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 Site Stakeholder Group (SSG) and covers activities associated with the regulation of safety at Dungeness B Nuclear Power Station. These reports are distributed quarterly and are available on the HSE web site (www.hse.gov.uk/nuclear/llc/index.htm). Site Inspectors of HM Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (part of the Health and Safety Executive's Nuclear Directorate) attend SSG meetings and will be happy to respond to questions raised there by members of the SSG. 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.
Nuclear Directorate
Health and Safety Executive
St Peter’s House
Balliol Road
Bootle
Merseyside
L20 3LZ
1. The Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII) Site Inspector visited Dungeness B on the following dates during the quarter covered by this report:
2. On 12 and 13 April, the station was visited by NII’s Superintending Inspector with responsibility for overseeing the regulation of nuclear safety at Dungeness B and a number of other nuclear power stations.
3.
Other NII inspectors with specialist technical expertise also visited
Dungeness B and other British Energy establishments during the period to support the Site Inspector by performing inspections on specific aspects of the Licensee’s arrangements and nuclear safety case.
4. Compliance Inspections: Routine planned inspections are carried out throughout the year and enable NII to judge whether a Licensee is complying with the conditions attached to the Nuclear Site Licence, the Ionising Radiations Regulations, and other relevant statutory provisions on a sampling basis. NII was generally content that Dungeness B had shown satisfactory compliance.
5. Emergency Arrangements: An NII team witnessed the Licensee’s annual “Level 1” demonstration emergency exercise on the evening of 12 April. The NII team concluded that, whilst many aspects were satisfactory, deficiencies at two key locations prevented the exercise from providing an adequate demonstration of the Licensee’s emergency arrangements. The Licensee has been asked to review and to revise, as necessary, relevant aspects of their arrangements, provide relevant training and arrange a further demonstration within 8 months. This has been scheduled for late July 2005.
6. 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.
7. 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 procedure, NII issued the following documents under Site Licence No. 61 during the reporting period: