Accomplishments and objectives of the PNC codes and standards working group

Conference · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1992 · Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (United States)

OSTI ID:5888322

This paper describes the activities of the Pacific Nuclear Council Codes and Standards Working Group during the past several years, and discuss its objectives. The Working Group has met regularly since 1985 to discuss ways to implement the following mission statement: [open quotes]To encourage the use of reasonably consistent criteria for the design, fabrication, construction, testing, operations and maintenance of hardware components, systems, subsystems and structures for the commercial nuclear power plants in the Pacific Basin so as to: Promote comparable safety standards; Encourage commerce among PBNCC member countries; Reduce the costs of fabrication, construction, testing, operation and maintenance; and, Facilitate the sharing of spare parts inventories[close quotes]. During the first few meetings it became apparent that further clarification of the mission statement was necessary to recognize the point that each member country has their own codes and standards and that uniformity of these codes and standards was not the objective of the working group. The objective is more oriented toward achieving a mutual understanding of the codes and standards used in each country so that purchase of items from other countries or sharing spare parts could be accomplished more efficiently. In addition, this prior knowledge of the codes and standards to which components were fabricated could be useful if a problem with a component developed in one country and assistance in solving the problem were to be provided by another country. Evaluation of the differences in codes and standards used by other countries also provides an opportunity to consider other opinions.

• OSTI ID: 5888322
• Report Number(s): CONF-920414--
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (United States) Journal Volume: 65
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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