HSE
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.
HSE have published the most recent Project assessment reports PAR for Oldbury, Sellafield and Capenhurst.
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HSE job vacancy details are now available for posts within the Office for Nuclear Regulation.
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British Energy has requested permission from HSE Nuclear Directorate to enter the oxygen injection systems installed at Heysham 2 from commissioning into routine operations under a consolidated safety case.
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HSE Nuclear Directorate (ND) has completed a re-licensing assessment in order to facilitate the reunification of Magnox North and Magnox South into one entity, Magnox Limited.
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Three members of staff currently employed by HSE’s Nuclear Directorate are there on secondment from industry and two more will join in the next couple of months.
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British Energy, the licensee of Heysham 1, has requested permission from HSE Nuclear Directorate (ND) to replace the existing GCSTUs with modern equivalent equipment.
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Should a major nuclear incident happen in the UK, the HSE industry regulator would set in motion its well-practiced plans for responding to a crisis.
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Three nuclear regulatory bodies in England and Wales are working together as proposals progress to dispose of radioactive waste in a facility deep underground.
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On Friday 12 November, HSE’s Nuclear Directorate informed EDF and AREVA that it has closed the Regulatory Issue (RI) placed on the proposed Control & Instrumentation system for the European Pressurized Water Reactor (EPR).
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