Regional Basic Professional Training Course in Korea

Regional Basic Professional Training Course (BPTC) on Nuclear Safety
aimed at the public were carried out by raising the positive recognition and by collecting
constructive opinions. We held a demonstration of the cyber system on demand basis
since 2003. The locations were elementary and junior high schools, hospitals and
autonomous monitoring organization of NPP sites, and science exhibitions and related
events.
1.3.2. Future Plan
(a) Build‐up a Brand‐new Bridge
The NSIC was assigned the role as a bridge between the KINS and the local inhabitants
of NPP sites in June of this year. The three main jobs of the KINS are safety review,
safety inspection, and safety research on nuclear facilities. And various types of requests
from the local inhabitants are as follows: request of safety information, request of
interview, phone calls, request of explanation on safety issues, participation or monitoring
of safety regulation, and request of education, and so on. The various requests need
efficient and effective management because we have limited resources. Sometimes there
existed confusions because of misunderstanding the counterpart each other. Therefore in
order to manage requests and responses efficiently, the NSIC should carefully link the
outside requests from various groups of people with the staffs of the KINS. The
representative case is that the NSIC hold the public meetings between the local
inhabitants and the KINS twice in a year. The meeting covers the general and site specific
safety issues which are basically requested from the local inhabitants.
(b) Outreaches of Information Disclosure
The demands of public are changed from time to time and the intensities are gradually
increased since the establishment of the NSIC in 2002. We tried to meet public’s
expectations on nuclear safety and/or related information as long as our identities as a
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