FANR presents 3rd national nuclear safety report to IAEA

ABU DHABI / WAM

The Federal Authority for Nuclear Regulation (FANR) on Tuesday presented the UAE’s third national report to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), as part of the nation’s participation in the Seventh Review Meeting of the Contracting Parties (CPs) to the Convention on Nuclear Safety (CNS) set to take place from March 27 to April 7, 2017, at IAEA headquarters in Vienna.
The UAE’s national report describes how the UAE has met its obligations to the convention as the state has made progress in constructing its first nuclear power plant at Barakah in the Western Region of Abu Dhabi. The report includes an update to the lessons learned from the 2011 accident at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station and the measures taken in the UAE to prevent a similar incident. The report also describes the preparations underway to prepare for the first nuclear reactor to begin operations, currently expected in early 2017, pending FANR’s regulatory review.
The report is the result of a collective effort of key national organisations including FANR, the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation, the National Emergency Crisis and Disasters Management Authority and other leading UAE institutions.
The report is now available to all 78 CNS contracting parties, who can review it and submit written questions to the UAE, which will in turn provide replies in advance of the 7th review
meeting.