- Office for Nuclear Regulation
- Our work
- Key operational programmes
- Civil nuclear reactors
Civil nuclear reactors
The Civil Nuclear Reactor Programme is headed by Acting Director, Andy Lindley. It exists to regulate safety at operating and defuelling civil nuclear power stations. There are eight operating advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) sites, one operating pressurised water reactor (PWR) site, one operating magnox reactor site and four defuelling magnox-class reactor sites.
Operating nuclear power stations
Sizewell B (PWR); Hinkley Point B (AGR); Dungeness B (AGR), Heysham 1 and Heysham 2 (AGR); Hartlepool (AGR); Hunterston B (AGR); and Torness (AGR), Wylfa (magnox).
- All PWR and AGR stations are owned and operated by the site licence company: EDF Energy Nuclear Generation
- Site licence company, Magnox Ltd operates Wylfa.
Defuelling nuclear power stations
Dungeness A (all magnox-class reactor sites: Oldbury; Chapelcross; Sizewell A)
The Decommissioning, Fuel and Waste programme covers other magnox reactor sites that have been defuelled, and are decommissioning.
- Site licence company Magnox Ltd operates all defuelling and decommissioning magnox-class stations. The sites are owned by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority on behalf of the Department for Energy and Climate Change.
Nuclear site licence conditions
Licensing Nuclear
Installations