The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has published a list of 33 actions that it is requesting nuclear power station management to take in response to its post-Fukushima task force report published last year and to responses from related consultations.
CNSC has grouped the actions into three categories, namely strengthening reactor defence in depth, enhancing emergency response and improving regulatory framework and processes. Short-term actions need to be completed by December 2012, mid-term actions by December 2013, and long-term actions by December 2015.
Actions range from the relatively simple, such as reviewing emergency response drills (by end December 2012), or more technical ones such as an investigation of how to provide key instrumentation and control features for eight hours without the need for offsite support (also by December 2012).
CNSC staff will inform the commission of these recommendations in a public meeting on 3 May at the CNSC Public Hearing Room, 14th floor, 280 Slater Street, Ottawa, Ontario.
Interested parties including the general public may submit written comments by 2 April via http://www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/commission/intervention/index.cfm, or by post.
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