Contents

• Inspections
• Routine Matters
• Non Routine Matters
• Regulatory Activity

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Foreword

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 URENCO (Capenhurst) Ltd Local Liaison Committee and covers activities associated with the regulation of safety at the URENCO (Capenhurst) Ltd Nuclear Licensed Site. These reports are distributed quarterly. Site Inspectors of HM Nuclear Installations Inspectorate normally attend LLC meetings and will be happy to respond to questions raised there or subsequently by members of the LLC. Any other person wishing to inquire about matters covered by this report should contact the HSE, Nuclear Directorate on 0151 951 3484/3290. This report will be put onto the HSE Website at http://www.hse.gov.uk/nuclear/llc/2006/index.htm

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Inspections

The site was visited by NII inspectors on :-

• July 14th, 27th
• August 11th
• September 8th, 26th

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Routine matters

Compliance with Conditions Attached to the Nuclear Site Licence

Each NII Site Inspector has an inspection programme to inspect compliance of operations on the site with the 36 Nuclear Site Licence Conditions (LCs). During this quarter particular attention has been paid to compliance by the licensee to licence conditions :-

• LC 11 Emergency Arrangements
• LC 24 Operating Instructions
• LC 25 Operational Records

No issues were raised from the compliance inspections undertaken during this period that required formal regulatory action.

UCL LC25 “Operational Records” Arrangements Inspection

The inspection concluded that overall the top tier UCL LC25 arrangements appeared to cover the majority of required elements outlined in the NII LC25 Inspection Guidance Document. However UCL accepted that there were a number of areas that could be improved and they will be considered in the forthcoming review of the UCL LC25 arrangements. The implementation of the LC25 arrangements within the various Operational Units across the site will be investigated during future NII site inspection visits.

UCL LC24 “Operating Instructions” Arrangements Inspection

Further inspections of the UCL arrangements for LC24 and their implementation at various operational plants were carried out. These inspections confirmed many of the findings of the previous LC24 inspections carried out during the previous report period. UCL agreed to reflect on the comments and observations made by NII during the inspections within their programmed review of their LC24 arrangements including the requirement to sustain a programme for a periodic review of the instructions.

UCL LC Compliance Arrangements Documents

Discussions were held with UCL regarding the findings from a number of recent NII inspections that the UCL Licence Compliance documentation had not been reviewed by the stated review date. The UCL programme for revising the UCL NSL Compliance Arrangements and Statements had indicated that all 36 LC compliance documents should have been completed by May 05. UCL accepted that the programme had slipped but demonstrated that over 25 of the documents had been issued and implemented. Recent inspections indicating “out of ticket” arrangements had unfortunately selected some of the small number of Licence Conditions for which the arrangements had still to be updated/reviewed. UCL agreed to provide to NII an updated position statement on the UCL Licence Compliance documentation review and the programme to complete these reviews.

“Criticality Lockets” processing Emergency Exercise

A meeting was held with UCL and BNGSL Capenhurst to outline NII plans for a forthcoming “unannounced” emergency exercise, to test the arrangements for processing the ‘criticality belts’. The objective of this exercise is for the licensee and relevant Approved Dosimetry Service (ADS) (Sellafield-Westlakes) to provide a full demonstration of their arrangements for the collection, segregation and measurement of special accident criticality dosimetry (“criticality belts”), the subsequent dose assessment and the timely provision of relevant dose information to the employer. It is proposed that the demonstration exercise will be carried out in real time and it is anticipated that parts of the demonstration will extend outside normal working hours, because of the transit time between Capenhurst and Sellafield.

Other Meetings

• Emergency Exercises Topics - A meeting was held to discuss various matters relating to the emergency exercise programme on the UCL Site including the outstanding actions from the most recent UCL demonstration exercises ie “Ibis” & ”Nightingale”.
• Emergency Planning Consultative Committee (EPCC) Meeting - The latest meeting of the Capenhurst EPCC was attended. Topics discussed at the meeting included the outstanding Level 2 Emergency Exercise “Eagle” Actions, the transfer of the TENEX Emergency Plan to the Manchester Ship Canal, the findings from the UCL Public Information Effectiveness Survey findings and the required changes to the Offsite Plan.
• Fire & Rescue Service (F&RS) Management of Change Proposals - Further discussions were held updating NII on the latest position on the UCL proposals to change aspects of the UCL FR&S operational arrangements. UCL had previously informed NII that they were planning to utilise some of the FR&S team staff to carry out limited support work for operational units.
• UCL Projects Update - During the period UCL has updated NII on the future programme of major projects at UCL. Projects discussed included the Tails Management Facility, the new Storage Rafts, the Container Receipt & Dispatch Building extension, the E23H&J extensions, the Site Alarm Improvement project and the new Central Waste Handling Plant.
• Close out of Department for Transport (DfT)/NII Transport Inspection Issues - A final close out meeting on the actions arising from the joint NII/DfT inspection of aspects of the UCL transport arrangements was held. Overall it was considered that the original 10 issues could be closed out. The small number of outstanding actions will be progressed via the UCL/NII actions database review process.

Miscellaneous Plant Visits

During the report period a number of visits to plants across the site were undertaken including –

• Site Familiarisation Visits - To facilitate the familiarisation process for the new NII Superintending Inspector for the UCL site visits were undertaken to a number of facilities.
• C16 Visit - A tour of the “old” Chemistry Services Laboratories was undertaken to observe the work being undertaken to transfer the equipment to the new laboratory building. One issue for the decommissioning of the old facilities is the decommissioning of the old effluent pits.
• B240 Visit - Following the visit to the old laboratory building a visit to the new B240 facility was undertaken. At the time of the visit the labs were fully fitted out and the staff were transferring the laboratory equipment. The plant room building for the new labs was also visited.

Miscellaneous Matters

During the report period a number of miscellaneous topics were discussed with UCL including the –

• impact of the High Activity Sealed Sources (HASS) Regulations at UCL,
• review of the UCL/NII Action Database Listing,
• UCL Seismic Hazard Assessment Methodology
• UCL 2006 Annual Review of Safety (AROS) Meeting
• NII approval of the UCL Nuclear Safety Committee Terms of Reference and Urgent Safety Proposals procedures,

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Non-routine matters

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Regulatory activity

Regulatory Actions taken during the quarter –

Date	Description
	None

The Inspectorate has powers under the licence to issue Consents, Approvals and Directions. In addition, the Inspectorate uses Licence Instruments to issue Specifications, Acknowledgements and Agreements under either the conditions attached to the Licence, or arrangements made by UCL for complying with those conditions. The Consents/Approvals/Directions and Licence Instruments issued during the quarter were

Date	Type	No	Description
	None

I.K. GIBSON
HM Principal Inspector (Nuclear Installations)

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