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Risk‐Informed Regulation and Safety Management of Nuclear Power Plants—On the Prevention of Severe Accidents

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  • Risto Himanen
  • Ari Julin
  • Kalle Jänkälä
  • Jan‐Erik Holmberg
  • Reino Virolainen

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There are four operating nuclear power plant (NPP) units in Finland. The Teollisuuden Voima (TVO) power company has two 840 MWe BWR units supplied by Asea‐Atom at the Olkiluoto site. The Fortum corporation (formerly IVO) has two 500 MWe VVER 440/213 units at the Loviisa site. In addition, a 1600 MWe European Pressurized Water Reactor supplied by AREVA NP (formerly the Framatome ANP—Siemens AG Consortium) is under construction at the Olkiluoto site. Recently, the Finnish Parliament ratified the government Decision in Principle that the utilities' applications to build two new NPP units are in line with the total good of the society. The Finnish utilities, Fenno power company, and TVO company are in progress of qualifying the type of the new nuclear builds. In Finland, risk‐informed applications are formally integrated in the regulatory process of NPPs that are already in the early design phase and these are to run through the construction and operation phases all through the entire plant service time. A plant‐specific full‐scope probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) is required for each NPP. PRAs shall cover internal events, area events (fires, floods), and external events such as harsh weather conditions and seismic events in all operating modes. Special attention is devoted to the use of various risk‐informed PRA applications in the licensing of Olkiluoto 3 NPP.

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  • Risto Himanen & Ari Julin & Kalle Jänkälä & Jan‐Erik Holmberg & Reino Virolainen, 2012. "Risk‐Informed Regulation and Safety Management of Nuclear Power Plants—On the Prevention of Severe Accidents," Risk Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 32(11), pages 1978-1993, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:riskan:v:32:y:2012:i:11:p:1978-1993
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2012.01904.x
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    1. Jylhä, Kirsti & Kämäräinen, Matti & Fortelius, Carl & Gregow, Hilppa & Helander, Juho & Hyvärinen, Otto & Johansson, Milla & Karppinen, Ari & Korpinen, Anniina & Kouznetsov, Rostislav & Kurzeneva, Eka, 2018. "Recent meteorological and marine studies to support nuclear power plant safety in Finland," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 165(PA), pages 1102-1118.
    2. Robert Goble & Vicki M. Bier, 2013. "Risk Assessment Can Be a Game‐Changing Information Technology—But Too Often It Isn't," Risk Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 33(11), pages 1942-1951, November.

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