International Atomic Energy Agency

Regional Workshop on Advanced Probabilistic Safety Analysis: Level 1 and Level 2 PSA

PROSPECTUS

Project Number Title: / RER/9/125 - Strengthening Nuclear Safety Assessment Capabilities Through the Use of the Safety Assessment, Education and Training (SAET) Programme
Place (City, Country): / Trieste, Italy
Dates: / 1–12 October 2012
Deadline forNominations: / 16 August2012
Organizers: / The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in collaboration with the European Commission.
Host CountryOrganizer: / Mrs. Zina Makkawi
Hosted Event Coordinator
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Strada Costiera 11
34151 Trieste
Italy
Tel: 0039 40 2240507
Fax: 0039 40 224163
E-mail:
Language: / English
Purpose: / The workshop is intended to provide the advanced professional knowledge necessary to conduct Level-1 and Level-2 probabilistic safety assessments (PSA) of new or operating nuclear power plants. Emphasis is placed on the basic concepts of risk, general methodological aspects of probabilistic safety assessments techniques, advanced methods being developed following international research activities and taking into account lessons learned from Fukushima accident. The issue of PSA quality enabling the use of PSA results in Integrated Risk Informed Decision Making process will be also considered during the workshop. The workshop will also be a forum for the discussion on different advanced and specific issues of Level-1 and Level-2 PSA and will help elaborate common practice in their resolution.
Expected Output(s): / Knowledge transferred from experts to participants and shared among participants on the subjects of the course. Participants will befamiliarized with the best practice in the development of Level-1 and Level-2 PSA, recent research and developments and methodological achievements as well as unresolved problems in particular raised after the Fukishima accident.
Scope and
Nature: / The workshop is divided into 2 major parts: (1) Level-1 PSA; (2) Level-2 PSA Throughout the workshop there will be presentations prepared by international experts and IAEA staff on advanced methods and experience for Level-1 and Level-2 PSA and lessons learned for PSA from Fukushima accident.
Participants are expected to actively participate and contribute with their national experience in the topics to be discussed in the workshop. The Secretariat will request that participants prepare national presentations in order to ensure a uniform approach.
Background Information: / The implementation of TC project RER/9/125is primarily aimed to assist participating countries in reinforcing the skills and knowledge necessary to conduct successful safety assessments for design, licensing, construction and operation of nuclear power plants.
To support and enhance their national safety regulatory infrastructures, regulatory bodies, operators and Technical Support Organisations (TSOs) are in need of a systematic post-graduate education and training programme specifically focussed on essential knowledge and advanced practical applications of deterministic and probabilistic safety assessment based on sound safety principles. The Safety Assessment Education and Training Programme takes its roots from the IAEA Safety Standards that are based on international best practices.
At present, regulatory bodies of a number of countries of the region have not develop a full infrastructure to perform educated and informed decisions for safety assessment review relying to a varying extent on safety assessments provided by vendors, and possible support from regulatory authorities of supplier countries.
Participation: / The workshop is open to 20 participants.
The target countries are:Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, CzechRepublic, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russian Federation, SlovakRepublic, Slovenia, Turkey andUkraine.
Priority will be given to candidates from countries that are currently operating nuclear power or have decided to start a nuclear power programme and are already developing a nuclear safety infrastructure for nuclear power.
Participants’ Qualifications: / The workshop participants are expected to be PSA professionals currently employed by utility organizations, plant operating organizations, technical support organizations, or regulatory bodies deeply involved in the development of PSA models and/or use of PSA results.
Nomination Procedure: / Nominations should be submitted to the IAEA online through the Technical Cooperation Department’s InTouch system ( Should this not be possible, nominations may be submitted on the standard IAEA Application Form for Meeting/Workshop (available on the IAEA website: Completed forms should be endorsed by relevant national authorities and returned to the Agency through the official channels, i.e. the designated National Liaison Office for IAEA Matters.
The completed nomination forms should be sent to the Programme Management Officer for this project, Mr Pavel Yurkin, through IAEA Official Fax (+43-1-26007) or E-Mail (), not later than 16August 2012. Nominations received after this date or which have not been routed through the established official channels cannot be considered.
Administrative and Financial Arrangements: / Nominating Governments will be informed in due course of the names of the candidates who have been selected and will, at that time, be given full details of the procedures to be followed with regard to administrative and financial matters.
Selected participants from countries eligible to receive technical assistance will be provided with a round trip economy class air ticket from their home countries to Trieste, Italy, and aDaily Subsistence Allowance (DSA) at the prevailing UN Rate. Shipment of accumulated workshop materials to the participants' home countries is not the responsibility of the IAEA.
The organizers of the workshop do not accept liability for the payment of any cost or compensation that may arise from damage to or loss of personal property, or from illness, injury, disability or death of a participant while he/she is travelling to and from or attending the training course, and it is clearly understood that each Government, in nominating participants, undertakes responsibility for such coverage. Governments would be well advised to take out insurance against these risks.

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