BESEP

In the EU, most operational nuclear power plants were built in the 1970s and 1980s and they were designed to last around 40 years. Preparing nuclear power plants for old age is a top priority to keep them longer and safer. The EU-funded BESEP project will develop best practices for safety requirements’ verification against external hazards. It will use an efficient and integrated set of safety engineering practices and probabilistic safety assessment. The project aims to provide clear guidance on the closer connection of deterministic and probabilistic safety analysis and human factors engineering for the determination and realistic quantification of safety margins. The findings will provide guidance for more sophisticated safety analysis methods, such as upgrades of simulation tools.

Duration: 1 September 2020 - 29 February 2024