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EU STRESS TESTS

EU PEER REVIEW OF NATIONAL REPORTS

January 20, 2012

The EU “stress tests” on the operating Nuclear Power Plants (NPP) in 16 EU Member States are defined as a ‘’targeted reassessment’’ of the safety margins of the EU NPP in the light of the events which occurred at Fukushima: extreme natural events challenging the plant safety functions and leading to a severe accident.

This reassessment consists:

· In an evaluation of the response of a NPP when facing a set of extreme situations , and

· In a verification of the preventive and mitigative measures chosen following a defense in depth logic: initiating events, consequential loss of safety functions, severe accident management.

The activity and reporting of Stress Tests are carried out in accordance with the specifications and the principles for ‘’openness and transparency" as adopted by ENSREG in May 2011.

The national regulatory bodies of 16 EU Member States plus Switzerland and Ukraine have independently reviewed the stress tests report elaborated by the operators and prepared the National Reports for the EU Peer Review. These reports have been made publicly available on the ENSREG website (www.ensreg.com) by very beginning of 2012.

Three main TOPICS are identified as deserving the focus of the re-assessment, in the light of the events that occurred at Fukushima, including combination of initiating events and failures:

Topic 1 - Initiating Events (earthquakes, flooding and weather conditions)

Topic 2 -Loss of Safety Function (Loss of electrical power or heat sink and combination of both)

Topic 3 -Severe Accident Management (organization and arrangements to manage SA scenarios)

The EU Peer Review of National Reports is in progress and the EU Peer Review Report will be issued at the end of April 2012.

ITER-Consult preliminary considerations on the content of the National Reports

A first insight into the National Reports has given evidence of the following general considerations:

The content of the National Reports, commonly based on the ENSREG Technical Specifications, shows differences from one country to another in terms of:

- NPP basic design provisions, level of implementation of defense in depth and capacity of implemented safety measures;

- Approach to perform the required re-assessment;

- Ways to report about the results of re-assessments;

- Evidence of interface between operator (performing the re-assessment) and the regulator (evaluating the results) with indication of Regulator positions;

These differences give space to comparisons, transfer of approaches and insights into proposed technical , organizational and management solutions;

The results of the assessment and the role performed by the Regulators in monitoring, requesting and evaluating the methods, requirements and results confirm, once more, the importance of the ‘’active’’ role, of the ‘’independence’’ and capacity of the Regulator - and its technical support organizations - to ensure effective and ‘’continuous’’ improvement of safety of nuclear facilities.

Specifically on the status and robustness of operating NPPs - as shown by the National Reports - it appears that:

· extreme accident scenarios are taken into consideration on a deterministic basis and NPP response assessed and margins estimated;

· a consistent number of issues of the EU operating NPPs with respect to the considered extreme scenarios have been identified and actions are needed, and planned, to resolve them;

· an improved view of the NPP capacity to respond to extreme external accident scenarios has been investigated and studied;

· an advanced insight into the needed ultimate hardware and organization to manage extreme scenarios has been achieved;

· concepts of ultimate ‘’material’’ (resisting to common mode failure risk for flooding and earthquake) have been elaborated (or going to be) and adopted to increase NPP robustness;

· additional analysis and investigation have been identified as necessary to complete the assessment (and the related improvement measures) also based on issues raised by the national regulators;

Finally it has to be noticed that the process of the ‘’EU stress Tests’’ with the established requirements from ENSREG , represents a substantial step forward on the way of the transparency, which is a significant promoter of the continuous improvement principle.

TSO Forum

Meeting at IAEA Headquarters in Vienna
18–20 January 2012

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ITER-Consult as member of the TSO Forum has participated in the Meeting held at IAEA in Vienna on January 18-20, 2012.

The TSO Forum was established in July 2011 with the objective to:

· encourage open dialogue and sharing of scientific and technical information among TSOs worldwide

· promote coordination and collaboration among the TSOs and contribute to the worldwide harmonization of practices.

· strengthen the role of TSOs and their global coordination and collaboration, including countries in the process of expanding or embarking on a nuclear programme;

· promote coordination and collaboration among the TSOF Member States to foster scientific and technical capacity building including education and training;

· share and mutually learn safety and security experience and communicate lessons learned including feedback on the use of IAEA Safety Standards and security publications.

The elected Chairperson of the TSOF Steering Committee is Mr. Jacques Repussard (Director of IRSN).

