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power plant). The guidelines contained in R.G. 1.70 are very comprehensive and the 17 chapters which must be compiled include:
plant site, structure, parts and accessory system, reactor, coolant system, engineering safety facilities, instruments and
control, electricity system, supplementary system, water system,
transformation
system,
handling
of
steam-electricity radiological waste, radiological protection, operational management, initial test plan, incident analysis, technological
requirements and quality assurance. Since the occurrence of the
Three Mile Island (TMI) incident, a Chapter 18 on "Human Factors
in Engineering" was added. Each chapter has to be elaborated
fully by sections and paragraphs on various problems involving nuclear safety.
Nuclear
safety regulations and standards are used as
"yardsticks" in the assessment of nuclear safety analysis reports. In the safety assessment of Guangdong Nuclear Power Station, we shall cooperate with IPSN of France in the technical aspects, drawing on their more mature and advanced methods and experience. Our assessment experts have studied the "Standards
Review Plan"
Plan" (containing about 2,200 pages) prepared by the US
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, corresponding
to the different
chapters and sections of R.G. 1.70 in that it prescribes in the corresponding parts the primary and secondary assessment units,
areas of assessment, criteria for inspection and acceptance,
assessment procedures and concluding comments. Our assessment
teams will assess the Guangdong Nuclear Power Plant on this
technical basis.
assessment is
The technical team involved in safety
competent both in terms of quality and quantity. There are
altogether some 120 persons;
most of them are technical experts
with more than 20 years of working experience and coming from the production, scientific research, and design departments of the
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