Total safety: A new safety culture to integrate nuclear safety and operational safety

Journal Article · Mon Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1991 · Nuclear Safety

OSTI ID:226783

Saji, G ^[1]; Murphy, G A ^[2]

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1. Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Ibaraki-ken (Japan)
2. ed.

The creation of a complete and thorough safety culture is proposed for the purpose of providing additional assurance about nuclear safety and improving the performance of nuclear power plants. The safety philosophy developed a combination of the former hardware-oriented nuclear safety approach and recent operational safety concepts. The improvement of the latter, after TMI-2 and Chernobyl, has been proven very effective in reducing the total risk associated with nuclear power plants. The first part of this article introduces a {open_quotes}total safety{close_quotes} concept. This extends the concept of {open_quotes}nuclear safety{close_quotes} and makes it closer to the public perception of safety. This concept is defined by means of a taxonomy of total safety. The second part of the article shows that total safety can be achieved by integrating it into a modern quality assurance (QA) system since it is tailored to make implementation into a framework of QA easier. The author believes that the outstanding success experienced by various industries as a result of introducing the modern QA system should lead to its application for ensuring the safety and performance of nuclear facilities. 15 refs., 3 figs.

• OSTI ID: 226783
• Journal Information: Nuclear Safety, Journal Name: Nuclear Safety Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 32; ISSN 0029-5604; ISSN NUSAAZ
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS
NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
OPERATION
PUBLIC OPINION
QUALITY ASSURANCE
REACTOR SAFETY