en.Wedoany.com Reported - Recently, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment released the ecological environment standards "General Guidelines for Nuclear Safety Culture Construction" (HJ1475-2026, hereinafter referred to as the "Construction Guidelines") and "Implementation Guidelines for Nuclear Safety Culture Assessment" (HJ1476-2026, hereinafter referred to as the "Assessment Guidelines"), both of which will take effect on August 15, 2026. To facilitate an accurate understanding of the standards' connotations and implementation requirements, the responsible official of the Nuclear Facility Safety Regulation Department of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment answered the following questions regarding the background and purpose, key content, and implementation considerations of the two standards.
Q: What are the background and purpose of formulating these two standards?
A: Nuclear safety culture, as the sum of values, codes of conduct, and characteristics that organizations and individuals reach consensus on and put into practice, emphasizes placing nuclear safety at the highest priority and integrating it throughout all aspects and processes of nuclear safety concepts, systems, environments, and behaviors. It serves as a crucial foundation for ensuring the safe, healthy, and sustainable development of nuclear energy and nuclear technology utilization.
To implement the statutory requirements of the "Nuclear Safety Law of the People's Republic of China," such as "establishing a mechanism for cultivating nuclear safety culture," fully absorb international good practices, and systematically summarize the practical achievements of China's nuclear safety culture construction since the release of the "Nuclear Safety Culture Policy Statement" and "Nuclear Safety Culture Characteristics," our department formulated the "Construction Guidelines" and "Assessment Guidelines." These aim to further guide and promote the industry's nuclear safety culture construction and assessment efforts, continuously enhance the industry's nuclear safety culture level, strengthen the nuclear safety defense line, and promote the achievement of high-level nuclear safety.
Q: What are the main contents of the two standards?
A: The "Construction Guidelines" focus on the objectives, tasks, paths, and methods of nuclear safety culture construction, while the "Assessment Guidelines" emphasize how to accurately identify weak links in nuclear safety culture and achieve continuous improvement. Together, they form a complete closed loop for cultivating, constructing, evaluating, and improving nuclear safety culture, ensuring direction in construction, basis in assessment, and leverage in improvement.
The main contents of the "Construction Guidelines" include: First, clarifying construction objectives—through systematic nuclear safety culture construction, establish a rigorous nuclear safety responsibility system, continuously improve the nuclear safety management system, identify and effectively eliminate nuclear safety hazards, and make maintaining nuclear safety a shared consensus and conscious action among all industry practitioners; Second, clarifying construction elements—fully absorbing international research results and China's practical experience, proposing 8 basic elements, and breaking them down into several sub-elements to enrich the connotation of construction; Third, clarifying the construction process—stipulating organizational implementation work from aspects such as consolidating construction responsibilities, formulating plans and schedules, conducting training and publicity, and implementing evaluation and improvement. Additionally, specific manifestations of good nuclear safety culture are summarized in an appendix.
The main contents of the "Assessment Guidelines" include: First, clarifying assessment objectives—adhering to a problem-oriented approach, thoroughly investigating deviations and weak links in nuclear safety culture, and promoting continuous improvement and enhancement; Second, clarifying assessment priorities—against the basic elements and sub-elements specified in the "Construction Guidelines," defining assessment content and priorities, and providing corresponding assessment methods such as questionnaire surveys, document reviews, personnel interviews, and behavior observations; Third, clarifying the assessment process—defining process requirements for assessment initiation, assessment preparation, on-site assessment, and improvement implementation. Additionally, specific assessment method guidance is provided in an appendix.
Furthermore, both standards specify that construction and assessment should be carried out based on practical conditions and local circumstances, combining industry characteristics and actual situations to ensure tangible results.
Q: How will the implementation of these two standards be ensured?
A: To promote the implementation of the standards, efforts will focus on three aspects: First, strengthening publicity and interpretation. In conjunction with regulatory work arrangements, conduct multi-channel and multi-form publicity, interpretation, and training on the standards to enhance the industry's understanding and execution capabilities regarding the standard provisions. Second, strengthening supervision and guidance. Regularly urge industry entities to fulfill their primary responsibilities, and take the implementation of the two standards as an opportunity to continuously improve the level of nuclear safety culture. Third, strengthening dynamic improvement. Track and assess the implementation status of the standards, promptly coordinate and resolve issues encountered during application, summarize and promote excellent practical practices, and form an endogenous driving force for continuous improvement and long-term enhancement.
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