UK Technical Advisory Group on the Structural Integrity of High Integrity Plant: Overview of Recent Activities

TAGSI is an acronym for The UK Technical Advisory Group on the Structural Integrity of High Integrity Plant. The purpose of TAGSI is to address and make recommendations on issues raised by its sponsoring organisations in discussion with independent advisors. Collectively, these sponsoring organisations operate, maintain, assess and regulate nuclear power producing and chemical plant. Against this background, an overview is presented of the recent work of TAGSI in terms of structural integrity issues addressed, symposia organised, and output appearing in the open literature. Other papers at this conference describe some of the technical work of TAGSI in more detail.