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Concerning seismic safety, the nuclear-engineering community has confidence that, if a large nuclear power plant (NPP) is designed and operated using approaches that have been recognized internationally as acceptable, then the NPP will be able to withstand large earthquakes safely. This presentation will explain why this confidence exists. It will explain how the design process, followed up by appropriate construction, operation, and maintenance, accomplishes two objectives: the design not only must be adequately safe but it must be transparently so when reviewed by an outside expert or a government regulatory agency. The emphasis of the presentation will be to explain how the design- construction-operation- regulation system, with many aspects working in a coordinated way, accomplishes these objectives. The success of this complex system depends on both excellence in science and engineering and excellence in the administrative, personnel, inspection, and regulation aspects.
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