A Study on the Construction of a Nuclear Safety Standards Integrated Management System in the Republic of Korea

Abstract

Nuclear safety standards should be continuously improved by reflecting the latest international standards and regulatory experience, but in the Republic of Korea, they are still used only for limited purposes, such as the disclosure of safety standard information and status. Therefore, it is very urgent to establish an integrated management system that can flexibly improve nuclear safety standards. In this study, based on the investigation of the strengths and weaknesses of similar systems at home and abroad, in relation to the development and management of safety standards, this study intends to identify problems and suggest ways to improve the current domestic nuclear safety standards management. To this end, 15 experts related to the development and management of nuclear safety standards were included as a Delphi panel, and a questionnaire survey and SWAT analysis of similar systems at home and abroad were conducted. The essential factors to consider for establishing an integrated nuclear safety standard management system are the safety standard development procedures and methods, and the methods of providing information on safety standards and collecting opinions. For this, the problems of the current nuclear safety standard management system and the following five measures to improve are derived. 1) reflecting the informatization of the work process of developing safety standard enactment and amendment, 2) regular analysis of overseas safety standards and development of domestic requirements management system, 3) development of mid-to-long-term safety standard roadmap management system, 4) safety standard information Expansion of readability and openness, 5) provision of a window for express opinions at each stage of safety standard development. In addition, we propose four work processes (information collection, constant analysis, safety standard development management, and information provision) reflecting the above improvement measures. The proposed method through this study is expected to be a good blueprint for the construction and operation of an integrated web-based safety standards management system in the future.