Background

The Safety Aspects of Long Term Operation (SALTO) peer review service was launched in 2005. It was designed to assist operating organizations in adopting a proper approach to ageing management and preparation for safe long term operation (LTO) of NPPs. It can also identify gaps in national regulations for ageing management and LTO of NPPs. Repetitive requests of NPPs to add a new review area of ‘Human resources, competency and knowledge management for LTO’ led to revision of the SALTO Guidelines in January 2014. Since then, they have been used for increasing number of SALTO missions, workshops and seminars for both NPPs and regulatory authorities. SALTO missions increased from 1-2 per year in the period of 2007-2011 to 6-9 per year in the period of 2016-2019.

Objectives of the Technical Meeting

The meeting has the following primary objectives:

• To discuss the results of SALTO reviews (which includes SALTO peer review missions, LTO modules of OSART missions, and expert missions conducted on the basis of the SALTO Guidelines) performed between 2016 and 2020;
• To provide information on the status of LTO preparations in participating Member States;
• To share lessons learned from SALTO reviews with operators and regulators from Member States that have not yet requested SALTO reviews;
• To share the findings of the IAEA’s analysis of the results of SALTO reviews; and
• To collect Member States’ suggestions for improvement of the SALTO peer review programme.

Target Audience

Participation is solicited from staff members of regulatory bodies, NPP operators, utility organizations, design and engineering consultant organizations, as well as from international organizations engaged in activities related to NPP safety and regulation. To ensure maximum effectiveness in the exchange of information, participants should be persons actively involved in the subject of the meeting.

The meeting is, in principle, open to all officially designated persons. The IAEA, however, reserves the right to restrict participation due to limitations imposed by the available facilities. It is, therefore, recommended that interested persons take the necessary steps for the official designation as early as possible.

Venue

This event has been changed to entirely virtual platform.? Virtual participants will receive an MS Teams meeting link 5 days before the meeting start date.
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