AREAS WHERE SIGNIFICANT HARMONIZATION EXISTS

The topics and issues where significant harmonization exists can be grouped into the following categories  

Fundamental design approaches Accident considerations Safety goals and decision processes Safety culture and human factors Miscellaneous issues. 

Many of the items in Table I had already been discussed in IAEA-TECDOC-801 [1]. Citations from this publication are significant because this technical document covers this issue appropriately, and that harmonization already exists on the issue in question, at least to the level of detail that issue is presented in TECDOC-801. Therefore, many discussions in this report are intentionally brief, and the reader is encouraged to read the relevant citations in TECDOC-801. 

What is important in the present context of this TCM is the effort to identify where harmonization on these matters exists today, and to jointly develop ideas in areas where harmonization does not exist that could be a first step toward an improved situation. These matters where consensus is only emerging or is only partly achieved are discussed in Section 4. 

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Areas where significant harmonization already exists include ... 

The main purpose of the Technical Committee Meeting (TCM) was to exchange information on the development of safety approaches to enhance the safety of future NPPs, by utilities, regulators and other organizations to note those areas where significant agreement already exists and to consider further harmonization of these approaches in the future. 

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