CHAPTER 3: Essentials of NPP design and operation

Approach in NPP design

The design for a nuclear power plant shall ensure that the plant and items important to safety have the appropriate characteristics to ensure that safety functions can be performed with the necessary reliability, that the plant can be operated safely within the operational limits and conditions for the full duration of its design life and can be safely decommissioned, and that impacts on the environment are minimized (SSR-2/1 (Rev.1), Requirement 6).