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and forum for governments to coordinate the initiatives outlined above.


■ Regional initiatives have been taken by regulators and utilities (such as the Western European Regulators’


Association


(WENRA) and the European Nuclear Installations Safety Standards (ENISS) initiative in Europe). WENRA has established common reference levels for reactor safety to be implemented in member countries and which will lead to further harmonization.


■ The IAEA’s Integrated


Regulatory Review Service (IRRS) provides reviews of national regulatory systems to identify and spread best practices in licensing and oversight.


Implications for Global Strategy The WNA Nuclear Century Outlook, although speculative, is fair-minded in design,


draws heavily on respected expert analysis, and serves to underscore the full magnitude and urgency of the global environmental challenge. The Outlook carries important implications for strategy and action:


■ The IAEA also provides a reference point for states seeking to establish a nuclear infrastructure. The IAEA Safety Standards specify safety requirements and guides representing best/ good practices, which are increasingly used as reference for review of national safety standards and as a benchmark for harmonization in all countries utilizing nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.


Conclusion The standardisation of reactor designs is essential for


achieving increased attractiveness in nuclear investment and for capitalizing on the major opportunity to enhance safety that is necessary if the full potential of nuclear power is to be realized in the decades ahead. Because standardisation cannot be achieved by industry alone, the WNA’s CORDEL group – representing the coordinated views of the global nuclear industry – strongly recommends a determined joint effort of industry, governments and regulators to achieve the standardisation goal. Only such a joint effort – extending from the national level


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– While new countries can and should introduce nuclear energy, over 80% of nuclear growth – and thus most of nuclear technology’s environmental contribution – will occur in nations already generating nuclear power. – Even with expansive growth in nuclear power, renewables will also be needed on a large scale, despite their higher cost. In this sense, nuclear and renewables are not competitors but clean-energy partners. – Conversely, even if renewable and clean-fossil technologies meet extremely optimistic assumptions, a global clean-energy revolution adequate to avert catastrophic climate change will require an enormous contribution from nuclear power and extensive realisation of its worldwide growth potential.


Source: WNA


to cooperation internationally – can produce the changes in the worldwide nuclear regulatory and industry landscape necessary to attain the acceptance and application of common safety standards. WNA director John Ritch stressed the importance of the


industry’s collective effort: “Momentum toward the important objective of reactor design standardisation will be achieved only with active stimulus and expertise from major nuclear companies acting together. The CORDEL group is now mandated to perform that role. We see in this WNA effort a paradigm for collective industry action to shape the future of civil nuclear power.” ■


Irina Borysova is a Project Manager with the World Nuclear Organisation. www.world-nuclear.org


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