November 27, 2023 - Executive summary Date(s) of inspection: September 2023 Aim of inspection In accordance with the Office for Nuclear Regulation’s (ONR’s) Sellafield Strategy, each year ONR performs a series of planned inspections to seek assurance of compliance against selected licence conditions, targeted at those facilities with significant importance to nuclear safety. One such inspection was undertaken at Special […]
November 24, 2023 - ‘It’s rewarding to be protecting the public and the environment’
November 7, 2023 - Executive summary Date(s) of inspection: May 2023 Aim of inspection The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) regulates Sellafield Site in accordance with the ONR Sellafield strategy. One of the three key outcomes of the strategy is accelerated hazard and risk reduction (HRR) across the Sellafield site, targeting those projects that deliver the biggest HRR. One […]
November 7, 2023 - Executive summary Date(s) of inspection: September 2023 Aim of inspection This inspection at Sellafield Ltd will be undertaken as part of the planned Integrated Intervention Strategy (IIS) for the Sellafield, Decommissioning, Fuel and Waste Division (SDFW) of the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR). The purpose of this intervention will be to inspect against compliance with […]
November 7, 2023 - Executive summary Date(s) of inspection: July 2023 Aim of inspection To undertake compliance inspections against LC10 and 26 post the start of retrievals from Compartment 5 of PFCS Subject(s) of inspection LC10 – Training – Rating: Green LC26 – Control and supervision of operations – Rating: Green Key findings, inspector’s opinions and reasons for judgement […]
November 7, 2023 - Executive summary Date(s) of inspection: September 2023 Aim of inspection The purpose of this inspection was to sample evidence of implementation of the Sellafield Limited arrangements for compliance with Licence Condition (LC) 11, specifically within the HAL Plants, in order to inform a regulatory judgement regarding the licensee’s compliance with its legal duties under the […]
October 17, 2023 - Executive summary Date(s) of inspection: July 2023 Aim of inspection The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) undertakes all its regulatory interactions with the Sellafield site licensee, Sellafield Limited, against a strategy defined by the ONR Sellafield, Decommissioning, Fuel and Waste (SDFW) Division. In accordance with this strategy, this was a planned Corporate Licence Condition Inspection […]
October 17, 2023 - Executive summary Date(s) of inspection: August 2023 Aim of inspection To gain assurance that Spent Fuel Services is compliant with Sellafield’s arrangements for Licence Condition 25 (Operational records). The intervention was justified in the ONR Spent Fuel Services Justification Document (2022/64238) and supports the ONR Sellafield Decommissioning, Fuel and Waste Advanced Gas Reactor Operating Programme […]
October 17, 2023 - Executive summary Date(s) of inspection: July 2023 Aim of inspection The purpose of this inspection was to seek evidence in support of Sellafield Ltd.’s compliance with The Nuclear Safeguards (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (NSR19). The purpose of an accountancy focussed inspection is to: examine operating and accounting records to establish a correct set of data and […]