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Members of the programme
Since 2015, theMDEPhas comprised15national regulatory
bodies (AERB – India, ASN – France, CCSN – Canada,
FANR – United Arab Emirates, HAEA – Hungary,
NNR – South Africa, NNSA – China, NRA – Japan,
NRC–United States, NSSC– SouthKorea, ONR –United
Kingdom, RTN – Russian Federation, SSM – Sweden,
STUK – Finland, TAEK – Turkey).
Organisation
The broad outlines of thework achievedwithin theMDEP
are defined by its StrategyCommittee and implemented by
the Steering Technical Committee. The Steering Technical
Committee has been chaired since February 2015 by
Julien Collet, ASN Deputy Director General. This work
is performed by working groups whichmeet periodically
to deal with specific projects for nuclear reactors – the
Design Specific Working Groups (DSWG) and specific
technical subjects – the Issue Specific Working Group
(ISWG).
TheDSWGgroups devoted to the EPR reactor (comprising
the safety regulators of China, the United States, France,
Finland, India, the United Kingdom and Sweden), to
the AP1000 reactor (comprising the safety regulators of
Canada, China, the United States, the United Kingdom
and Sweden) and the APR1400 reactor (comprising the
safety regulators of SouthKorea, theUnitedArab Emirates,
United States and Finland), were supplemented in 2014
by a group devoted to the VVER reactor (in which the
safety regulators of Finland, India, Russia and Turkey in
particular take part) and a group devoted to the ABWR
reactor (safety regulators of the United States, Finland,
Japan, the United Kingdom and Sweden).
Three ISWG groups are working on harmonising
the multinational inspection of nuclear component
manufacturers (Vendor Inspection CooperationWorking
Group – VICWG), on standards and codes for pressure
vessel components (Codes and Standards Working
Group – CSWG), and on design standards for digital
I&C (Digital Instrumentation and Control Working
Group – DICWG).
Activities
In addition to the periodicmeetings by the variousworking
groups, theMDEP began a reviewof its activities in 2015
in order to reinforce the effectiveness of its actions and
optimise its preparations for meeting the forthcoming
challenges it will have to face (activities linked tomonitoring
the start-up process for the EPR and AP1000 reactors,
organisation of the working groups, etc.). The results of
this review were debated by the heads of the member
authorities of the programme during the annual Policy
Group meeting in Paris on 4th June 2015.
INRA meeting at ASN (France), 7th-8th May 2015. Left to right: Stephen G. Burns, Chairman, NRC (United States); Pierre-Franck Chevet, Chairman, ASN (France);
Fernando Marti Scharfhausen, Chairman, CSN (Spain); Shunichi Tanaka, Chairman, NRA (Japan); Michael Binder, President and CEO, CCSN (Canada); Wolfgang Cloosters,
Head of safety for nuclear facilities, radiation protection and the nuclear fuel cycle, BMUB (Germany); Mats Persson, President, SSM (Sweden); Andy Hall, Chief nuclear inspector,
ONR (United Kingdom); Un Chul Lee, Chairman and head of regulatory affairs, NSSC (South Korea).
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ASN report on the state of nuclear safety and radiation protection in France in 2015