October 17, 2023 - Executive summary Date(s) of inspection: August 2023 Aim of inspection The LC7 inspection is scheduled as part of ONR’s integrated inspection (IIS) plan and will be focused on recent incidents on station. The inspection will sample how station implement their arrangements for notification, recording, investigation, and reporting of incidents which occur on station. A progress […]
October 13, 2023 - Executive summary Date(s) of inspection: July 2023 Aim of inspection The aim of this inspection is to; To provide regulatory confidence in the implementation of the LC22 Offload Depressurised Refuelling (ODR) arrangements and sample the future plans following the decision that station will not be returning to Low Power Refuelling (LPR). To sample the adequacy […]
October 13, 2023 - Executive summary Date(s) of inspection: June 2023 Aim of inspection The aim of the intervention is to inspect compliance with site Licence Conditions 27 and 28 at EDF Energy Nuclear Generation Ltd’s Torness power station. The inspection is in accordance with ONR’s integrated intervention strategy for the site. ONR technical inspection guide NS-INSP-GD-027 (Safety Mechanisms, […]
October 13, 2023 - Executive summary Date(s) of inspection: May 2023 Aim of inspection The aim of this inspection was to undertake a planned fire SBI at Torness (TOR) to determine the adequacy of implementation of the Licensee’s claims associated with the fire detection, suppression and protection system to ensure fire (conventional and nuclear) risks are reduced as low […]
June 20, 2023 - Executive summary Date(s) of inspection: April 2023 Aim of inspection The aim of these interventions at EDF Energy Nuclear Generation Ltd’s (NGL) Torness power station are to observe a ‘Level 1’ emergency exercise to ensure Licence Condition (LC)11 arrangements are adequately implemented. The EDF NGL Torness’s Annual Review of Safety, Security and Environment (ARoS) will […]
May 15, 2023 - Executive summary Date(s) of inspection: January 2023 Aim of inspection System based inspections (SBIs) are an essential element of ONR’s overall intervention on a nuclear site and consist of a series of inspections which are intended to establish that the basic elements of a site/facility safety case as implemented in Safety Systems, Structures and Components […]
May 11, 2023 - Executive summary Date(s) of inspection: October 2022 Aim of inspection This themed inspection is based on intelligence gathered which has identified a number of fleet wide shortfalls relating to configuration control. This includes a broad range of INF1 reportable incidents to ONR where configuration control has been identified as an apparent or contributory cause. The […]
May 11, 2023 - Executive summary Date(s) of inspection: October 2022 Aim of inspection To observe an important aspect of emergency response training at Torness, the nominated site inspectors for Torness and Heysham2 observed a shift (training) emergency exercise at Torness with a colleague, The scenario was provided in advance. The reason for observing this shift exercise was to […]
April 28, 2023 - Executive summary Date(s) of inspection: February 2023 Aim of inspection The purpose of these interventions is to monitor progress against the close out of Improvement Notices ONR-22-IN-008 (AWG Training Ltd) and ONR-IN-009 (EDF NGL Torness) both associated with contraventions of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, Regulation 3(1). Two inspections will […]