Dominique Stump
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has partnered with the International Atomic Energy Agency to develop standards and share best practices for nuclear safety and energy.
IEEE said Thursday the Practical Arrangement agreement establishes a platform for the two organizations to avoid duplication and conflicts between the groups’ technical publications.
“Safety is an overriding concern in the nuclear energy field, where standardization and document development tied to instrumentation and control systems, electrical equipment, computer processing systems, as well as human factors, all need to be addressed to protect both the public and those individuals working in the field,” said Konstantinos Karachalios, managing director of IEEE Standards Association.
The IAEA’s nuclear energy and nuclear safety and security departments worked with IEEE to create a nuclear energy series and safety guide on nuclear facility accident monitoring systems after the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi incident in Japan.
