Miscellaneous information

• Human Costs of a Nuclear Accident [232 KB]
  This report is in response to an invitation Health and Safety Executive to advise on the valuation of health effects to radiation, to inform a model being developed by the Health Protection Agency to assess the economic consequences of an accidental release of radioactive material. (March 2008)
• Financial implications of licence compliance at NDA sites [PDF 55kb]
• Licensing of safety critical software for nuclear reactors. Common position of seven European nuclear regulators and authorised technical support organisations (Revision 2007) [PDF 735kb]
  This document describes the work of a group of regulator and safety authorities’ Instrumentation & Control experts, supported by the EC and WENRA. The document provides common technical positions on a set of important licensing issues raised by the design and operation of safety critical software used in Nuclear Power Plants for the implementation of safety functions. A revision of the common position and recommended practices of the EC consensus document published in May 2000: “Common position of nuclear regulators for the licensing of safety critical software for nuclear reactors (EUR 19265)” is part of this report.
• The use of computers in safety-critical applications [PDF 730kb]
• Managing Competence for Safety-related Systems
  

  The Health and Safety Executive in partnership with the Institution of Engineering Technology (IET) and the British Computer Society (BCS), have published guidance to help companies manage the competence of staff who are involved with electronic safety-related systems e.g. access protection for nuclear reprocessing, fly-by-wire in aircraft, shutdown systems in the petrochemical industry and offshore and safeguarding arrangements for machinery and industrial automation. The guidance is published in two parts and is available free via the links below.

  • Part 1: Key Guidance [PDF 690kb]
  • Part 2: Supplementary Material [PDF 1.1mb]