ITER-Consult will contribute to the activity of the TSOF by:

- participation in the elaboration of IAEA Safety Guides for TSO activity and requirements

- ensuring coordination with the RCF (Regulator Cooperation Forum)

- promoting capacity building and training and tutoring activity

- collecting lessons learned from Fukushima accident

- contributing to the organization of the TSO conference in China in 2013

The IAEA, as Secretariat of this forum, will facilitate and promote coordination and collaboration of TSOF and Steering Committee activities. The Secretariat will also host and maintain the website (http://gnssn.iaea.org).

The members of the TSO Forum from Italy are: ENEA and ITER-Consult.


ITER-Consult Annual Meeting 2011
December 16, 2011

The ITER-Consult yearly meeting reporting on activities and achievements in 2011 with an indication of future expectations, has taken place on December 16, 2011 in Rome at VILLA EUR - Parco dei Pini - P.le M. Champagnat, 2.

Program & Presentations


ISSC EBP – WA3: Seismic safety Evaluation
Third Review Meeting of the KARISMA Benchmark
December 6-8, 2011 - IAEA Vienna

The third review meeting of the KARISMA Benchmark has taken place in Vienna on December 6 – 8, 2011. The main objective of the 3rd Review Meeting (RM) is to share the results obtained by different team during the phase III of the benchmark exercise, to discuss general lessons learned from benchmark exercise and suggestion for content of TECDOC.

ITER-Consult has presented the results of study for the Phase III of Structural Task related to ‘’Margin Assessment’’, the main difficulties and suggestion for a TECDOC. Attached the Poster summarizing the major aspects of the study during phase III consisting in:

a) Push-over analyses of the general 3D Finite Element Model, applying a uniform distribution of horizontal accelerations. Two boundary conditions have been considered. In the first series of the analysis a fixed base structure model has been used. In the second analysis soil structure interaction effects have been taken into account.

b) Non linear dynamic analysis using a simplified model obtained from the 3D general Finite Element Model through push-over analyses conducted using the first and the second eigenvectors.

c) Consideration on a comprehensive approach to assess margins with respect to ultimate status of Reactor Building (RB) structure and with respect to the loss of the ‘’NPP capacity to bring and maintain the NPP (reactor core and spent fuel) in a safe status". The last being linked with the systems and equipment needed to ensure the main safety functions (criticalities of interfaces between RB structures and systems/components)

ITER Poster Phase III


IAEA – ISSC - EBP Working Group 10.1
“Workshop on Public Communication on Nuclear Safety against External Events” Kashiwazaki 3rd – 4th December, 2011

A Workshop on ‘’Public Communication on Nuclear Safety against External Events’’ has taken place in Japan - Kashiwazaki on December 3-4, 2011 organized by IAEA and hosted by JNES and the cooperative partner NIIT at the JNES Kashiwazaki Seismic Safety Centre in Japan.

The workshop under the co-chairmanship of JNES (Prof. Takada) and ITER-Consult (Mr. Madonna) has seen the participation of IAEA (Mr. Morita), JNES, ITER-Consult, local authorities, representatives from the public and experts from other institutions and Universities.

The objective was to collect the experience of the public communication during the 2007 emergency in Kashiwazaki-Kariwa (Chuetsu-oki Earthquake of July 2007 10.13 am), to present the major issues for public communication both during the overall lifetime of a NF and during the emergency, to discuss the roles and responsibilities of regulators, operators, government and local authorities and transparency requirements.

A preliminary discussion was held on structure and content of a TECDOC to be developed by IAEA with guidelines for the communication to the public.

At the beginning of September 2012 a Workshop on Public Communication, with the participation of representatives of relevant EU stakeholders, highlighting the EU experience and initiatives in progress for effective public communication will be organized in Rome hosted by ITER-Consult.

ISSC EBP Agenda Workshop Kashiwazaki 3-4 Dic.'11




Memorandum of Understanding
ITER-Consult of Italy - NRSC of Armenia
November 7, 2011

A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed on November 7, 2011 between ITER-Consult of Italy and NRSC (Nuclear and Radiation Safety Center) of Armenia for cooperation in the field of nuclear and radiation safety.

The cooperation agreement has the objective to promote co-operation and reciprocal support in national and international activities related to nuclear safety, security and radiation safety of nuclear facilities and related activities.



