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Chapter 2: Introduction to Nuclear Safety
Requirements for the design of Nuclear Power Plants
CONTENTS
1. GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
AND REACTOR TYPES
2. INTRODUCTION TO NUCLEAR SAFETY
      2.1 Fundamental Safety Principles
      2.2 Defence-in-Depth
      2.3 Safety Functions
      2.4 Requirements for the design of Nuclear Power Plants
        2.4.1 Overview of IAEA Safety Standards
        2.4.2 Evolution of IAEA requirements for the design
         of Nuclear Power Plants
        2.4.3 Strengthened requirements introduced
        with SSR-2/1 (Rev. 1)
          2.4.3.1 Plant states considered for the design
          2.4.3.2 Strengthened independence of levels
          of Defence-in-Depth
          2.4.3.3 Practical elimination of sequences leading to
          large or early radioactive releases
          2.4.3.4 Strengthened requirements for the design
          against external hazards
          2.4.3.5 Features to enable the safe use of
          non-permanent equipment for accident management
        2.4.4 Enhancement of safety of currently operating NPPs
          no in the framework of Periodic Safety Reviews
        2.5 Consideration of requirements for design safety of
        NPPs and related applicability of the SAMG-D Toolkit
3. ESSENTIALS OF NPP DESIGN AND OPERATION
4. INTRODUCTION TO ACCIDENT MANAGEMENT