Overview
- This NATO ARW brings together nuclear operators from a group of Eastern and Western countries, selected among the nuclear research and development institutions, in order to exchange ideas about the organization, that the participating institutions have built, to best draw and implement the lessons learned from operational experience including current events and minor incidents
- Objectives andfruitful discussions have been achieved upon "how to use the lessons learned from small events or near-misses occurring in the daily operation of nuclear research facilities, to prevent more serious events and thus increase safety"
Part of the book series: Nato Security through Science Series B: (NASTB)
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For operators of nuclear research facilities, it is of particular importance to investigate minor incidents: indeed, as safety demonstrations are generally based on the presence of several independent "lines of defence", only through attentive investigation of every occurrence, usually minor and of no consequence, can the level of trust placed in each of these defensive lines be confirmed, or the potential risks arising out of a possible weakness in the system be anticipated.
The efficiency of the system is based on a rigorous procedure: stringent attention to all incidents, consideration of the potential consequences of the incidents in their most pessimistic scenarios, and promotion of a broad conception of transpositions of the events, in time and space, for experience feedback.
This efficiency presumes motivation on the part of all those involved, hence the importance of dissociating from the concept of an "incident" any notion of "error" or "blame" both in internal analysis and in public communications.
The nuclear industry has developed some very progressive tools for experience feedback, which could interest also management of other technological risks.
This book presents the proceedings of a NATO Advanced Workshop dedicated to this important matter of concern.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Safety Improvements through Lessons Learned from Operational Experience in Nuclear Research Facilities
Editors: Francis Lambert, Yuri Volkov
Series Title: Nato Security through Science Series B:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3888-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3886-0Published: 21 December 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3887-7Published: 21 December 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3888-4Published: 30 December 2005
Series ISSN: 1871-465X
Series E-ISSN: 1871-4676
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 206
Topics: Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk, Facility Management, Nuclear Energy, Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection, Industrial Pollution Prevention, Energy Policy, Economics and Management