5 Summary
In this chapter, the challenges for nuclear safety with respect to natural hazard risk
management were summarized from the viewpoint of a risk-informed framework,
defense in depth, design, and regional disaster prevention/mitigation.
The application of the resilience concept to nuclear safety and maintenance
science and technology was discussed. Resilience engineering is considered to be a
discipline that broadly applies theories and technologies related to safety, which can
especially refine and enhance the concept of defense in depth, the fundamental
concept of nuclear safety. Roles of stakeholders (public, utilities, vendors, regulatory bodies, government, academia, etc.) need to be discussed in this context, to
reconsider the conventional procedures for nuclear safety.
References
1. http://www.fdma.go.jp/bn/higaihou_new.html (in Japanese) Accessed 20 Sept 2015
2. International Organization for Standardization: ISO 31000:2009, Risk management—
Principles and guidelines, (2009)
3. International Atomic Energy Agency: Fundamental Safety Principles, Safety Fundamentals,
No.SF-1 (2006)
4. S. Kaplan, B.J. Garrick, On the quantitative definition of risk. Risk Anal. 1(1), 11–27 (1981)
5. International Atomic Energy Agency: A Framework for an Integrated Risk Informed Decision
Making Process, INSAG-25, A report by the International Nuclear Safety Group (2011)
6. A. Stirling, Keep it complex. Nature 468, 1029–1031 (2010)
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glossary/defense-in-depth.html. Accessed 20 Sept 2015
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report by the international safety advisory group (1996)
9. Joint Editorial Committee for the Report on the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster, Report
on the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster Nuclear Engineering Volume (in Japanese with
English abstract) (2015)
10. The National Academies: Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative (2001)
11. N. Sekimura, H. Miyano, T. Itoi, Resilience Engineering: New Discipline for Enhancement of
Nuclear Safety, Proceedings of ICMST-Kobe 2014 (2014)
12. Committee on Increasing National Resilience to Hazards and Disasters; Committee on
Science, Engineering, and Public Policy; The National Academies: Disaster Resilience: A
National Imperative (2012)
13. E. Hollnagel, Safety-I and Safety-II The Past and Future of Safety Management (Ashgate,
2014)
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In this chapter, the challenges for nuclear safety with respect to natural hazard risk
management were summarized from the viewpoint of a risk-informed framework,
defense in depth, design, and regional disaster prevention/mitigation.
The application of the resilience concept to nuclear safety and maintenance
science and technology was discussed. Resilience engineering is considered to be a
discipline that broadly applies theories and technologies related to safety, which can
especially refine and enhance the concept of defense in depth, the fundamental
concept of nuclear safety. Roles of stakeholders (public, utilities, vendors, regulatory bodies, government, academia, etc.) need to be discussed in this context, to
reconsider the conventional procedures for nuclear safety.
References
1. http://www.fdma.go.jp/bn/higaihou_new.html (in Japanese) Accessed 20 Sept 2015
2. International Organization for Standardization: ISO 31000:2009, Risk management—
Principles and guidelines, (2009)
3. International Atomic Energy Agency: Fundamental Safety Principles, Safety Fundamentals,
No.SF-1 (2006)
4. S. Kaplan, B.J. Garrick, On the quantitative definition of risk. Risk Anal. 1(1), 11–27 (1981)
5. International Atomic Energy Agency: A Framework for an Integrated Risk Informed Decision
Making Process, INSAG-25, A report by the International Nuclear Safety Group (2011)
6. A. Stirling, Keep it complex. Nature 468, 1029–1031 (2010)
7. United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/
glossary/defense-in-depth.html. Accessed 20 Sept 2015
8. International Atomic Energy Agency, Defence in Depth in Nuclear Safety, INSAG-10, A
report by the international safety advisory group (1996)
9. Joint Editorial Committee for the Report on the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster, Report
on the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster Nuclear Engineering Volume (in Japanese with
English abstract) (2015)
10. The National Academies: Disaster Resilience: A National Imperative (2001)
11. N. Sekimura, H. Miyano, T. Itoi, Resilience Engineering: New Discipline for Enhancement of
Nuclear Safety, Proceedings of ICMST-Kobe 2014 (2014)
12. Committee on Increasing National Resilience to Hazards and Disasters; Committee on
Science, Engineering, and Public Policy; The National Academies: Disaster Resilience: A
National Imperative (2012)
13. E. Hollnagel, Safety-I and Safety-II The Past and Future of Safety Management (Ashgate,
2014)
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