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10.2.3 Indian National Report to 8 CNS CNS on August 15, 2019. The report narrates India’s
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position and actions undertaken during the past three
India is a Contracting years towards the fulfilment of its obligations under the
Party to the Convention convention. Indian Report was reviewed by Contracting
on Nuclear Safety (CNS) Parties, on AERB which received total 116 questions
and actively participates and provided answers to all these questions within the
in its activities towards stipulated time.
fulfilling the obligations
of the convention. The AERB has reviewed the CNS national reports
convention aims to of other contracting parties of CNS and posted the
commit participating questions as per the CNS calendar.
countries operating land-
based civil nuclear power CNS peer review framework requires conduct of
plants to maintain a high an Officers Turnover Meeting as an important step
level of safety by setting towards imparting training to the representative of the
international benchmarks participating Contracting Parties. The same was held
to which the countries during March 1-3, 2019 and attended by a senior
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would subscribe. Pursuant to this, India has already officer from AERB. The 8 Review Meeting of the CNS
submitted its National Report for 8 Review Meeting of is planned during March, 2020.
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10.2.4 NEA/MDEP Activities

AERB continued to coordinate the activities related
to India’s participation in the Nuclear Energy Agency
(NEA) of Organisation for Economic Cooperation
and Development (OECD). During the period, AERB
experts contributed in the following programmes:
• Two officers worked on Recombiner Performance
and Hydrogen Combustion related studies at
Becker Technologies, Germany as part of OECD/
NEA THAI-3 project.

• AERB officer participated and contributed in 20 th
meeting of AP1000 WG of MDEP in USA, during
Shri D. K. Shukla, ED, AERB, Shri S. K. Ghosh, Head, DRI December 10-13, 2019.
and Shri S. Harikumar in IAEA-CNS officers’ turnover meeting

Chairman, AERB interacting with GAEC Delegation

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