Application of Nuclear Insurance Risk Survey Results in Nuclear Power Plant Safety Improvement Program

Abstract From the prospective of loss prevention, economic risk reduction and catastrophe risk reduction, nuclear insurance risk survey provides professional and foresighted safety improvement recommendations based on the international nuclear and insurance experience. As a common international risk management practice, nuclear insurers provide loss prevention evaluation services, which is considered as peer review by nuclear operators. With the development of Chinese insurance industry and increasing loss prevention demand from Chinese nuclear power plant, Chinese insurance industry gradually integrates international practice, and establishes a systematic, Chinese characterized nuclear insurance survey methodology. This thesis introduces insurance survey background and importance, analyses the areas in which insurance survey could support nuclear power risk management. This paper focuses on risk survey methodology and implementation plan based on insurance service practices, and analyses survey result trends. The methodology has been implemented in nuclear power risk management regime. Recent cases have verified the insurance survey could support nuclear power plant safety improvement. Besides, based on the current practice, this paper suggest the potential ways to improve the interface between insurance risk survey and nuclear power risk management, improve common risk and enhance survey effectiveness.