Draft IAEA Safety Guide DS 429
October 2011

The IAEA Draft Safety Guide DS 429 on ‘’ External Expert Support for the Regulatory Body’’ is in the final phase of the elaboration process. ITER-Consult is contributing to the development in cooperation with the IAEA: the formal issue is expected in 2012.

The objective of this Safety Guide is to provide guidance and recommendations on both: how the nuclear regulatory body should identify and obtain external technical support and how to use it in the internal evaluation and decision making process.

IAEA Draft Safety Guide DS 429



IAEA TSO Forum Membership
October 2011
The IAEA General Conference in September 2011 in Vienna has formally established the TSO Forum dedicated to scientific and technical support for nuclear safety infrastructure development issues. This initiative was fostered since the second IAEA International Conference on TSO which was held in Tokyo from 25 to 29 October 2010.

The recent event at the Fukushima NPP and the subsequent Ministerial Conference at the IAEA in June 2011 further highlighted the need of a TSO Forum. The IAEA, as Secretariat of this forum, will facilitate and promote coordination and collaboration of Member State activities.

The objective of the TSO Forum (TSOF) is to encourage open dialogue, to share scientific and technical information among TSOs worldwide contributing to the harmonization of practices. In particular the TSOF activities will aim at:

Strengthening the role of TSOs and their global coordination and collaboration, including countries in the process of expanding or embarking on a nuclear program;

Enhancing the nuclear and radiation safety and security of nuclear facilities and activities by providing technical and scientific support to regulatory bodies, institutions and governments in order to achieve the highest possible level of safety and security.

ITER-Consult has joined the TSO Forum in October 2011..


SNETP membership
October 5, 2011

The Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform brings together some 100 members from 19 European countries, including all the major nuclear industrial, technical and research players. Formally launched in September 2007, SNE-TP represents a major effort to better coordinate research activities in the area of nuclear fission safety and systems, and to collaborate more effectively in implementing research of strategic importance for Europe.

The 100 European stakeholders belong to: industry, research, academia, technical safety organisations, non-governmental organisations and national representatives.

Four working groups report to the executive committee of the SNETP:

strategic research agenda,

deployment strategy,

education, training and knowledge management and

task force of the European Sustainable Nuclear Industrial Initiative.

ITER-Consult has joined the SNETP in October 2011.

http://www.snetp.eu/



Memorandum of Understanding
ITER-Consult of Italy - SSTC-NRS of Ukraine
July 27, 2011

A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed in July 2011 between ITER-Consult of Italy and SSTC – NRS (State Scientific-Technical Center on Nuclear and Radiation Safety) of Ukraine for cooperation in the field of nuclear and radiation safety.

It has the objective to establish effective cooperation and promote reciprocal support in national and international activities related to nuclear safety, security and radiation safety of nuclear facilities and related activities.




Council Directive 2011/70/Euratom of 19 July 2011

The Council Directive 2011/70/Euratom establishing a Community framework for the responsible and safe management of spent fuel and radioactive waste has been formally issued on July 19, 2011.

This Directive sets out a European Community framework for ensuring responsible and safe management of spent fuel and radioactive waste with a view to preventing both workers and the general public from dangers arising from ionizing radiation. It lays down specific provisions concerning the management of radioactive waste, from generation to disposal. The Directive requires Member States to establish a national legislative, regulatory and organizational framework in this field.

This EU Council Directive follows the previous Council Directive 2009/71/Euratom of June 25, 2009 establishing a Community framework for the nuclear safety of nuclear installations. Both Directives belong to the process to grant to the EU more responsibility for nuclear safety.

Council Directive 2009/71/Euratom (waste and spent fuel) Council Directive 2011/70/Euratom (nuclear safety)


ENSREG 1st Conference
June 2011

The first European Regulatory Conference has been held on 28 and 29 June 2011 in Brussels. It has been organized by the group of the European nuclear safety regulators (ENSREG) with the aim to describe the achievements made during the last ten years in the process to improving nuclear safety in Europe. In that period extensive cooperation between the regulators from the 27 Member States has produced substantial development of common ground and practices to improve nuclear safety.

The conference has presented the substantial technical work undertaken by WENRA on: safety reference levels for existing nuclear power plants, safe management of radioactive waste and spent fuel and, more recently, on the crucial topic of the safety objectives for new nuclear power plants.

The conference has also provided an opportunity to present the activity of ENSREG: an independent, authoritative expert body created in 2007 following a decision of the EC having with a consultative of the Commission on nuclear safety and radioactive waste management.

