To help assess countries capability in nuclear safety and performance of risk assessment.

Achievements in 2008

Philippines: Establishment of limitations and controls on effluent discharges and associated regulatory review and control. Training and appraisal of the situation in the countries of the Asian Nuclear Safety Network: China, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Philippines and Malaysia

Tajikistan and Uzbekistan: Assessment of doses from exposures to elevated levels of natural radionuclides in areas close to uranium tailings.

Ukraine: Perform training in risk assessment tools.

Achievements in 2007

Malaysia and Indonesia: Perform training course in safety assessment.

Jordan: Participation of Facilia in an expert mission to evaluate the planning and environmental assessment of a national storage facility.

Sponsorship

International Atomic Energy Agency, Swedish Department of International Co-operation.