Security of Advanced Reactors

This report provides a high-level perspective of the international instruments, standards and guidance that influence national laws and regulations governing the deployment of advanced reactors in different States. The report also reviews the specific security considerations and challenges of the various reactor designs in meeting regulatory requirements and concludes with an overview of security by design methodologies that could be adopted by advanced reactor developers. In addition, the report offers a series of five recommendations to help developers, regulators and other stakeholders to incorporate security by design and move forward with a successful licensing process.