Translation of "Directeur - Analyse de la sûreté nucléaire " (French → English) :

28. Recognises the importance of implementing the recommendations in close cooperation with nuclear safety authorities, while assessing the extent to which the scope of the periodic safety review should be extended; reiterates the need for close crossborder cooperation and exchange of best practice on these matters, as well as for the coordination of information exchange; believes that, at the same time, crossborder safety and supervision guarantees must be ensured; considers that, in this respect, people living within 50 km of an NPP must be taken into account, and that where a majority of inhabitants in a neighbouring Member State a ...[+++]re affected, the responsible authority of that Member State must be involved in all decisions too;

22. Considers that as long as the existing nuclear power plants remain in operation while others are being constructed, the level of nuclear safety in the EU, as well as in neighbouring third countries, must reflect as a main priority the highest safety and security practices and standards existing worldwide; insists on the need to ensure that those concerns are reflected along the entire life cycle of NPPs, thus including their eventual decommissioning; stresses above all that the costs incurred across their life cycle (choice of location, design, construction, activation, operation and decommissioning) should be taken into account in ...[+++] assessing the safety criteria of nuclear power plants; recalls that cost and risk analyses have a major role to play regarding the continued operation of plants;

24. Acknowledges that, according to the Commission communication and the ENSREG peer‑review report, the stress test exercise has demonstrated the positive contribution of periodic safety reviews as an efficient tool for maintaining and improving the safety and robustness of NPPs; notes, for example, ENSREG’s view that the re-evaluation of natural hazards risks and relevant plant provisions should be repeated at least every 5 or 10 years; recommends that periodic reviews should be based on common safety standards and that the revision of the legal framework on nuclear safety should include corresponding provisions;

In 2008, the European Commission launched and published a study entitled Nuclear Safety in a Situation of Fading Nuclear Experience with the aim of analysing the availability of nuclear safety staff.

In 2008, the European Commission launched and published a study entitled Nuclear Safety in a Situation of Fading Nuclear Experience with the aim of analysing the availability of nuclear safety staff.

The study came up with a number of recommendations, incl. a better cooperation between key players and universities as well as operators and regulatory bodies in order to mutually optimise their training programmes, a better reporting on the staff situation under the Convention on Nuclear Safety, an increased international and bilateral information exchange on operating experience, the establishment of a post graduate nuclear academy capable to educate graduated engineers in Europe-wide valid principles of nuclear safety, and finally a regular screening of the staff situation in the EU.