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Cooperation’ held at The Hague, The Netherlands 10.1.3 CANDU Probabilistic Safety Assessment
during November 4-7, 2019. Around 240 participants (PSA) Working Group
from various countries participated in the Conference
including 7 from India. This was the fifth conference in CANDU PSA Working Group (CPWG) organized a
its series and the first one with extended scope to include technical meeting at Vienna, Austria during September
regulatory systems for radiation applications also. The 30 to October 4, 2019. The objective of CPWG is to
objective of the conference was to share regulatory serve as an international forum to support regulatory
experiences related to improving the effectiveness of authorities, utilities and designer in their respective area
nuclear and radiation regulatory systems, taking into of PSA, to harmonize regulatory approaches on the use
account the outcomes of the past conferences in this of PSA, to exchange information on national practices,
series with primary focus on how to work together to PSA models and tools, regulatory review of CANDU
address cross-cutting regulatory areas. member states and exchange of results of regulatory
review, internal guidelines for use and review of PSA
The Indian delegation made an impactful impression and to produce technical reports on selected topics
and the key issues emphasised by Indian delegation related to CANDU / PHWR NPPs.
as part of invited talks and remarks by Session Chairs
and Co-chairs were noted for inclusion in the summary AERB officials submitted responses to questionnaires
report of the Conference. mainly on Level-2 PSA w.r.t. Plant Damage States-

Executive Director, AERB as part of the Panel Discussion on Leadership and Management for Safety and Security

Executive Director, AERB making presentation in Conference Indian Delegation in Conference

Glimpses of International Conference on ‘Effective Nuclear and Radiation Regulatory Systems’

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