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Manufacturing a Nuclear Future
Monday 06 February 2012
The Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) is the trade association and representative voice of Britain's civil nuclear industry. It represents more than 270 companies and some 59,000 UK nuclear workers. The NIA supports the commercial interests of its member as part of a diverse energy mix for the UK including renewables, clean coal and gas, with nuclear at the heart of a low-carbon future.

Joint Regulators' e-Bulletin August 2010

New Nuclear Power Station Assessment

The Health and Safety Executive and the Environment Agency are working together to make sure that any new nuclear power stations built in the UK will meet high standards of safety, security, environmental protection and waste management. We are currently assessing two new nuclear reactor designs.

1. GENERIC DESIGN ASSESSMENT (GDA) 2ND HSE/ENVIRONMENT AGENCY QUARTER REPORT FOR 2010(APRIL - JUNE).

Kevin Allars, Director of New Build GDA at the HSE, and Joe McHugh, Head of Radioactive Substances Regulation at the Environment Agency, have today published the second Quarterly Report for 2010 (April-June). This provides an update on our work to assess the safety cases for the new nuclear power station designs and looks at the key challenges ahead.

Progress continues on the assessment, and we are signalling that some GDA work may be required by the Requesting Parties beyond June 2011, when we plan to complete our assessment of the reactor design safety cases. We are flagging up these issues, so that the Requesting Parties can either redouble their efforts to address them, or begin the process of developing credible Resolution Plans.

However, we have identified no issues so far that we believe cannot be resolved, and there is still time before June 2011 for the Requesting Parties to fully address our concerns. We remain confident that a meaningful assessment will be completed by June 2011. 

You can view the report at: http://www.hse.gov.uk/newreactors/quarterly-updates.htm?ebul=newreactor/25-Aug-2010&cr=1

2.ENVIRONMENT AGENCY CONSULTATION ON ITS "GENERIC DESIGN ASSESSMENT" (GDA) FINDINGS SO FAR FOR TWO NEW NUCLEAR POWER STATION DESIGNS CONTINUES.

The consultation seeks views on the Environment Agency's preliminary conclusions following its detailed assessment so far of the EDF and AREVA UK EPR and Westinghouse AP1000 new nuclear plant designs.

The Environment Agency will carefully consider respondents' views in reaching its decision on whether to issue a statement of design acceptability.

The 16 week consultation began on 28 June 2010 and will close on 18 October 2010. Responses should arrive by 18 October 2010.

For further information visit: https://consult.environment-agency.gov.uk/portal/ho/nuclear/gda 

 
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