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Directions for Strengthening the Agency'sAssistance to Countries Considering or

Introducing Nuclear Power

Technical Meeting/Workshop on:

TOPICAL ISSUES ON INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT:MANAGING THE DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR

NUCLEAR POWERVienna, 9-12 February 2010

A. Mc DonaldProgram Liaison Officer

IAEAa.mcdonald@iaea.org

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Background

• Rising expectations

• Increase in countries considering or introducing nuclear power

• Growing demand for Agency services

• Should they be expanded?• More of the same?

• New services?

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Background

• Paper intended to structure the possibilities for possible discussion by• Member States

• Others

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3 service categories

• Capacity building• (including training, guidance, information and support networks) to

strengthen the basis for well informed national decisions and choices among technologies, technology providers and service providers

• Peer reviews • to provide assessments and assurance regarding the quality and

comprehensiveness of a State’s preparations for a nuclear power programme

• Direct assistance • with specific implementation tasks, including management of

projects in limited specific areas

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4 customer categories

• Governments

• Utilities

• Mining undertakings and companies

• Research reactor organizations

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Challenges

• Assuring timely response• Staffing (recruiting competition)

• In-house• External experts

• Funding (customer, extra-budgetary, regular budget, combinations)

• Agency features• Services at cost, independent

• Expansion needs study of legal, financial and practical obligations

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Outcome of a meeting held 8 February

• Conclusion• Agency should provide broad assistance in

phase 1

• Agency should be careful about direct assistance in phase 2 and beyond

• 10 recommendations

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10 recommendations

1. Develop policy statement on services to be offered

2. Better define “services” and “direct assistance”

3. Consider “programme management” from perspective of developing NP programme: consider senior executive course.

4. Develop standard pre-feasibility and feasibility study definition

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10 recommendations

5. Develop evaluation of industry

6. On bid evaluation, limit Agency service to process

7. On finance, need dedicated consultancy and be very careful beyond phase 1

8. Avoid conflict of interest on peer review and direct assistance

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10 recommendations

9. Develop a peer review service for workforce planning

10.For “direct assistance”, consider two options

• Direct consultant provider

• Clearinghouse

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