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The Nuclear Safety Account (1994)

AuthorEBRD, NSA
DateDecember 1994
Classification 6.01.3.45/16 (NUCLEAR SAFETY - REACTORS - "ASSISTANCE" TO...(EBRD/NSA/TACIS/PHARE ETC.))
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From the publication:

International Initiative to help Improve nuclear safety

At their Munich Summit (6-8 July 1992), the G-7 heads of state and government 
offered the countries of central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union a 
multilateral programme of action to improve safety in their nuclear power plants.

By 1992, a considerable amount of work had already been done to improve the 
safety of Soviet-designed nuclear reactors by the countries concerned, sometimes 
in cooperation with Western experts. The International Atomic Energy Agency 
(IAEA) had paved the way to mutually agreed assessments of safety problems for 
different types of reactors. The European Union and a number of bilateral donors 
were providing technical assistance to improve operational safety, and were 
cooperating with the still fledgling nuclear safety authorities.

However, these efforts appeared to be insufficient to enable countries that operate 
Soviet-designed reactors to bridge the gap between international safety practices 
and expectations, and the existing level of design, maintenance or operation of 
their nuclear power plants. For this reason, the G-7 proposed a multilateral 
programme of action.

This was to comprise immediate measures for: operational safety improvements; 
near-term technical safety improvements to plants, based on safety assessments; 
and enhancement of regulatory regimes. It was also to create the basis for longer-
term safety improvements by considering the scope for replacing less safe plants 
by the development of alternative energy sources and the more efficient use of 
energy, and by upgrading plants of more recent design.

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