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15. Operational Safety
Nuclear safety ‐ the Headquarter of KHNP is a centralized unique organization, and
KHNP must consequently define its nuclear safety policies as the corporate level.
In order to benefit from operating experience from these 20 units, KHNP’s corporate
resources are organized to systematically gather, review, and analyze operating
experience. This is accomplished by:
Collecting information on significant events that occurred and are documented by
the various KHNP sites;
Performing a second level analysis at corporate level, independent of the first level
event analysis performed by the site;
Working in close relationship with the site at which the significant event occurred
in determining proper corrective actions;
Ensuring that information concerning the event is distributed to others using the
appropriate communications channels;
Following up on corrective actions and implementation of recommendations.
Due to the fact that most events are detected by site personnel, it is necessary to remind
the site operating staff that the event detection phase is of primary importance. However
it is not good enough to document only the event. Information including the results of
analysis performed, decisions taken, and so on, must also be reported. This is why KHNP
has developed a data communication system that connects the corporate offices and all 4
sites. Using this system, it is possible for any of KHNP’s personnel to obtain information
on an incident that has previously occurred on another site, to obtain the results of the
analysis performed, and the corrective actions taken to avoid the repeat of a similar
problem.