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Safety Research Needs for Russian-Designed Reactors (1998)

Auteur	NEA
Datum	maart 1998
Classificatie	6.01.3.40/15 (VEILIGHEID - REACTOREN - OOSTEUROPEES ALGEMEEN)
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1. INTRODUCTION

Report Background

This is the Report of the OECD Support Group on Safety Research Needs for 
Russian-Designed Reactors. The Report is the result of the decision of the 
Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations (CSNI) to perform a detailed 
study of the safety research needs for VVER and RBMK reactors. The CSNI made 
this decision in support of the broad-based NEA policy of assisting both the Central 
and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) and the Newly Independent States (NIS) 
of the former Soviet Union in planning and executing safety research programmes 
with a view to building up know-how and capabilities in safety technology 
pertaining to their nuclear power plants. The Support Group (Annex 1), which is 
comprised of experts from OECD (1) countries and from Russia, combines the 
experience of the participating OECD countries with the Russian knowledge of 
their technology and plants. The findings, therefore, have a broad base in nuclear 
safety and safety research. The Support Group, under the chairmanship of Dr. Eric 
S. Beckjord, met on three occasions: in Paris, July 1995; in Moscow, May 1996; 
and in Paris, July 1996.

The Report is the third study of safety research sponsored by CSNI. In 1985, 
CSNI reviewed safety research programmes underway in its member countries. 
Subsequently, as a result of changes in the safety research environment and 
increasing need for international co-operation, it established the Senior Group 
of Experts on Reactor Safety Research (SESAR) to review safety research within 
OECD countries and to set down their views on likely safety research needs and 
priorities. [1] SESAR focused on safety research within OECD countries, and did 
not consider programmes of countries outside OECD. Nevertheless, because of the 
pertinence of many of its findings to the new study, SESAR is an excellent point 
of departure for the this Report.

When the OECD Support Group undertook this study, the members were aware of the 
concurrent EU, CEEC and CIS study [2,3] aimed at defining important safety research 
projects for Russian-designed reactors to be funded by the European Commission. 
This study focuses on research needs rather than specific projects. Although the 
two studies have a different focus, the aim, from the beginning, was to produce a 
complementary Report that avoided duplication.

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