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Nuclear safety covers the actions taken to prevent nuclear and radiation accidents or to limit their consequences.

Many nations utilizing nuclear power have special institutions overseeing and regulating nuclear safety.

Internationally the International Atomic Energy Agency "works for the safe, secure and peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology."

Contents 1 Key concepts 2 Concerns 3 Risk assessment 4 Enforcement organisations 5 Lists of nuclear accidents

[edit] Key concepts

• Safety culture
• Redundancy
• Passive nuclear safety
• Active safety
• Defence in depth
• Containment building
• Ionising radiation protection

[edit] Concerns

• Radioactive contamination
• Radioactive waste
• Loss-of-coolant accident (LOCA)
• Nuclear meltdown

[edit] Risk assessment

• International Nuclear Events Scale
• Probabilistic risk assessment
  • Severe Accident Risks: An Assessment for Five U.S. Nuclear Power Plants NUREG-1150 1991
  • Calculation of Reactor Accident Consequences CRAC-II 1982
  • Rasmussen Report: Reactor Safety Study WASH-1400 1975
  • The Brookhaven Report: Theoretical Possibilities and Consequences of Major Accidents in Large Nuclear Power Plants WASH-740 1957

[edit] Enforcement organisations

• International Atomic Energy Agency
  • International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group
• United States Atomic Energy Commission
  • Nuclear Regulatory Commission (U.S.A)
• Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
• Autorité de sûreté nucléaire, the French nuclear safety authority
• Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland
• Federal Atomic Energy Agency in Russia
• Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority of Finland.

[edit] Lists of nuclear accidents

• List of civilian nuclear accidents
• List of civilian radiation accidents
• List of military nuclear accidentsfi:Ydinturvallisuus

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