Overview of the Application of the Specific Safety Requirements to BATAN Research Reactors

Abstract

BATAN owns and operates three research reactors for supporting R&D in nuclear science and technology, namely TRIGA-2000, 2MW, Kartini, 100 kW and RSG-GAS, 30 MW reactors. The reactors were built in 1965, 1979 and 1987 consecutively whenever the safety recommendations were based on IAEA Safety Series of that period of time. In 2016, IAEA has published a Safety Standard Series namely Specific Requirments for Research Reactor SSR-3. The aim of the paper is to demonstrate the applicability of this new requirements to the BATAN reactors by comparing those to the existing safety analysis reports. The results show that principally the the specific requirements in SSR-3 are applicable to the BATAN reactors although those reactors are classified as old reactors.