Dear Colleagues,
You are
cordially invited to submit or recommend articles to the International
Nuclear Safety Journal (INSJ), which is a peer-reviewed open access
journal (http://insj.info).
The articles for the special issue on the 5 years anniversary of the
Fukushima Daiichi accident may include review papers and original,
unpublished research papers related to this specific theme.
The following list of potential topics is provided to stimulate ideas.
Authors are not restricted to this list, but submissions must provide
relevant and practical insights related to the use of lessons learned
from the Fukushima Daiichi accident and insights into the accident, its
progression and current facility status, including topics such as:
- Special reviews performed after the accident, including the European “stress tests”
- New regulatory requirements and approaches; revised safety goals and reference levels
- Human and organizational factors
- Safety culture in the organizations constructing and operating nuclear installations;
- Protection against extreme external events
- Defense-in-depth philosophy and design upgrades
- Revisions to design and beyond design basis accident scenarios; treatment of design extension conditions
- Accident management strategies, including NEI's FLEX strategy and French hard core concepts
- Improvements in the training programs
- Emergency preparedness and response; improvements in the conduct of emergency exercises
- Environmental remediation
- New knowledge regarding the core damage assessments and accident sequence and plant damage
- Assessments of seismic damage and their contribution to the accident
- Radiological characterizations of the Fukushima Daiichi units
- Decontamination efforts
- Onsite and offsite dose assessments
- Current radiological status
- Nuclear safety research
- Risk communication
- Regulatory strategies and action plans; implications for safety culture in the regulatory authorities.
The articles are expected to be submitted online through our electronic submission system on the INSJ website.
Please register (http://nuclearsafety.info/international-nuclear-safety-journal/index.php/INSJ/user/register) and submit your article (http://nuclearsafety.info/international-nuclear-safety-journal/index.php/INSJ/author/submit/1)
The Editorial Board consists of distinguished professionals from around
the world and we select subject-matter experts to conduct the reviews.
Both the publication and the access to the articles are free of any
charge. This ensures that your articles will reach a very wide audience.
You have the opportunity to contribute with your knowledge
and experience to the promotion of a healthy nuclear safety culture at
international level, by showing how you have made use of the lessons
learned from the Fukushima Daiichi accident to improve nuclear safety in
your area of activity.
The special issue is due to be published in March 2016.
Deadline for submission of papers: November 30, 2015
J. J. Bevelacqua, Editor of the Special Issue
Madalina Tronea, Editor-in-Chief
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