Second International Generic Ageing Lessons Learned Phase 7 Steering Committee Meeting

Background

In 2010, Member States launched an extrabudgetary programme known as the International Generic Ageing Lessons Learned (IGALL) programme with the objective of developing a general framework for effectively collecting experience and lessons learned on nuclear power plant (NPP) ageing management. The IGALL programme facilitates the exchange of experience accumulated in Member States that have operating NPPs, with regard to the identification, establishment, implementation and improvement of ageing management programmes (AMPs), taking into account the lessons learned worldwide for various types of reactors, in order to assist Member States in implementing effective and harmonized ageing management.

Phase 1 of the IGALL programme was conducted from 2010–2013 and resulted in the development of an IAEA publication entitled Ageing Management for Nuclear Power Plants: International Generic Ageing Lessons Learned (IGALL) (Safety Reports Series No. 82, IAEA, Vienna, 2015).

Further development of the IGALL Safety Report and the associated database continued from:

• 2014–2015 as IGALL Phase 2,
• 2016–2017 as IGALL Phase 3,
• 2018-2019 as IGALL Phase 4,
• 2020–2021 as IGALL Phase 5 and
• 2022-2023 as IGALL Phase 6.

Among IGALL Phase 7 tasks, in addition to collecting practices for new AMPSs and updating existing AMPs and time-limited ageing analyses (TLAAs), the most substantial ones are: performing a full consistency check of the AMR Table and developing a specification for a new IGALL database to contain the AMR lines, discuss practices for the identification and documentation of structures, systems and components not important to safety affecting the function of an SSC important to safety and continuing to develop documents on regulatory practices for ageing management programme review.

Objectives

This second meeting of the Steering Committee for Phase 7 of the IGALL Programme has the following primary objectives:

1. To review the progress achieved by the Working Groups in the programme and to complete and close Phase 7;
2. To review and approve the results of the Working Groups;
3. To review and approve the use of the new IGALL database;
4. To ensure that the Working Groups identify gaps and overlaps by exchanging information on related work already under way or planned, in order to avoid duplication of effort;
5. To identify activities that will enhance, update and improve the IGALL programme
6. To identify activities that will promote the understanding and use of the findings from the programme, and help prioritize those activities;
7. To ensure consistent quality, format, scope and level of information details in IGALL products;
8. To identify the need for follow-up activities to enhance tools for ageing management; and
9. To discuss the proposals, prioritize and approve the task list for Phase 8.

Target Audience

Member States with operating nuclear power plants participating in the IGALL programme are invited to the meeting.

Participation

All persons wishing to participate in the event must be designated by an IAEA Member State or should be members of organizations that have been invited to attend.

In order to be designated by an IAEA Member State, participants are requested to send the Participation Form (Form A) to their competent national authority (e.g. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Permanent Mission to the IAEA or National Atomic Energy Authority) for onward transmission to the IAEA by 1 October 2025. Participants who are members of an organization invited to attend are requested to send the Participation Form (Form A) through their organization to the IAEA by above deadline.

Selected participants will be informed in due course on the procedures to be followed with regard to administrative and financial matters.

Venue

The event will be held at the Vienna International Centre (VIC) where the IAEA’s Headquarters are located. Participants must make their own travel and accommodation arrangements.