Basic safety principles

The basic safety principles applicable to nuclear power plants have been well known for decades. They were first documented by the IAEA

International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group (INSAG, 1988) and were updated in 1999. In 2006, the IAEA published a broadly supported docu­ment entitled Fundamental Safety Principles (IAEA, 2006). These docu­ments stop short of defining the requirements of any specific power plant design, but do provide a prospective plant owner with all of the principles on which the modern world’s nuclear safety approaches are based.