China's National Energy Administration in Beijing launched a new round of safety
and quality improvement actions for the nuclear power sector, instructing units
to consolidate prior gains and raise safety-quality management to support
high-quality nuclear development. Directives prioritize upstream/source
governance, accelerated design standardization, wider adoption of modular
construction and deployment of smart construction sites to upgrade nuclear
engineering quality management. The NEA singled out commissioning and
operational safety of new reactor types, reliability of nuclear fuel assemblies
and strengthening of nuclear power operational technical service systems as key
focus areas to ensure unit safety. Non-nuclear safety risks are to be jointly
assessed and controlled with nuclear safety risks. The agency ordered stronger
interdepartmental communication and coordination on the basis of existing
mechanisms, and tighter supervision, performance assessment and follow-up
enforcement.
