Regional-Educational-Workshops

  SMR Regulators' Forum

Educational workshops are conducted by the Forum at least once a year. The main objectives of these workshops are dissemination of Forum's findings and capacity-building with respect to SMR regulation. These workshops also serve as an opportunity to stimulate exchange of information and experience between participants and lecturers from the Forum and from the IAEA, and, even more importantly, among the participants themselves. They are primarily targeted at regulatory bodies of countries embarking on a nuclear power programme or those expanding their nuclear power programmes and considering deployment of SMRs.

Educational Workshop in Sidney – 18 November 2022 (Photo: IAEA)

The programme for the workshops cover, inter alia, the following issues:

• Overview of SMR technologies;
• SMR areas of novelty and associated regulatory challenges;
• Design and Safety Analysis for SMRs;
• SMR related licensing challenges and regulatory cooperation;
• SMR related manufacturing, construction, commissioning, and operation issues;
• IAEA Initiatives on SMRs safety and regulation.

In addition to lectures delivered by the SMR RF experts and the SMR RF Scientific Secretariat, the participants are invited to make presentations on nuclear programmes in their countries to contribute to the sharing of information and experience with respect to the organization of their regulatory bodies and relevant regulatory frameworks, main regulatory challenges and prospects for/status of SMR deployment.