12 August 2009
From 23-27 November 2009, the project RER/9/095 Strengthening Safety Assessment Capabilities, will hold a Regional Workshop on Essential Safety Assessment Knowledge: An Introduction to DSA and to PSA
The Safety Assessment Education and Training Programme (SAET) curriculum outlines the knowledge needed for
understanding the basis for and the safety requirements associated with the design and operation of nuclear facilities and
it identifies specialized knowledge necessary for performance of safety analyses which will demonstrate compliance with those requirements. The Workshop in Essential Safety Assessment Knowledge will provide an introduction to deterministic and probabilistic safety analyses for professionals in countries considering new nuclear power programmes or expanding their established NPP programmes.
PURPOSE OF THE WORKSHOP:
The main emphasis of the SAET series of workshops lies in providing students with a good understanding and practical
knowledge of:
• The fundamental principles which underlie nuclear safety;
• The safety requirements which ensure that those principles
are met;
• The principles of safety analysis techniques used to
demonstrate compliance;
• Practical experience of applying those techniques and of
using the related computer codes and models employed to
perform the analyses;
• Practical experience of the activities required to verify and
validate analyses.
The workshop will include essential knowledge elements, presentations and discussions on deterministic and probabilistic
safety analyses.
Discussions on deterministic safety analysis (DSA) will focus on the scope of deterministic analysis; an overview of codes used in safety analysis, fundamentals of modelling, and will address the conservative vs. best estimate analysis. Discussions and presentations on probabilistic safety analysis (PSA) will focus on basic concepts, principles of system modelling and analysis, and an introduction to PSA levels 1 through 3. This workshop is intended for professionals from countries developing new, or expanding existing nuclear power programmes. This course is tailored for professionals working at regulatory authorities, TSOs and in plant operations, seeking to enhance their knowledge of safety assessment.
Based on the workshop presentations and group discussions areas where further international efforts are needed to facilitate the implementation of selected techniques and enhance DSA and PSA practices in the region will be identified.
Participants will be expected to present their national experiences on the topics for the workshop, outlined in the attached syllabus.
QUALIFICATIONS: The participants should be professional staff members of the regulatory authorities, utilities and design or technical support organizations from the region. They should have a basic level of experience in safety assessment.
NATURE OF THE WORKSHOP: The workshop will consist of presentations and discussions. All participating countries are expected to present their national experience/approach related to event investigation analyses.
LOCATION: The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
MORE INFORMATION: see attached Prospectus
