Safety is an absolute priority for nuclear power, to be guaranteed at every stage: from the projects to the construction of the plant, from operations to final decommissioning. In fact, nuclear plants are the most controlled sites in the world.
Safety systems – that are simple, multiply and diversified – constantly verify the reactor’s capacity and the fuel’s cooling process, thus avoiding serious accidents, reducing the effects of any event that could occur, and in all cases avoiding the release of radioactive material outside the plant.
Safety is essentially based on two principles:
- Defence in depth, i.e. safety structured in several levels.
- Redundancy and separation, i.e. the repetition and diversification of adopted safety systems
