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Safety Assessment Principles for Nuclear Facilities. (2006)
| Author | HSE |
| Date | 2006 |
| Classification | 6.01.3.00/54 (NUCLEAR SAFETY - GENERAL) |
| Front | 
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From the publication:
Safety assessment principles for nuclear facilities INTRODUCTION The purpose of the Safety Assessment Principles (SAPs) 1 The SAPs apply to the assessment of safety cases for nuclear facilities that may be operated by potential licensees, existing licensees, or other dutyholders. The term 'safety case' is used throughout this document to encompass the totality of a licensee's (or dutyholder's) documentation to demonstrate high standards of nuclear safety and radioactive waste management, and any subset of this documentation that is submitted to Her Majesty's Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII). 2 The principles presented in this document relate only to nuclear safety and radioactive waste management. Other conventional hazards are excluded, except where they have a direct effect on nuclear safety or radioactive waste management. The use of the word 'safety' within the document should therefore be interpreted accordingly. 3 The SAPs provide inspectors with a framework for making consistent regulatory judgements on nuclear safety cases. The principles are supported by Technical Assessment Guides (TAGs), and other guidance, to further assist decision making by the nuclear safety regulatory process (see the HSE website). The SAPs also provide nuclear site dutyholders with information on the regulatory principles against which their safety provisions will be judged. However, they are not intended or sufficient to be used as design or operational standards, reflecting the non-prescriptive nature of the UK's nuclear regulatory system. In most cases the SAPs are guidance to inspectors, but where guidance refers to legal requirements they can be mandatory depending on the circumstances.
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