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The TSO Forum in the Global Nuclear Safety

and Security Network (GNSSN)

Matthias Heitsch1, Lingquan Guo2

1Nuclear Reactor Safety Assessment Unit

Institute for Energy and Transport, EC-DG Joint Research Centre

http://iet.jrc.ec.europa.eu 2Department of Nuclear Safety and Security

IAEA

IAEA TSO Conf., Beijing, 27-31 October 2014

http://iet.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

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Outline

• Background

• How to find the TSO Forum (TSOF) in GNSSN

• Tour through public and restricted webspaces

• Summary


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• The TSO Conference 2010 in Tokyo concluded among others “The IAEA should continue to be a strong driving force for the development of TSO capability” and recommended:

• “The IAEA should foster the establishment of a forum dedicated to nuclear safety infrastructure development issues related to scientific and technical support”.

• In response to that recommendation and after some preparatory steps the TSO Forum was established in January 2012 and a Steering Committee was formed.


Background

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• The Terms of Reference of the Forum define the objectives, working method and scope of the Forum.

• Membership is open to all MS with groups of expert or organizations after official nomination.

• Important is the technical support function and not the form in which it is organized.


Background

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• GNSSN - The Global Nuclear Safety and Security Network of the IAEA is a key support element of the Global Nuclear Safety and Security Framework (GNSSF).

• The web platform of GNSSN is host for many networks. One element of this “Network of Networks” is the Technical and Scientific Support Organization Forum or TSOF.

• You can enter the website of TSOF through: http://gnssn.iaea.org


General

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• Select ‘Global Networks’ on the horizontal navigation bar:


General

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• Then select from the list of ‘Global Networks’ TSOF:


General

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• The welcome page of TSOF gives access to the public site.


General

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• ‘Conferences’ holds documents from the three TSO Conferences including our recent meeting.


Public part of TSOF

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• ‘Information on TSOs’ provides a short description and contact data of TSOF members


Public part of TSOF

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• ‘Training & Tutoring Activities’ is information and offer of training opportunities by TSOs


Public part of TSOF

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• ‘Meetings of Interest to TSOs’ contains a selection of meetings and international conferences


Public part of TSOF

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• The collaboration space of TSOF requires registration


Public part of TSOF

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• The collaboration space of TSOF requires registration through Nucleus (common access point to IAEA information resources)


Public part of TSOF

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Restricted part of TSOF

• Here you have access to SC meeting documents, Plenaries at GCs and shared documents



• Document libraries of all meetings are set up with the same basic structure



• Another source of information are ‘Shared Documents’



• ‘Fukushima Daiichi related Documents’ include research work, main conclusions and lessons to be learned



• ‘Fukushima Daiichi related Documents’ include research work, main conclusions and lessons to be learned;

• The summaries are currently available in tables grouped by organizations;

• An interesting additional step will be to analyze the activities if similar conclusions/lessons have been drawn by different research groups in different TSOs.



• ‘Safety assessments’ contains reports shared by ETSON with the expert community


Summary

• The TSO Forum and its website were created in response to the recommendations from the TSO Conference 2010 in Tokyo.

• The Forum started its activities in 2012.

• The Forum is open to experts from all MS after registration.

• The Steering Committee meets twice per year to exchange new information, to review the working plan and to define new activities as appropriate.

• The TSO Forum has turned out to provide an added value in the attempt to intensify international collaboration of technical and scientific experts.