August 31-September 4 2009
Manchester, UK
Chancellors Hotel and Conference Centre

A four-day forum bringing together participants
from nuclear utilities, regulators and vendors.

Over the past two decades, the benefits – in overall cost and safety – of reactor design standardization have been the subject of several initiatives on the part of nuclear regulators, vendors and utilities. Today’s context – of expanding nuclear new build worldwide – gives fresh urgency to creating wider understanding of the benefits to be attained and the issues at stake in attaining them.

This WNU forum, with support from the European Utilities Requirement (EUR) organization and WNA’s Cooperation in Reactor Design Evaluation and Licensing (CORDEL) group, will review and analyse past initiatives, and seek to assess where further efforts should be focused in the future. The forum will cover ongoing efforts of the European Nuclear Installations Safety Standards (ENISS) initiative, the Multinational Design Evaluation Programme (MDEP) and the Western European Regulators’ Association (WENRA).

Other design requirements harmonization forums should follow, in Asia and America, each focusing on specific regional issues.

You can find out more from the World Nuclear Forum site.