Nuclear Security and Safeguards Considerations for Next Generation Reactors

Watch the recording of the recent Nuclear Security Culture Programme side-event organised at the 2022 Conference of the Parties to the Amendment to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material.
A panel of international experts, including representatives from the World Institute for Nuclear Security (WINS), Office for Nuclear Regulation, Nuclear Material Security, Nuclear Threat Initiative, National Nuclear Laboratory, Amport Risk Limited and King’s College London as they explore the key safety and security considerations for SMR/AMRs.
Small modular reactors and advanced modular reactors (SMR and AMR) present significant opportunities for innovation in operations, safety, security and safeguarding. However, technology developers often focus their attention on the first two of these items, particularly during early stages of design, leaving security and safeguarding until later, when concepts are already relatively firm and opportunities to follow the best practice approaches of security- and safeguards-by-design have been missed. This will likely result in the sub-optimal delivery of security and safeguards and consequent elevated through-life operating costs.

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