ENSREG has established three working groups to undertake its work program:

WG1 on Nuclear Safety

WG2 on Waste Management

WG3 on Transparency

During the Conference the European regulators have provided an overview of the challenges they will have to face in the years ahead, notably on the safety of new reactors, extending the service life of existing reactors and safe decommissioning of nuclear installations.

Finally, stakeholders, NGOs, non-European regulators and international organizations dealing with nuclear safety have been given the floor to comment on how nuclear safety is organized in Europe and on recent developments in this part of the world.

http://www.ensreg.eu/


ENSREG Declaration for EU Stress Test

June 2011

After the accident that occurred on March 11th at Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, the European Council, in its meeting of March 24th 2011, agreed on a plan to subject all the European nuclear power plants to a homogeneous set of “stress tests” making it possible to assess their capacity to withstand situations beyond their respective Design Bases and identify the safety margins existing with respect to these bases, and the potential measures that might be implemented to improve their safety.
During a meeting held in Brussels on April 15th, with the participation of the EU, the regulatory bodies of the EU countries and industry representatives agreed that ENSREG, with technical support provided by WENRA, should draw up a proposal developing the technical content of the stress tests and define a method for their performance.
Based on the proposal drawn up by WENRA, ENSREG issued a declaration on May 14, 2011 defining the technical specifications for the ‘’stress tests’’ subsequently submitted to the European Council during its meeting of June 10th.

The main milestones of the ‘’Stress Tests’’ are the following:

Main milestones and schedule of ‘’Stress Tests’’:

Stress Tests scope and modalities May 2011

Requirements by national regulators to Operators June 01. 2011

Licensee progress reports to regulators August 15, 2011

Licensee final reports to national regulators October 31, 2011

National Regulators review December. 2011

EU Peer Review of national reports April 2012

EC and ENSREG report to the EU Council June 2012

ENSREG Declaration Stress Tests


WENRA first proposal about European “stress tests”
on nuclear power plants
Published on 23.03.11
Definition and objective

We define a “stress test” as a targeted reassessment of the safety margins of NPPs in the light of the events which occurred in Fukushima.
This reassessment will be based on the existing safety studies and engineering judgment to evaluate the behavior of a nuclear power plant when facing a set of challenging situations (those envisaged under the following section “technical scope”).
For a given plant, the reassessment will report on the behavior of the plant (most probable behavior, with mention of potential cliff-edge effect) for each of the considered situations.
The results of the reassessment may indicate a need for additional safety provisions being technical or organizational (such as procedures, human resources, emergency response organization, use of external resources).
It remains a national responsibility to take any appropriate measures resulting from the reassessment.

Technical scope

The scope takes into account the issues that have been directly highlighted by the events that occurred in Fukushima and the possibility for combination of initiating events. The following situations will be envisaged
Initiating events 1. Earthquake exceeding the design basis 2. Flooding exceeding the design basis 3. Other extreme external conditions challenging the specific site Consequential loss of safety functions 4. Prolonged total loss of electrical power 5. Prolonged loss of the ultimate heat sink Accident management issues 6. Core melt accident, including consequential effects such as hydrogen accumulation 7. Degraded conditions in the spent fuel storage, including consequential effects such as the loss of shielding of radiation Consideration should be given to: - automatic actions, - operators actions specified in emergency operating procedures, - any other planned measures of prevention, recovery and mitigation of accidents, - the situation outside the plant - the possibility of several units being affected at the same time. Given the tight timeframe of the exercise, very clear guidance for each selected scenario will be developed by WENRA.

Methodology and timeframe

The licensee has the prime responsibility for safety. Hence, it is up to the licensees to perform the reassessments, and to the regulatory bodies to independently review them.
A task force of WENRA should conduct discussions with the European nuclear industry and bring its proposal to the European Nuclear Safety Regulators Group (ENSREG) meeting scheduled on the 12th of May. This proposal will then be presented and further discussed at the European level.
Timeframe needs further consideration, taking into account the available resources for daily focus on safety. The following figures are just indications.
The licensees could be given 6 months to perform the reassessments as described above and to send the results and related documentation to their national regulator.
The regulator then would perform a review of the licensees’ submissions. Interactions between European regulators will be necessary and could be managed through WENRA or ENSREG. Regulators will perform, within 3 months, the review and produce a report which should be published.
Results of the reviews could be discussed in a public seminar, to which other experts (from non nuclear field, from NGOs, etc) should be invited.


