Marsono Djoko Soebagijo; Badan Pengawas Tenaga Nuklir. The government .of Indonesia intended toestablishing the first Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in the country. It is widely known thatnuclear safety is something paramount in NPP operation. The safe operation ofNPP ispossible when Safety Standards and Codes, is applied in .each step' of NPPestablishment. This paper decribes in general the Standards and Codes developed byt~e US, by which this country operates hundreds of NPP safely .. Further, thispresentetiqn is aimed to convey to competent institutions in Indonesia the urgency ofSafety Standards and Codes to be available jar governing the establishment of NPP inIndonesia. The reason of choosing Standards and Codes developed by the Us as majorreference in preparing this paper is" in addition to the fact that the US is one of manycountries which develop and operate NPP, it administers admirably the Safety,Standards and Codesfor NPP establishment.
