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In February, the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) will be holding a forum for communities neighbouring Sizewell A and B to hear from inspectors with responsibility for regulating safety at the nuclear power plants.
Posts are available within the Office for Nuclear Regulation ONR across various disciplines. Closing date 6th February 2011.
The strategy and plan sets out the Office for Nuclear Regulation ONR Board’s broad medium to long term vision for the direction it wants the organisation to take.
The Office for Nuclear Regulation and the Environment Agency have recently published two reports on work relating to possible disposal of most of the UK’s higher activity radioactive waste in a geological disposal facility deep underground.
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As part of its programme of community briefings on the response to the Fukushima event, the Office for Nuclear Regulation is holding a session in the evening of Wednesday 25 January.
The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) today published its National Report to the EU outlining its review of the stress test programme undertaken by the industry following the events at Fukushima last year.
Generic designs for two nuclear reactors proposed for construction in the UK have been granted interim design acceptance by the independent nuclear safety, security and environment regulators.
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A consultation workshop on ‘Bulk Quantities’ of radioactive matter took place on 24 October 2011, allowing consultees the opportunity to ask ONR any questions of clarification before responding formally.
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A statement on incidents at nuclear installations in Britain, which meet Ministerial Reporting Criteria (MRC), is provided to the Secretary of State for the Department of Energy and Climate Change and the Secretary of State for Scotland, and is published each quarter by the Office for Nuclear Regulation ONR, an Agency of HSE.
The Office for Nuclear Regulation ONR received all stress test reports from licensees of UK power plants by the required date of 31 October.
