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 Dungeness Local Community Liaison Council and covers activities associated with the regulation of safety at Dungeness B Nuclear Power Station. These reports are distributed quarterly. Site Inspectors of HM Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (part of the Health and Safety Executive's Nuclear Directorate) attend LCLC meetings and will be happy to respond to any questions raised there by members of the LCLC. Any other person wishing to inquire about matters covered by this report should contact the HSE's Nuclear Directorate Information Centre on 0151 951 4103.
1. The Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII) Site Inspector and/or his assistant visited Dungeness 'B' on the following dates during the quarter covered by this report:
1 and 21 - 24 October,2. Other NII inspectors with specialist technical expertise also visited site during the period so as to support the Site Inspector by performing inspections on licence condition compliance and compliance with the power station's nuclear safety case.
3. Compliance Inspections: During the visits listed above the Site Inspector, and assistants, carried out planned inspections of the licensee's compliance with: (i) the conditions attached to the Site Licence; (ii) the Ionising Radiations Regulations; and (iii) other relevant health and safety legislation.
4. Emergency Arrangements: An Exercise Review meeting took place on 15 December so as to consider what had been learnt from previous emergency exercises and to agree the basic scenario for the 2003 exercise.
5. Outages: There was enhanced NII presence at site during the Unit 22 outage. The Unit 22 Start-Up meeting took place on 1 October and the Inspectorate, on behalf of HSE, issued a formal consent to start-up Reactor 22 on 18 October. BEGL is planning to commence a Unit 21 outage early in 2003; the Unit 21 Outage Intentions meeting took place on 9 December 2002. At the meeting the Inspectorate agreed the planned safety related components of the proposed outage.
6. Local Community Liaison Committee: The Site Inspector attended the LCLC meeting on 22 October.
7. Incidents on Site: As part of routine, planned inspections the Site Inspector examined the licensee's arrangements for the recording and investigation of incidents at the power station and, where appropriate, undertook independent investigations to the extent that was warranted by the significance of the incident.
8. The NII has powers within the standard Nuclear Site Licence Conditions to issue Consents, Approvals and Directions. In addition NII uses Licence Instruments to issue Specifications and Agreements under the conditions attached to the Licence. In accordance with formal regulatory procedures under Site Licence No. 61 the NII issued the following:
Approval No 13 was issued on 23 December 2002, approving the Dungeness B Preface to the Management of Change Schedule.
Consent No 6 was issued on 18 October 2002, giving consent to the start-up of Dungeness B Reactor No 22.
Published on the HSE web site 27 March 2003