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 Berkeley Nuclear Licensed Site (BNLS) Site Stakeholder Group (SSG) and covers activities associated with the regulation of safety at BNLS. These reports are distributed quarterly and are available also from the Internet at http://www.hse.gov.uk/nuclear/index.htm . Site Inspectors of HM Nuclear Installations Inspectorate attend SSG meetings and will 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 on 0151-951-3484.
Nuclear Directorate
Health and Safety Executive
Redgrave Court
Merton Road
Bootle
Merseyside
L20 7HS
1. Berkeley was visited for routine inspections and meetings once during this quarter. The visit was made on the following dates:
This was the first visit of the new NII Site Inspector and was mainly introductory.
2. Compliance Inspections: Routine inspections are undertaken for the purpose of monitoring compliance with (i) the conditions attached by HSE to the nuclear site licences, and (ii) other relevant provisions of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, including the Ionising Radiations Regulations 1999.
3. In this period routine inspections covered:
4. NDA's competition strategy called for Magnox Electric Limited to be split into two Site Licence Companies: Magnox North Limited and Magnox South Limited. This split took place on 1 October 2008, when Magnox North Limited became the nuclear site licence holder for Chapelcross, Hunterston A, Oldbury, Trawsfynydd and Wylfa and Magnox South Limited became the nuclear site licence holder for Berkeley, Bradwell, Dungeness A, Hinkley Point A and Sizewell A.
5. To achieve this split HSE has been working closely with Magnox Electric Limited, NDA, other Government Departments and other regulators (particularly EA and SEPA) for over two years. The project has delivered improvements in a number of areas.
6. One of these improvements is that each site, including Berkeley, has had to develop new arrangements to control its decommissioning programme. These give HSE greater regulatory control over changes to the programme where they have a significant impact on hazard reduction on site. For the most significant proposed programme changes the site will have to send a formal submission to NII providing a full safety justification for the proposed change and then will not be able to alter the programme until HSE has provided a formal permission.
7. Berkeley Site issued their Periodic Review of Safety. The report has identified a number of areas where improvements are planned to help assure the safety of the plant over the next 10 years.
8. Licence Instruments The Inspectorate has powers under the Nuclear Site Licence to issue Consents, Approvals and Directions. In addition, the Inspectorate uses Licence Instruments to issue Specifications and Agreements under the conditions attached to the Licence.
The following Instruments were issued this quarter