The Office for Nuclear Regulation is planning to recruit 40 nuclear safety inspectors in each of the next two years, to give them the resources they need to regulate the nuclear industry and its increasing activities. From 23 February, the new safety inspector vacancies will go live and candidates w…
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UK nuclear power stations - 'stress test' progress report
The UK’s nuclear power stations have all started ‘stress tests’ as part of an agreement to test all such facilities across Europe, the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) confirms today.
Following the nuclear accident at Fukushima in Japan, every nuclear power generating country in Europe…
UK nuclear regulator publishes five-year plan
The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has published its Corporate Plan setting out its strategic intentions over the next five years and explaining how these will be resourced.
In the foreword of the plan, by Nick Baldwin (Chair of ONR) and Mike Weightman (HM Chief Inspector of Nuclear Installatio…
New UK nuclear industry regulator launched
Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) has been established as an agency of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), pending planned legislation to establish it as a statutory body. The ONR will bring together the relevant nuclear regulatory functions of HSE (through its Nuclear Directorate) and the Depa…
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