EUROPEAN COUNCIL
Brussels, 24/25 March 2011
Conclusions. Extract for Nuclear Safety
III. JAPAN
The European Union will support Japan as it strives to overcome the challenges it faces after the earthquake and the tsunami that struck it with such tragic consequences……..

In this connection, the European Council stresses the need to fully draw the lessons from these events, and to provide all necessary information to the public. Recalling that the energy mix is the competence of Member States, it calls for work to be taken forward as a matter of priority on the following aspects:

· - the safety of all EU nuclear plants should be reviewed, on the basis of a comprehensive and transparent risk and safety assessment ("stress tests"); the European Nuclear Safety Regulatory Group (ENSREG) and the Commission are invited to develop as soon as possible the scope and modalities of these tests in a coordinated framework in the light of lessons learned from the accident in Japan and with the full involvement of Member States, making full use of available expertise (notably from the Western European Nuclear Regulators Association); the assessments will be conducted by independent national authorities and through peer review; their outcome and any necessary subsequent measures that will be taken should be shared with the Commission and within the ENSREG and should be made public; the European Council will assess initial findings by the end of 2011, on the basis of a report from the Commission;

· - the priority of ensuring the safety of nuclear plants obviously cannot stop at our borders; the EU will request that similar "stress tests" be carried out in the neighboring countries and worldwide, regarding both existing and planned plants; in this regard full use should be made of relevant international organizations;

· - the highest standards for nuclear safety should be implemented and continuously improved in the EU and promoted internationally;

· - the Commission will review the existing legal and regulatory framework for the safety of nuclear installations and will propose by the end of 2011 any improvements that may be necessary. Member States should ensure the full implementation of the Directive on the safety of nuclear installations. The proposed Directive on the management of spent fuel and radioactive waste should be adopted as soon as possible. The Commission is invited to reflect on how to promote nuclear safety in neighboring countries;

· - consequences for the world and for the EU need to be closely monitored, paying particular attention to the volatility of energy and commodity prices, in particular in the context of the G20.


1st Meeting of the Technical Advisory Committee
April 15, 2011
Rome - Italy


Agency for Nuclear Safety in Italy
February 2011
Italy

The President of the Italian Republic , Giorgio Napolitano, has signed on February 11, the presidential decree ratifying the nomination of 5 members of the ‘’Consiglio Direttivo’’ of the Agency for Nuclear Safety in Italy:

Chairman	Prof. Umberto Veronesi
Members	Prof. Maurizio Cumo Prof. Marco Ricotti Dr. Stefano Dambruoso Dr. Stefano Laporta

To follow the publication in the Official Gazette.

Course on

"Severe Accident Phenomenology"

January 10 - 14, 2011

Pisa - Italy

The Severe Accident (SA) Research Network of excellence SARNET-2 is sponsoring a new one-week Course entitled "Severe Accident Phenomenology". This course is a part of the Excellence Spreading activities of SARNET-2 and it will focus on disseminating the knowledge gained on SA in the last two decades to Master-PhD students, young engineers and researchers. The SARNET-2 project is co-funded by the EURATM research program in the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission.

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THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
ON NUCLEAR ENERGY
ISNE-10
isne@bau.edu.jo
http://isne.bau.edu.jo

Organized by

AL-BALQA APPLIED UNIVERSITY (BAU)
and
JORDAN NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION (JNRC)

Agenda ISNE 10
ITER Presentation
ITER Abstract


Regulatory Cooperation Forum
September 24, 2010
IAEA - Vienna

On 24^th of September, on the side of the IAEA General Conference, the first plenary meeting of the Regulatory Cooperation Forum (RCF) took place after the inception meeting on 21^st of June 2010.

The initiative to establish a forum providing effective coordination and collaboration among requesting Member States and those asked to provide regulatory support, was agreed during the 2009 IAEA Conference on Effective Nuclear Regulatory Systems held in Cape Town, South Africa.

Members of the Forum met under the IAEA´s aegis to discuss strategies and plans for the coming months. Coordination and information sharing is seen as a crucial tool to address the needs of nuclear newcomers and to guarantee that effective regulations are in place across the world´s nuclear sector.

Khammar Mrabit, Head of the IAEA Safety and Security Coordination Section, described in detail the aims and the scope of the IAEA-supported Regulatory Cooperation Forum.

