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Safety reassessments undertaken at UK nuclear power stations in the light of events at Fukushima Dai-ichi have revealed no fundamental weaknesses, but lessons have been learnt and safety enhancements made.
Read the ONR press release on EC stress tests.
From 1 January 2012, new incident reporting arrangements will be in place for licensees and other dutyholders reporting incidents to ONR.
For further details, see our Guidance for Notifying and Reporting Incidents and Events to ONR.
ONR and Environment Agency have undertaken a regulatory review of the Nuclear Decommissioning Agency's (NDA) Radioactive Waste Management Directorate (RWMD) generic Disposal System Safety Case (gDSSC). The NDA's RMWD published the gDSSC in February as part of its responsibilities to implement geological disposal of higher activity radioactive wastes.
Fukushima and the UK nuclear industry