Health and Safety
Executive / Commission
Nuclear
LLC reports
This report is issued as part of the Health and Safety Executive's commitment to make information about inspection and regulatory activities relating to the above site available to the public. It is for distribution to members of the Amersham plc, Grove Centre Local Liaison Committee (LLC) and covers activities associated with the regulation of safety at the site. These reports are distributed quarterly. Site Inspectors of HM Nuclear Installations Inspectorate attend LLC meetings and will be happy to respond to questions raised there by members of the LLC. Any other person wishing to inquire about matters covered by this report should contact the HSE, Nuclear Directorate Information Centre on 0151 - 951 - 4103.
Visits by the NII to the Grove Centre site were made on 10 - 11 January, 26 - 27 February and 11 - 12 March 2002.
As mentioned in the July-September 2001 quarterly report the NII is discussing with Amersham the out of hours aspects of its emergency arrangements. The site inspector observed an out of hours training exercise in February and identified a number of areas requiring improvement e.g. arrangements for liaising with the external fire brigade when they arrive on site. Amersham is putting forward a programme of work to address the issues.
Inspection visits have been undertaken to look at progress being made with the decommissioning of Labs 1 and 2 and D bench. Good progress continues to be made with the post operation clean out of plants in Labs 1 and 2 prior to the start of decommissioning. Good progress is also being made in decommissioning D bench with the manual phase of the project having almost been completed. Worker doses have been kept to levels below that stipulated in the safety documentation.
Routine inspection of plant was carried out to the inspection plan and covered the following areas, control of nuclear material, storage of radium waste, operating instructions and B20 operations.
A meeting was held with the Environment Agency inspector to discuss areas of mutual interest regarding Amersham's application for a variation to the Grove Centre discharge authorisation.
No statutory reportable radiological incidents have been notified to the NII this quarter.
No legal instruments were issued during the quarter.
Published on the HSE web site 16July 2002