Jordan was selected as recipient country to receive the first JRC mission whose results were reported during the meeting by RCF Chairman Mike Weightman and the JNRC Chairman Jamal Sharaf.


ITER Participation in IAEA ISSC Extra-Budgetary
Programs activities
August 25 – 27, 2010
Vienna

Considering the international cooperation and networking as a fundamental way to maintain competence, capability and knowledge, ITER-Consult is significantly committed, with its senior experts, in cooperation with IAEA in EBP programs. In particular for:

· Karisma benchmark to study the effects of July 2007 severe earthquake in Japan on the Kashiwazaki Kariwa NPP units and their design margin.

· Working areas on seismic hazard analysis and for seismic design.

The cooperation with IAEA envisages also coordination and leading function of ITER-Consult for the EBP activity in order to

develop objectives, approaches and requirements in the field of Public and Media interaction.

The cooperation with IAEA and other international organizations has shown to be extremely effective to develop capabilities,

to maintain updated knowledge and to strengthen international cooperation and networking.

Training on

" NPP siting requirements and safety review "

May 24-28, 2010

Vicovaro (Roma) - Italy

In the framework of an EC financed project, a training course on ‘’Siting requirements and safety review for NPP’’ was carried out by ITER-Consult (leader), IRSN and STUK. The objective of the course was to train the staff of the regulatory authority and TSOs to get familiar with requirements, analyses, methods for site analysis, content of documentation (site report) to be submitted for review to the regulatory authority and regulatory approach for review.

The training activity included an overview of the roles of different stakeholders and proceeded with a comprehensive set of lectures on the assessment process which characterizes the site analyses, the logical progress and the sequence of the analyses starting from the preliminary survey of the site, passing through consequent screening phases, up to the site detailed analyses. The objective is to identify and define the engineering measures to be taken in the design of the NPP in order to protect it from the external events as well as the provisions to be taken on the territory in order to consider, and minimize, the effects of the NPP on the environment and the public.


IAEA - JNES
International Conference on Challenges Faced by Technical and Scientific Support Organization (TSO) in Enhancing Nuclear Safety and Security
October 25 - 29, 2010
Tokyo - Japan

The objective of this conference is to develop a common understanding of the responsibilities, needs and opportunities of the Technical and Scientific Support Organizations (TSOs). The conference will further promote international cooperation and networking among the TSOs to enhance nuclear safety, radiation safety and nuclear security. In addition, capacity building in countries with both extensive and limited experience in nuclear programmes, and in those countries embarking on nuclear power programmes for the first time, will be explored. The conference will build on approaches identified in the TSO conference of 2007 consistent with a global vision for TSOs within the framework of the Global Nuclear Safety and security Regime.

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International Technical Meeting
"Seismic Safety of NPPS"
March 25-26, 2010
Tivoli - Italy

Seismic safety of Nuclear Power Plants is a key subject deserving particular consideration in the use of nuclear energy. Moreover this issue is a major concern in public opinion especially in countries with a moderate to high seismicity and it has significant impact on the development of nuclear energy programs.

Substantial attention needs to be paid to the seismic safety of NPP while developing a nuclear program.

In this perspective a Technical meeting on the ‘’Seismic Safety of NPP’’ is organized by ITER-Consult, ENEA, CIRTEN and Sapienza University–Engineering Faculty with the main objective to exchange views and discuss the topic of seismic safety of NPPs based on international studies and research activities, lessons learned from experience, current design and regulatory practices.

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Recent laws in nuclear field issued in Italy:

- Decreto legislativo del 15 febbraio 2010 , n. 31 ’’Disciplina della localizzazione, della realizzazione e dell’esercizio nel territorio nazionale di impianti di produzione di energia elettrica nucleare, di impianti di fabbricazione del combustibile nucleare, dei sistemi di stoccaggio del combustibile irraggiato e dei rifiuti radioattivi, nonché misure compensative e campagne informative al pubblico, a norma dell’articolo 25 della legge 23 luglio 2009, n. 99- Supplemento ordinario n. 45/L alla Gazzetta Ufficiale n. 55 del 8 marzo 2010.

- Legge 23 luglio 2009, n. 99 "Disposizioni per lo sviluppo e l'internazionalizzazione delle imprese, nonché in materia di energia" (art.29) - Gazzetta Ufficiale n. 176 del 31 luglio 2009.