reference of theSafety Standards Committees


Process Flow for the Development of IAEA Safety Standards

Outline and work planPrepared by the Secretariat

Review by the committees and Commission on Safety Standards

Drafting or revising of safety standard

by the Secretariat and consultants

Reviewby the safety

standards committee(s)

Endorsementby Commission on Safety Standards

MemberStates

Approval by the IAEA’s Director General or BoG

• SF and SRs approved by BoG

• SGs approved by DG


Current Status of the Safety Standards

• Since the establishment of the Safety Standards Series• Safety Fundamentals issued in 2006• Safety Requirements issued from 1996 to 2008 (the last two still to be

issued)• In total 86 safety standards published

• Updated “Status of Safety Standards” on the web site http://www-ns.iaea.org/standards/status.pdf

• Includes hyperlinks to the published safety standards in official languages

• Includes general information and a link to the IAEA Safety Glossary

http://www-ns.iaea.org/standards/status.pdf


The Global Nuclear Safety Regime

International Legal InstrumentsConventions and Codes of Conduct

IAEA

Safety

Standards

IAEA Safety

Reviews and

ServicesGlobal Knowledge

Network

Global Experts’ Community

National and Regional Safety Infrastructure

Regulation OperationResearch and Education


Provisions for the applicationof standards

International Mechanismsfor Promoting Capacity Building

ProvidingTECHNICAL

ASSISTANCE

Rendering SAFETY

SERVICES

Promoting Networking, KM

and R&D

PromotingEDUCATION & TRAINING

FosteringINFORMATION

EXCHANGE


Application of Safety Standards (Cont’d)

A crucial element now is to enhance the effectiveness & efficiency of the feedback mechanisms in place to collect and use feedback from the application of the SSs


Application of Safety Standards (Cont’d)

Experience in the use by Member States

Of the IAEA Safety Standards

Will be presented by Mr. Lacoste

Chairman of

The Commission on Safety Standards


Vision and Strategies for

IAEA SSs


Vision for the IAEA Safety Standards

Vision• Complete, consistent, coherent, integrated and user-

friendly safety series with a manageable number of publications

• Sustainable continuous improvement system through effective feedback from application of SSs

• Global Reference used worldwide by Member States to deliver a harmonized high level of safety for protecting people and the environment from the harmful effects of ionizing radiation


Commission of Eminent Persons

• National regulators should continue to strengthen and harmonize their safety standards … in parallel, and in close consultation with national regulators, the IAEA should continue to consolidate and promote global nuclear safety standards


Commission of Eminent Persons (Cont’d)

• The IAEA should expand its highly successful programme of international safety reviews and encourage peer reviews of national regulators

• These safety reviews should also be an integral feature of the national reports of the parties to the nuclear safety conventions


Commission of Eminent Persons (Cont’d)

• …over time, states should enter into binding agreements to adhere to effective safety standards & to be subject to international peer reviews…


Strategies

• Clear categories of safety standards consistent with Member States’ needs and use

• Clear, logical and integrated structure based on a unified philosophy of safety

• Clear scope in terms of areas covered and level of detail in each category


Strategies (Cont’d)

• Consensus at the highest level on what constitutes a high level of safety and the related best international practices

• User - friendliness

• Manageable number of safety standards


Strategies (Cont’d)

• Transparency and rigour of the process

• Effective feedback mechanisms

• Harmonized terminology

• Effective knowledge management

• Promotion of the safety standards

Vol.1 Governmental andRegulatory Framework

Vol.2 Leadership and Managementfor Safety

Vol.4 Safety Assessment

Vol.5 Predisposal Managementof Radioactive Waste

Vol.6 Decommissioning andTermination of Activities

Vol.7 Emergency Preparednessand Response

B. Design of Nuclear Power Plants

Specific Safety RequirementsGeneral Safety Requirements

Vol.3 Radiation Protection and Safety of Radiation Sources

1. Site Evaluation forNuclear Installations

3. Safety of Research Reactors

4. Safety of Nuclear FuelCycle Facilities

5. Safety of Radioactive WasteDisposal Facilities

Structure of the Long Term Set of Safety Requirements

6. Safe Transport ofRadioactive Material

2. Safety of Nuclear Power Plants

2.1 Design and Construction2.2 Commissioning and Operation


What’s next?

Are these strategies and conditions sufficient to envisage the worldwide de facto acceptance and application of the IAEA Safety Standards ?

Suggestions for further improvement

will be highly appreciated


…Thank you for your attention

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