Second International Generic Ageing Lessons Learned (IGALL) Phase 6 Steering Committee Meeting

Background

In 2010, Member States launched an extrabudgetary programme known as the International Generic Ageing Lessons Learned (IGALL) programme with the objective to develop a general framework for effectively collecting experience and lessons learned on nuclear power plant (NPP) ageing management. The IGALL programme facilitates the exchange of experience accumulated in Member States that have operating NPPs, with regard to the identification, establishment, implementation and improvement of ageing management programmes (AMPs), taking into account the lessons learned worldwide for various types of reactors in order to assist Member States in implementing effective and harmonized ageing management.

Phase 1 of the IGALL programme was conducted in 2010–2013 and resulted in the development of an IAEA publication entitled Ageing Management for Nuclear Power Plants: International Generic Ageing Lessons Learned (IGALL) (Safety Reports Series No. 82, IAEA, Vienna, 2015) — further details on all deliverables of IGALL Phase 1 are available on the following public website: http://gnssn.iaea.org/NSNI/PoS/IGALL/SitePages/Home.aspx

Further development of the IGALL Safety Report and the associated database continued in 2014–2015 as IGALL Phase 2, in 2016–2017 as IGALL Phase 3, in 2018-2019 as IGALL Phase 4 and in 2020–2021 as Phase 5. Among IGALL Phase 6 objectives, the most substantial ones are: collect new AMPs and time limited ageing analyses (TLAAs) and update existing AMPs and TLAAs with references and operating experience in all programmes, enhance ageing management review (AMR) section with detailed information on best practices in AMR conduct, develop documents on regulatory practices for ageing management programme effectiveness review, and on review practices for reactor pressure vessel embrittlement, equipment qualification and containment ageing management.

Objectives

This second meeting of the Steering Committee for Phase 6 of the IGALL Programme has the following primary objectives:

1. To check the progress in the programme achieved by the Working Groups under Phase 6;

2. To review and approve the results of the Working Groups;

3. To ensure that the Working Groups identify gaps and overlaps through the exchange of information on related work that is already under way or planned to avoid duplication of effort;

4. To identify activities that will enhance, update and improve the IGALL programme and that will promote understanding and use of the findings from the programme, and to prioritize those activities;

5. To ensure consistent quality, format, scope and level of detail of information in IGALL products;

6. To identify the need for follow-up activities to enhance tools for ageing management; and

7. To discuss any proposals of IGALL Working Group members and prioritize tasks for IGALL Phase 7.

Target Audience

Member States with operating nuclear power plants participating in the IGALL programme are invited to the meeting.

Participation

All persons wishing to participate in the event must be designated by an IAEA Member State or should be members of organizations that have been invited to attend.

In order to be designated by an IAEA Member State, participants are requested to send the Participation Form (Form A) to their competent national authority (e.g. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Permanent Mission to the IAEA or National Atomic Energy Authority) for onward transmission to the IAEA by 31 August 2023. Participants who are members of an organization invited to attend are requested to send the Participation Form (Form A) through their organization to the IAEA by above deadline.

Venue

The event will be held at the Vienna International Centre (VIC) where the IAEA’s Headquarters are located. Participants must make their own travel and accommodation arrangements.