NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION: Strategy Needed to Develop a Risk-Informed Safety Approach

Abstract

We are here to testify about the actions that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has taken to move from its traditional regulatory approach to an approach that considers risk in conjunction with engineering analyses and operating experience-termed risk-informed regulation. NRC believes that a risk-informed approach would reduce unnecessary regulatory burden and costs, without reducing safety. Our testimony today is based on ongoing work we are conducting for Senators Lieberman and Biden. Specifically, our testimony discusses the (1) issues that NRC needs to resolve to implement a risk-informed regulatory approach and (2) status of NRC'S efforts to make two of its oversight programs-overall plant safety assessments and enforcement-risk-informed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 04, 1999
Accession Number
ADA359983

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Electric Power
  • Electrical Equipment
  • Energy
  • Engineering
  • Guidance
  • Health
  • Indicators
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Nuclear Energy
  • Nuclear Power Plants
  • Organizational Structure
  • Public Health
  • Risk
  • Risk Analysis
  • Safety Analysis
  • Standards
  • United States

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