Codes and Standards Workshop in Jakarta, Indonesia

October 16th, 2013 — 

The NRC/IRDP conducted a Codes and Standards Workshop for BAPETEN – the nuclear regulatory body of Indonesia – in Jakarta, Indonesia from October 7 to 11, 2013. The Workshop addressed the following topics: Introduction to codes and standards, NRC regulations related to codes and standards, Mechanical codes and standards, Instrumentation and Control and Electrical codes and standards, and Civil/Structural codes and standards. The Workshop emphasized the importance of codes and standards when performing regulatory reviews and inspections of nuclear facilities, during the siting phase, the construction phase, and the operation phase. This Workshop’s uniqueness is the focus on those codes and standards that are important to nuclear regulators. The Workshop was conducted by Gene Imbro, David Squarer, and Weidong He of AdSTM, and was attended by 13 participants from BAPETEN and one participant from BATAN (Indonesia’s promoter of nuclear energy).