Four ETSON guides on nuclear safety assessment methods published

ETSON publishes four reports: a general Safety Assessment Guide and three Technical Safety Assessment Guides.

Safety Assessment Guide (SAG) SAG provides recommendation to expertise bodies on reviewing and assessing the safety questions raised in nuclear activities. The goal of this SAG is to set down the harmonized principles applied in ETSON organisations to ensure that, whatever the technical analysis could be, safety assessments are performed by each ETSON member according to the same lines and can therefore be used with the same confidence by the people concerned. In this way, ETSON contributes to the promotion of a harmonization of nuclear safety practices.

Technical Safety Assessment Guides (TSAG).

TSAG are complementary guides dedicated to specific issues, in the areas of ETSON working groups. The available TSAG series:

• TSAG Event review and precursor analysis

• TSAG Deterministic severe accidents analysis

• TSAG Human and organisational factors in nuclear facilities design and modification processes.