SEC NRS participated in ETSON General Assembly Meeting

SEC NRS participated in ETSON General Assembly Meeting 17.07.2015 The regular session of the General Assembly of the European Technical Safety Organizations Network (ETSON) took place in Garching (Germany) on July 10, 2015.

The representatives from 11 member-countries of ETSON participated in this session: France, Germany, Belgium, Finland, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Switzerland, the Russian Federation, UK, Ukraine.

The session attendees discussed various issues related to the work of Association, ongoing activity of ETSON working groups and expert subgroups and their results as well as the aspects required for organizing and holding of the EUROSAFE Forum on November 2-3, 2015 in Brussels (Belgium).

The elections of new ETSON Board members for the two-year period were held at the conclusion of this session. Director of SEC NRS, Alexander Khamaza, was unanimously elected as one of the Vice-Presidents of ETSON.

The next regular meeting of ETSON General Assembly will take place within the frames of the EUROSAFE Forum in Belgium.

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The European Technical Safety Organisations Network (ETSON) was established in 2006 as a result of efforts made by Technical and Scientific Support Organizations of France (IRSN), Germany (GRS), Belgium (former AVN and presently Bel V) with the purpose to strengthen and maintain the current successful cooperation practice, as well as to enter the market of nuclear review in the status of a unified highly experienced expert.

At the moment, in addition to the founding organizations, the Association includes TSOs from European Union member states: AMEC (UK), INRNE BAS (Bulgaria), LEI (Lithuania), VUJE (Slovakia), JSI (Slovenia), VTT (Finland), CV REZ (UJV) (Czech Republic), PSI (Switzerland) and organizations from non-European Union states: SEC NRS (Russia), NRA (Japan) and SSTC NRS (Ukraine).

Extensive work was performed by SEC NRS to substantiate the correspondence to the required characteristics of ETSON membership. Compliance with these criteria together with the fact that SEC NRS had established itself to be the reliable partner in the framework of bilateral cooperation with several ETSON member countries, continued with SEC NRS entering the Association membership in 2012.

Since that time SEC NRS has been actively participated in the activity of all major ETSON working groups and expert subgroups on different directions of scientific research in the sphere of nuclear and radiation safety.

The ETSON Board proposal to organize ETSON General Assembly session in Russia was one of the primary outcomes of SEC NRS activity as the Association member. On July 02-03, 2013 the regular session of ETSON General Assembly took place in St. Petersburg which was duly organized by SEC NRS. In the frames of this event the technical visit of foreign participants to the site of Leningrad NPP-2 under construction was made possible.

Current and continued SEC NRS involvement in ETSON work will enable the TSO of Rostechnadzor to share its experience and cutting-edge practices between mature expert organizations regarding the aspects of safety review (analysis) of nuclear facilities and the related activities, joint scientific research, safety guides development. It will allow to provide the comprehensive scientific and technical support to the Russian state nuclear regulatory authority more effectively.

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