SPI: Evaluation of alternative approaches for assessment of safety performance indicators for nuclear power plants

• Forschungsstelle: EU FRP
• Projektnummer: 01.0032-2
• Projekttitel Englisch: SPI: Evaluation of alternative approaches for assessment of safety performance indicators for nuclear power plants

Schlüsselwörter (Englisch)

Safety performance indicators; risk; safety culture

Alternative Projektnummern (Englisch)

EU project number: FIKR-CT2001-00139

Forschungsprogramme (Englisch)

EU-programme: 5. Frame Research Programme - 5.5.2 Nuclear fission

Kurzbeschreibung (Englisch)

See abstract

Weitere Hinweise und Angaben (Englisch)

Full name of research-institution/enterprise:
ERI Consulting, Khatib, Attenhofer & Co.

Partner und Internationale Organisationen (Englisch)

Coordinator: Gesellschaft für Anlagen- u. Reaktorsicherheit (D)

Abstract (Englisch)

This Concerted Action (CA) project is being conducted under the sponsorship of the European Commission, Directorate General XI, and it is coordinated by GRS (and involves the following partners: UK Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, Swiss Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (HSK), Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate (SKI), Hungarian Electric Power Research Institute (VEIKI), Spanish Consejo de Seguridad Nuclear (CSN), French Institute de Radioprotection et de Surete Nucleaire (IRSN), Nuclear Regulatory Authority of Slovakia (UJD), ERI Consulting & Co., SwedPower AB, Swiss Nordostschweizerische Kraftwerke (NOK)). The project elements include:

1. Review the state-of-the art and existing approaches to collection and reporting of safety Performance Indicators (PIs).

2. Identification of strengths and deficiencies of the existing practices in various countries.

3. Identification of best practices relative to the needs of the regulators and the utility organizations.

4. Formulatation the relationship between safety inspection and performance monitoring, as manifested by the information obtained from PIs.

5. Identification of future research needs as related to incorporation of the risk impact of organizational aspects on nuclear plant safety performance.

6. Development of a list of candidate methods and recommendations for future development and implementation guidelines.

Datenbankreferenzen (Englisch)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
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Swiss Project-Number: 01.0032-2