OSART Guidelines

The IAEA’s Operational Safety Review Team (OSART) programme has provided advice and assistance to Member States for 20 years to enhance the safety of nuclear power plants during construction, commissioning and operation. OSART has been and will be utilized to collect and share current best safety practices in nuclear power plants worldwide, to collect practical feedback to the safety standards, to promote appropriate application of the safety standards to nuclear power plants and to introduce OSART methodology for the nuclear industries to establish their own self-assessment programmes. A revision of this publication was published (see IAEA Services Series No. 12 (Rev. 1).