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Five nuclear sites have been subject to a ‘themed’ inspection carried out by the UK’s Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) during the last 12 months focusing on the management of ageing facilities. One of ONR’s key aims was to check that Britain has sustainable programmes for managing ageing nuclear facilities and ensuring licensees plan and respond to these inevitable changes....
On October 19, the UK’s Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) published its annual report detailing the performance of Great Britain’s nuclear industry during 2020/21. The Chief Nuclear Inspector, Mark Foy, reports that the industry has performed well overall and the required standards of safety, security and safeguards have been maintained....
In his first Annual Report on the UK’s nuclear industry, Chief Nuclear Inspector (CNI) Mark Foy said that although the sector had overall continued to meet the high standards of safety and security required to protect workers and the public, there remained room for improvement....
In its quarterly statement on serious incidents at nuclear installations in Britain, the UK’s Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has given details of a major CO2 leak on 16 March 2015 at EDF’s Heysham 1 nuclear power station in Lancashire. There was no immediate nuclear safety or radiological risk as a result of the event, the ONR said, but it nevertheless had serious implications....
The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has served Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL) with an Improvement Notice as a result of a fire at the sodium tank farm of the Prototype Fast Reactor (PFR) at its Caithness site in October 2014. No personnel were injured as a result of the fire which broke out in the early hours of the morning on 7 October 2014....
Horizon Nuclear Power has moved one step closer to deployment of the UK Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (UK ABWR) following confirmation from nuclear and environment regulators that the design has been cleared to move on to Step 3 of the Generic Design Assessment (GDA) process in September. The design will be used in nuclear power stations to be built at Wylfa in Anglesey and Oldbury in Gloucestershire....
A steam leak caused the shutdown of one of the turbines at the Wylfa nuclear power plant on Anglesey, operator Magnox Ltd said on July 4. A spokesperson for the company said no radioactivity had been released, the steam escape was not from the nuclear reactor and there were no injuries....
The £7 billion contract to decommission 12 major nuclear sites across the UK has been awarded to Cavendish Fluor Partnership (CFP), a joint venture between Babcock International subsidiary Cavendish Nuclear and US-based Fluor Corporation. CFP beat three other teams to the contract, including the current Magnox sites manager, EnergySolutions....
The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) is established today as a public corporation, under the Energy Act 2013. This is a significant milestone in its journey to become a modern, responsive, independent regulator. This change in status puts the UK independent regulator in a stronger position to fulfil its mission to provide efficient and effective regulation of the nuclear industry....
The Office for Nuclear Regulation has given permission to AWE to proceed further with the construction of a new facility at its Aldermaston site. This permission marks a significant milestone for AWE in its work to modernise and rebuild the facilities needed for the maintenance of Britain’s nuclear deterrent. ...