Risk Informed Approaches for Plant Life Management: Regulatory and Industry Perspectives

The paper gives an overview of recent developments in the field of risk informed approaches for various applications at nuclear power plants. After that it discusses how the regulatory oversight is expected to change with an application of risk informed approaches. Based on this discussion the pa-per expands in a consideration of challenges that are connected to a further development of risk in-formed approaches for plant life management. A conclusion of the paper is that the safety of nuclear power also in the future will rely on both deterministic and probabilistic thinking.